Featured ACO Articles
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How To Get Paid For Meaningful Use: 7 Tips From The EHR Trenches
8/10/2012
In this white paper athenahealth provides tips to make sure your practice will receive its incentive payment for implementing a system compliant with Stage 1 Meaningful Use (MU).
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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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The Promise Of Mobile Technology
11/21/2012
Unlike information technology preceding it, mobile technology’s adoption in healthcare has been rapid and broad. According to CompTIA, 81 percent of U.S. physicians use a smartphone in their work environment.
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Using mHealth To Work Smarter
12/1/2011
A widely used term in the rapidly changing world of mobile technologies for healthcare is mHealth.
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Achieving Success With The 5010 / ICD-10 Change-Over
2/8/2012
SuccessEHS is a nationally acclaimed vendor providing Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management solutions with Integrated Medical Billing Services.
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ACO Efficiently Manages Population Health With The Help Of Gateway EDI
10/2/2012
With a local network currently uniting more than 150 providers and 250,000 patients, United Medical is well on its way to changing the health care landscape in Delaware.
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What You Need To Know In Replacing An EHR
11/5/2011
This independent mixed case study and white paper performed at the request of Greenway Medical Technologies provides an independent in-depth analysis of how Greenway’s services, solutions, and technology are helping medical practices undergo EMR-to-EHR conversions.
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How Is Clinical Decision Support Technology Driving Successful ACOs?
12/8/2014
The movement to enhance and streamline healthcare through accountable care organizations (ACOs) is well underway in the wake of the issuance of final rules by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in October 2011. Designed as patient-centered initiatives that help doctors, hospitals and other healthcare organizations better coordinate patient care, ACOs are fundamentally structured to incentivize participating healthcare groups for achieving an aggressive set of cost and quality measures built upon improved communication, data sharing and decision making.
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Emerson Hospital Reduces Transcription TAT From Days To Hours, Lowers Costs By 50%
4/16/2012
Established in 1911, Emerson Hospital is a fullservice medical center situated in Concord, MA. A 179-bed facility staffed by 300 physicians, Emerson combines a human touch with state-of the- art technology—including top-flight medical transcription.
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Even A 60-Year-Old Multi-Specialty Practice Can Succeed With EHR
6/1/2012
After 60+ years in operation, The Veranda multi-specialty practice wanted a solution that would include an integrated electronic health record (EHR)/practice management (PM) solution, as well as one that could support multiple specialties as the practice considered growing outside of its OB/GYN roots.