Featured ACO Articles
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Drive Care Coordination With Secure, Mobile Healthcare Solutions
1/10/2012
To examine how mobile point of care (MPOC) can positively impact the quality and cost of healthcare, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Mark Blatt, MD, worldwide medical director at Intel, explores the ways in which mobile point of care coordination across the care continuum enhances care quality measures. It also addresses how industry leaders ensure privacy and security within the mobile environment without hindering clinician productivity.
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Brigham And Women’s Hospital Saves Over $9M, Improves MT Productivity 123%
4/16/2012
A 730-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners Healthcare System, Brigham and Women’s Hospital is a world leader in patient care and research. The organization wanted to upgrade its existing transcription process to eliminate multiple medical transcription serviceorganizations (MTSOs) contracts and to address increasingly complex technical and billing infrastructures. The expensive, slow system hampered clinicians’ ability to maximize use of transcribed reports to diagnose and plan patient care.
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Balancing The Scales: Selecting The Right EHR For The Life Of Your Practice And Your Patients
3/25/2013
If we are at or approaching a technological tipping point in the history of healthcare, then it has never been more important for physician practices to select the right electronic health record (EHR) – and there are tangible reasons to believe so.
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White Paper: Becoming A Medical Home
12/16/2010
Transforming your practice into a medical home won’t require a down payment on new space – nor a remodel of the reception area. By Sage
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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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Case Study: Multi-Specialty Practice Cuts Costs With EHR
8/2/2010
This case study highlights how Florida Medical Clinic utilized an integrated EHR and practice management solution to reduce annual transcription costs by nearly $1 million and decrease accounts receivable to 27 days. By Sage Software
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Physicians Expand Practice Through New EMR
6/5/2012
This case study outlines how one specialty practice used a new EMR, coupled with mobile access, to expand the practice and also recapture more personal, family time.
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Enabling Collaborative Healthcare Delivery: Care Coordination Strategies With 21st Century Technology
11/9/2011
In 2003, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified care coordination as one of its 20 national priorities for quality. Since then, other prominent organizations, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Commonwealth Fund, the National Quality Forum, and the World Health Organization, have recognized care coordination as a key component for improving healthcare delivery. By Intel
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EHR Solution Addresses Quality And Operational Issues At Women’s Healthcare Of Illinois
10/15/2012
This case study from Greenway takes a look at Women’s Healthcare of Illinois, a two-location provider in the Chicago area, providing an array of advanced female medical services. Women’s Healthcare is currently experiencing a number of quality and operational issues that it wanted to address, all of which involved a move from paper charts to electronic health records (EHRs).
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Providing Accountability: Accountable Care Concepts For Healthcare Providers
4/5/2011
Healthcare expenditures in the United States totaled $2.5 trillion in 2009. Researchers estimate as much as 30 percent of those costs, or $750 billion, may have been due to overuse, underuse, misuse, and/or inefficiencies of healthcare services. By RelayHealth