Featured ACO Articles
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The Direct Evolution: Why It Will Change How You Communicate
5/1/2013
What is Direct? Does it replace a HIE? Is it redundant with HL7 or XDS functionality? If I use email rather than Direct am I out of compliance with HIPAA?
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Enhance The Quality Of Care, While Reducing Costs
9/6/2012
Read this analyst white paper, Sophisticated Solutions to Optimize Healthcare Delivery, and see how enterprise content management solutions can enable your organization to optimize patient care, reduce the cost of healthcare, and improve clinician satisfaction and overall organizational productivity.
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The Path to Population Health Management: Creating An IT Foundation For A Successful ACO
10/22/2014
Healthcare organizations across the U.S. are investing significant resources in re-architecting their care delivery infrastructures to enable them to adapt successfully to new, value-based Accountable Care Organization (ACO) payment and delivery models. As these entities prepare to go “at risk” and take outcomes-based capitated or bundled payments, they face a broad set of challenges. These challenges range from acquiring or partnering for resources that will enable them to deliver and control the full continuum of care, to understanding their new cost structures and determining if they can survive and thrive financially in an ACO world.
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Reinventing Healthcare For The 21st Century
11/21/2012
Both developed and emerging countries face three global megatrends that will have a crippling impact on their economies and societies if not addressed in the near future.
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PQRS Initiative Yields $70,000 ROI For Clinic
2/28/2012
In this case study, find out how Birmingham Heart Clinic was able to boost charge capture, per-provider income, and patient visits within the first 12 months of deploying integrated HER, practice management, and interoperability solution.
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Five Steps To Building A Successful Health Information Exchange
8/11/2011
This white paper provides insider tips to creating an HIE that improves clinical integration; enhances patient safety; and achieves enterprise, community, and statewide healthcare connectivity.
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Intermountain Healthcare Saves $1.5M, Doubles MT Productivity
4/16/2012
The transcription group at Intermountain worked closely with its Nuance Healthcare implementation team to plan for the go-live. Together, they developed a strategy for a fast, successful enterprise-wide rollout. Following the implementation at the hospitals, the rollout to Intermountain’s 150 clinics began.
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Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group Reduces Transcription Costs By 90%, Increases EHR Adoption
4/16/2012
With 400 physicians and 1,700 staff members, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group is one of the largest, most comprehensive medical groups in San DiegoCounty. Each of the group’s 19 locations offers primary and specialty care, laboratory, physical therapy, radiology, pharmacy and urgent care services.
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White Paper: Healthcare Business Insights: Social Media Strategy For Healthcare Vendors
6/3/2011
This white paper outlines how vendors in the healthcare space are using social networking sites to take relationship building to the next level, resulting in increased qualified leads, and, ultimately, a greater return on marketing investment. By Jennifer Dennard
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Is The U.S. Ahead Of The Connected Healthcare Curve?
5/29/2012
In the United States, more patients can access their health records online than in many other countries. Does this mean that we are ahead of the connected healthcare curve? This study helps to shed some light on the subject.