Featured ACO Articles

1. Improving Quality And Reducing Costs In A Medicare Shared Savings Program And ACO Environment 4/16/2014

   Over the past decade, the healthcare system in the United States has been increasingly encumbered by an aging population, the burden of chronic disease, and economic pressures. In response to this confluence of events, federal healthcare reform has stimulated the public and private sectors to bend the cost curve and improve performance.

2. An Israeli Model For Coordinated Care 4/5/2012
   This white paper illustrates how Maccabi Healthcare Services, the second largest health maintenance organization in Israel, aligned the proper incentives, processes, and IT assets to deliver coordinated care to more than 1.9 million members.
3. UC Health Reduces Transcription Turnaround Time By 66%, Dramatically Reduces Costs 4/16/2012

   In 2001, the corporate transcription department of UC Health (formerly Health Alliance) in Cincinnati, Ohio was drowning from an increased volume of medical transcription. In particular, an increase in Emergency Department dictations added to an already heavy workload.

4. ACO Represents A Business Shift For Most Hospitals And Physicians 5/1/2012

   This white paper examines how the ACO (Accountable Care Organization) model can impact both hospitals and physicians, and highlights several specific points providers should consider and understand.

5. Is The U.S. Ahead Of The Connected Healthcare Curve? 5/29/2012

   In the United States, more patients can access their health records online than in many other countries. Does this mean that we are ahead of the connected healthcare curve? This study helps to shed some light on the subject.

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. Accountable Care Organization Technology Framework 2/20/2014

   The “accountable care organization” (ACO) is a major topic of discussion in American health policy. While the ACO label has been around since 2006, it was mentioned in numerous healthcare reform bills proposed in 2009 and was ultimately included in Section 3022 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) as the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The ACA’s ACO provision covers Medicare ACOs.

8. 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.

9. Where Information And Care Meet: Secure Mobile Healthcare Solutions That Drive Care Coordination 11/10/2011
   Mobile technology has long reached critical mass in the United States. Four of five American adults, or 83 percent, own some kind of cell phone, according to the August 2011 report, Americans and Their Cell Phones, by the Pew Research Center’s Pew Internet and American Life Project.
10. Using mHealth To Work Smarter 12/1/2011
    A widely used term in the rapidly changing world of mobile technologies for healthcare is mHealth.