ACO Top Content

11. Guest Column: Prepare For The New Patient Influx 5/28/2010
    It is already difficult for some of us to find a primary care physician. So how can our country accommodate an influx 32 million newly insured patients under healthcare reform when the system is already overburdened? The fact that only 4% of new doctors choose to become primary care physicians each year suggests the problem will only get worse.
12. EHNAC Releases ACO Accreditation Draft Criteria For Public Comments 10/29/2014

    Criteria released for public review for EHNAC’s Accountable Care Organization Accreditation Program. By Christine Kern, contributing writer

13. ACO Initiative Advances Patient Care Services 7/28/2014

    Arizona’s healthcare system shifts from volume based care to a model that rewards quality and value. By Karla Paris, contributing writer

14. 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

15. 6 Wisconsin Healthcare Systems Announce Move Towards ACO 8/12/2014

    The partnership was developed to build upon and advance the clinical quality, efficiency and customer experience attributes that are well-documented and shared among the six organizations. By Christine Kern, contributing writer

16. Health Care System Experiences Encouraging ACO Results 4/9/2014

    Advocate Health sees progress with ACO” through failure, experimentation and adaptation”. By Christine Kern, contributing writer

17. ACO Growth Indicates Expanding Need For Evidence-Based Decision Support Tools 12/12/2016

    If the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations (NAACOS) Fall Conference is any indication of the growth of the value-based care movement, then one fact is certain: it is not slowing down any time soon. The first NAACOS conference in 2012 had 123 attendees; 2016 had 670. By Joe Guerriero, senior vice president of MDGuidelines, ReedGroup

18. From Milk Crates To Mobile IT: Hospice Improves Access To Patient Records On The Go 1/29/2013

    Employees on the go know that handling documents in the field can be a difficult task – and perhaps no workforce knows this better than hospice caregivers. Hospice workers are road warriors who are constantly on the go to see patients in their homes, a job description that seemingly requires mobile technology.

19. Privacy, Security, HIPAA Compliance And A $5 Billion Crime Scheme 10/17/2014

    Utter the acronym HIPAA to people in the medical profession and you will get a variety of facial responses, none of which have been, in my experience, a smile of contentment. Indeed, HIPAA’s privacy and security rules are often grumbled about as being burdensome and restrictive. The rules are increasingly criticized as ineffective these days and people are asking: How can an entity be HIPAA compliant and still suffer a breach of protected health information? By Stephen Cobb, Senior Security Researcher, ESET

20. Guest Column: Providers' Perceptions: A Conversation With WellStar's Ron 2/1/2011
    WellStar senior VP and CIO, Ron Strachan discusses the IT turnaround he has initiated during his tenure, and his facilities' path to Meaningful Use, Health Information Exchange, and Accountable Care Organizations. By Ron Strachan, senior VP and CIO, WellStar