Featured ACO Articles

  1. From Customization To Collaboration: Matching Mobile Devices To Clinicians’ Workflow 8/29/2012

    This white paper from Intel discusses mobility in the healthcare industry and selecting the right mobile solution.

  2. Accountable Care Trends, Strategies, And Best Practices 11/30/2012

    Movement within the nation’s healthcare system has been swift and broad-­‐based since the October 2011 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Shared Savings Final Rule.

  3. 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.

  4. Cost Fears Not Slowing Wireless Growth In Healthcare 10/9/2012

    As healthcare organizations develop strategies to comply with federal mandates and succeed in the new environment, wireless is one of the emerging technologies that can enable organizations to meet their clinical and business objectives, especially in this era of having to do more with a finite set of resources.

  5. 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).

  6. 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
  7. 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.

  8. The Direct Evolution: Why It Will Change How You Communicate 5/1/2013

    What is Direct? Does it replace a HIE? Is it redundant with HL7 or XDS functionality? If I use email rather than Direct am I out of compliance with HIPAA?

  9. Using mHealth To Work Smarter 12/1/2011
    A widely used term in the rapidly changing world of mobile technologies for healthcare is mHealth.
  10. Managing Healthcare Data Within The Ecosystem While Reducing IT Costs And Complexities 6/27/2012

    At the 2011 conference, EMC's team of healthcare solution specialists spoke with several vendors and conferees and asked one question: "What is the best way to reduce costs and complexity in a healthcare IT infrastructure?" The overwhelming answer was to enable a cloud environment for patient data and to find a solution for managing so-called "big data."