Featured ACO Articles

1. 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
2. Samsung Cloud Displays Unlock Efficiencies For Physicians And Accelerate EHR Adoption 5/6/2013

   Regulatory requirements and government incentives to improve healthcare quality and efficiency through information technology have prompted healthcare providers to focus on achieving faster EHR adoption by implementing a virtual environment. However, for programs to be successful, the virtual solutions need to help make the work of physicians easier and more productive, while maintaining the reliability and security of patient data.

3. 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?

4. Using mHealth To Work Smarter 12/1/2011
   A widely used term in the rapidly changing world of mobile technologies for healthcare is mHealth.
5. 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."

6. ACO: The Next Big Shift For Healthcare Organizations 3/30/2012
   This white paper shares the findings of recent research that assesses the understanding and preparation levels for developing an ACO among healthcare organizations.
7. 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.

8. 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.
9. Balancing The Scales: Selecting The Right EHR For The Life Of Your Practice And Your Patients 3/25/2013

   If we are at or approaching a technological tipping point in the history of healthcare, then it has never been more important for physician practices to select the right electronic health record (EHR) – and there are tangible reasons to believe so.

10. Novant Health Reduces Transcription TAT From Days To Hours, Doubles MT Productivity 4/16/2012

    Novant Health’s 1,117 physicians, 13 hospitals, and 360 clinic locations serve more than 3.5 million patients from Northern Virginia to Georgia. Efficient, accurate capture and transfer of information from more than 1,500 dictating clinicians enables award-winning levels of quality and care.