Featured ACO Articles
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Keep Ahead Of The 5010 And ICD-10 Curve
5/1/2012
This paper examines the impact of the 5010 and ICD-10 initiatives from a strategic standpoint. The objective is to ensure compliance with federal regulations, while considering synergies around MU, business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPM) and resource maximization.
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ACO Represents A Business Shift For Most Hospitals And Physicians
5/1/2012
This white paper examines how the ACO (Accountable Care Organization) model can impact both hospitals and physicians, and highlights several specific points providers should consider and understand.
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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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Novant Health Reduces Transcription TAT From Days To Hours, Doubles MT Productivity
4/16/2012
Novant Health’s 1,117 physicians, 13 hospitals, and 360 clinic locations serve more than 3.5 million patients from Northern Virginia to Georgia. Efficient, accurate capture and transfer of information from more than 1,500 dictating clinicians enables award-winning levels of quality and care.
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EHR Helps Providers Serve The Underserved Patient Population
5/7/2012
The EHR system PrimaryPlus had been using for a number of years wasn’t meeting today’s challenges, let alone future ones regarding coordinated care, accountable care and other quality-based funding initiatives, an aging population, and developing ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 standards. It needed a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure that would support the health system’s continued growth.
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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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Improving Quality And Reducing Costs In A Medicare Shared Savings Program And ACO Environment
4/16/2014
Over the past decade, the healthcare system in the United States has been increasingly encumbered by an aging population, the burden of chronic disease, and economic pressures. In response to this confluence of events, federal healthcare reform has stimulated the public and private sectors to bend the cost curve and improve performance.
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IT Infrastructure: A Foundation For Accountable Care Organizations
8/11/2011
The advent of healthcare reform will require a health information technology infrastructure that integrates all the “moving parts” of an ACO, including hospitals, physicians, labs, outpatient centers, claims and analytics.
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PrimeSUITE ‘Absolutely Fantastic’ Solution For Solo Practitioner
8/22/2012
This success story from Greenway focuses on Vandna Jerath, MD, a solo practitioner operating Optima Women’s Healthcare which is a private practice in Parker, CO specializing in obstetrics, gynecology, infertility, urogynecology, and wellness.
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Accountable Care Trends, Strategies, And Best Practices
11/30/2012
Movement within the nation’s healthcare system has been swift and broad-‐based since the October 2011 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Shared Savings Final Rule.