Featured ACO Articles

  1. 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
  2. Swedish Reduces Transcription Costs, Achieves 100% Adoption Of EMR 10/23/2012

    This case study from Nuance takes a look at Swedish, the largest nonprofit healthcare provider in the greater Seattle Area. Swedish operates five hospital campuses, two ambulatory care centers with ERs, and a network of more than 100 specialty-care and primary care clinics.

  3. 10 Things You Need To Know About Accountable Care Organizations 11/22/2011

    Compared to a traditional fee-for-service model, a successful ACO will incentivize cooperation and will lower costs by encouraging quality care rather than generation of volume. This paper defines three different structures for ACOs: integrated, collective, and combination.

  4. Lakeshore Health Network Improves Clinical And Financial Outcomes With Wellcentive 1/30/2013

    The Wellcentive Advance healthcare intelligence platform has helped the Lakeshore Health Network (LHN) and its physicians implement a variety of Clinical Quality Improvement (CQI) programs and significantly improve its clinical and financial outcomes. The 350-member multispecialty Physician Hospital Organization (PHO) in Muskegon, Michigan has realized year-after-year improvements in preventive care and chronic disease management outcomes as a result of its use of Wellcentive’s solutions.

  5. Finding The ROI In Clinical IT Systems 10/25/2012

    Beacon Partners conducted this particular study in the summer of 2012 to analyze how hospitals and care delivery organizations are using clinical system performance measures as a way to calculate the return-on-investment (ROI) of electronic medical records (EMRs) systems.

  6. 7 Tips To Getting Paid For Meaningful Use 6/5/2012

    The clock is ticking down for physician practices looking to receive the full incentive for achieving Stage 1 Meaningful Use, but the tips in this white paper can help you get there before the deadline arrives.

  7. Advocated Illinois Cuts Its Transcription Costs 70%, Driving Further EHR Adoption 5/2/2012

    This case study describes how Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center saved more than 70% on outsourced transcription and more than 50% in net transcription costs within the first ten months of installation.

  8. 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.

  9. PrimeSUITE Implementation Boosts Important Metrics At Birmingham Heart Clinic 8/22/2012

    This case study from Greenway covers the Birmingham Heart Clinic, a nine provider cardiology practice established in 1994, and how it was able to boost charge capture, pre-provider income, and patient visits during the inaugural deployment year of PrimeSUITE®.

  10. PrimeSUITE Custom Templating And Usability Lead To Nation’s First Private Practice Designation As Joint Commission Center Of Excellence 8/22/2012

    This success story from Greenway focuses on Dr. G. Edward Newman and his vision of a comprehensive, 21st century medical practice.