ACO Top Content
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A New Model Of Physician Employment Emerges
10/10/2011
Most Baby Boomers in the United States came of age in an era of healthcare when it was not uncommon for physicians to own their own practices, work long hours and treat their patients—often singlehandedly—from birth into adulthood. That time has passed. The implications of this trend go well beyond the physicians and hospitals—and patients—themselves. By Andrew A. Ziskind, Kristin L. Ficery and Richard N. Fu
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Cloud Technology Can Reduce HIPAA Breach Risks
9/13/2013
While many providers worry that cloud technology puts their data at risk, it may actually be ideal for safeguarding protected health information from HIPAA breach risks By Greg Bengel, contributing writer
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7 Cyber Issue Trends You Need To Pay Attention To
12/19/2013
A forecast from a risk mitigation and response solution company identifies seven trends that need to addressed as we enter 2014 By John Oncea, editor, Health IT Outcomes
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How To Avoid Health Data Breaches
9/27/2013
Health data breaches have become epidemic - experts offered up their advice on how to best avoid them By Katie Wike, contributing writer
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Mostashari’s Health IT Vision
4/29/2011
In this Q&A, Health IT Outcomes gets the newly appointed National Coordinator of Health IT’s take on EHR effectiveness, troubling EHR research, and ensuring patient privacy in an electronic world.
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New Population Health Decision System For ACOs Uncovers The Hidden Risks
3/10/2016
One of the biggest challenges for Accountable Care Organizations is effective deployment of patient care resources. To succeed requires an in-depth understanding of patient risk, which is often difficult to assess. The reason for this is that most risk analysis systems rely on claims data, which can only tell who, in the past, has been a high-use patient. What that data can’t do is tell you who is on the verge of developing a serious condition.
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Providers Get Serious About PHI
1/29/2013
With all the talk about ensuring the security of PHI (protected health information) in the EHR era, 2012 was still a year riddled with health data breaches. As a matter of fact, one of the largest data breaches ever recorded by the HHS occurred last year when a server at the Utah Department of Health containing the PHI of some 780,000 patients was hacked.
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Majority Of Providers Unhappy With EHRs
11/22/2013
Survey shows 6 of 10 providers were not satisfied with the way EHRs affected daily workflow, citing loss of productivity and poor software design as major complaints By Katie Wike, contributing writer
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ACOs Will Double in 2014
1/2/2014
Accountable Care Organizations will double in 2014; providers developing core ACO capabilities, including partnerships with payers and employers By Katie Wike, contributing writer
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ACO Savings Spreading Through Healthcare System
9/18/2013
Money saved in multipayer systems like Accountable Care Organizations is creating “spillover savings” in the rest of the healthcare system By Katie Wike, contributing writer