Featured ACO Articles

1. 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®.

2. The New Model Of Health Information Exchange: Using Data And Analytics To Improve Health Care Delivery 8/16/2012

   This special report covers the uses for Electronic Health Records (EHRs) beyond just collecting, aggregating and reporting on data and demonstrating compliance with Meaningful Use (MU).

3. Five Steps To Building A Successful Health Information Exchange 8/11/2011
   This white paper provides insider tips to creating an HIE that improves clinical integration; enhances patient safety; and achieves enterprise, community, and statewide healthcare connectivity.
4. White Paper: Becoming A Medical Home 12/16/2010
   Transforming your practice into a medical home won’t require a down payment on new space – nor a remodel of the reception area. By Sage
5. White Paper: 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
6. Emerson Hospital Reduces Transcription TAT From Days To Hours, Lowers Costs By 50% 4/16/2012

   Established in 1911, Emerson Hospital is a fullservice medical center situated in Concord, MA. A 179-bed facility staffed by 300 physicians, Emerson combines a human touch with state-of the- art technology—including top-flight medical transcription.

7. 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.

8. Get The Most Out Of Going Mobile: Best Practices In mHealth Implementation 3/26/2013

   Our population is becoming more mobile on a daily basis, and healthcare professionals are no exception. In fact, the very nature of the healthcare industry makes it ripe for a move to mobile. It also presents special implementation challenges.

9. How Is Clinical Decision Support Technology Driving Successful ACOs? 12/8/2014

   The movement to enhance and streamline healthcare through accountable care organizations (ACOs) is well underway in the wake of the issuance of final rules by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in October 2011. Designed as patient-centered initiatives that help doctors, hospitals and other healthcare organizations better coordinate patient care, ACOs are fundamentally structured to incentivize participating healthcare groups for achieving an aggressive set of cost and quality measures built upon improved communication, data sharing and decision making.

10. ACO Efficiently Manages Population Health With The Help Of Gateway EDI 10/2/2012

    With a local network currently uniting more than 150 providers and 250,000 patients, United Medical is well on its way to changing the health care landscape in Delaware.