ACO News
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MEDSEEK Unveils New Influence Platform Capabilities At HIMSS 2013
3/4/2013
MEDSEEK announced recently that it is expanding the capabilities of its MEDSEEK Influence platform to help healthcare organizations move beyond patient engagement to influence—giving organizations the power to strategically guide patient decisions and behaviors before and after a clinical encounter.
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Phytel's Population Health Management Solutions Receive Additional NCQA Prevalidation For Autocredit Toward PCMH 2011 Scoring
3/4/2013
Phytel, the leader in automated, provider-led population health improvement, announced recently that three of its solutions - Outreach, Insight, and Coordinate - have achieved prevalidation status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for autocredit toward 2011 patient-centered medical home (PCMH) criteria.
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Coastal Medical Selects eClinicalWorks CCMR For ACO Initiative
3/4/2013
eClinicalWorks, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, recently announces that Rhode Island’s Coastal Medical is expanding its relationship with the company to include eClinicalWorks Care Coordination Medical Record (CCMR) for advancing its Accountable Care Organization (ACO)-related objectives, coordinating care across the continuum as well as evaluating population health and quality improvement activities.
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Explorys Launches First Big Data-Powered Benchmarking Network To Prepare Leading Healthcare Systems For Value-Based Care Economy
3/4/2013
Explorys, the leader in big data-driven healthcare transformation, recently announced the release of its new National Benchmark offering, which provides comparative metrics across more than 92 billion clinical, financial, and operational data facts spanning the continuum of care for 13 integrated delivery networks, 120 hospitals, and over 100,000 providers providing over $30B in care annually across the United States.
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Virtua Selects Tribridge Consulting Services For Accountable Care Organization Initiative
3/1/2013
Tribridge, a leading U.S.-based IT services and business consulting firm, recently announced that Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua, the largest healthcare provider in southern New Jersey, has selected Tribridge consulting services to assist with administrative functions of its care coordination program, including its Accountable Care Organization (ACO).
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Memorial Hermann Reports Widespread Success With HealthPost Patient Booking Solution
2/28/2013
HealthPost Inc., a global search and booking platform that is reinventing access to healthcare across the broader ecosystem, announced recently that Memorial Hermann Health System, the largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas, has successfully booked tens of thousands of online appointments in its first year using HealthPost's enterprise search and booking platform.
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AMC Health Offers First Money-Back Guarantee To Reduce 30-Day Readmissions By Double Digits Within 90 Days
2/28/2013
AMC Health, a leading provider of telehealth solutions, recently announced that it will offer hospitals, health plans, accountable care organizations (ACOs), home health agencies and other customers a money-back guarantee on their multi-faceted program to reduce hospital readmissions for high-risk patients.
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St. Vincent's Health Partners, Inc. Selects McKesson To Help Reduce Risk And Drive Better Health
2/28/2013
St. Vincent’s Health Partners (SVHP), an independent physician-hospital organization (PHO), has chosen two new McKesson solutions to help its organization manage the health of high-risk populations in its southwest Connecticut community.
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Northeast Georgia Health System Chooses Paragon To Support Quest For Excellence Program
2/28/2013
Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) will make the move to McKesson’s Microsoft-based Paragon hospital information system (HIS) to support its ambitious Quest for Excellence program, aimed at driving process improvements and achieving better clinical, operational and financial outcomes.
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First Recipient Selected In McKesson $1M EHR Giveaway
2/27/2013
McKesson announced recently that the Bread of Healing Clinic of Milwaukee, Wis. is the first recipient of its McKesson Practice Choice electronic health record (EHR) software as part of the McKesson Gives Back initiative.