ACO Top Content
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Charting A Course For Patient Safety
3/12/2014
Ten percent of diagnoses are wrong, delayed, or missed. What can be done to correct this problem and save the 40,000 or more lives that are lost each year as a result? By Melissa Cole, BSN, MSW, FACHE
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Loss Of Medicare Bonus Drive Healthcare System To Leave Pioneer ACO
10/16/2014
Franciscan St. Francis Health of Indiana evaluating ACO participation in light of failure to earn Medicare bonus. By Karla Paris, contributing writer
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How Will Obamacare Affect Private Practice?
2/11/2014
Ask a room full of doctors about what Obamacare will do to the private practice and brace yourself for a flurry of opinions. Some believe the Affordable Care Act is absolutely necessary to rein in a healthcare system run rampant for far too long. Others see the significant changes coming for healthcare as a shot in the dark that will do much more harm than good. In the sea of all the opinions, only one thing is absolutely certain: Big changes are coming. By Shannon Dauphin Lee
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EMRs Don't Meet ACO Needs
5/14/2014
A new KLAS report examines the physician-led ACO segment. By Christine Kern, contributing writer
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Start To Second Enrollment Period Draws Mixed Reviews
11/18/2014
Despite several bumps in the road, most feel the start to the second round of sign-up for Obamacare has gone well. By John Oncea, editor
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Ensure Compliance During ICD-10 Transition
11/21/2013
Implementation of Health Language solution expected to assist SummaCare in transitioning to ICD-10 By Wendy Grafius, contributing writer
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Blue Button Important For MU Stage 2
10/1/2013
ONC is increasing its push for Blue Button, hailing it as the key to patient and provider engagement By Greg Bengel, contributing writer
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Loma Linda University Health Prepares For Mobility Through Culture Change
11/1/2013
Is your organization’s culture preventing more efficient processes? Many healthcare organizations have embraced the idea of digitizing records, yet despite ongoing new compliance and regulation mandates, and emerging technology for electronic health records, many have a culture that impedes process efficiency. Loma Linda University Health (LLUH) was one organization that realized it needed a culture change. Many of its departments preferred manual processes because it was comfortable for them. But when they experienced firsthand how much time and effort automating processes could save, they understood how that translated into better service for students and patients, and became champions for change. By David Lewis, VP of product marketing, Kofax
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2015 Health IT Change Agents
9/29/2015
Our inaugural class of Health IT Change Agents set a high bar, but this year’s class can more than hold its own when it comes to driving positive change and advancing health IT.
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ICD-10 Preparation Still Lagging
1/3/2014
Survey reveals providers making little headway in preparing for October’s ICD-10 transition By Katie Wike, contributing writer