Featured ACO Articles

1. Brigham And Women’s Hospital Saves Over $9M, Improves MT Productivity 123% 4/16/2012

    

   A 730-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners Healthcare System, Brigham and Women’s Hospital is a world leader in patient care and research. The organization wanted to upgrade its existing transcription process to eliminate multiple medical transcription service

   organizations (MTSOs) contracts and to address increasingly complex technical and billing infrastructures. The expensive, slow system hampered clinicians’ ability to maximize use of transcribed reports to diagnose and plan patient care.
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. Keep Ahead Of The 5010 And ICD-10 Curve 5/1/2012

   This paper examines the impact of the 5010 and ICD-10 initiatives from a strategic standpoint. The objective is to ensure compliance with federal regulations, while considering synergies around MU, business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPM) and resource maximization.

4. ACO’s: What The Henry Ford Physician Network Can Teach 10/10/2011
   Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are one of the most promising responses to healthcare reform. One of the best examples to date is the Henry Ford Physician Network in Michigan. Here’s how much the new group has achieved already—and a sense of how far it has to go.
5. White Paper: Transforming IT For Accountable Healthcare 5/5/2011
   This February 2011 white paper looks at the impact of ARRA and PPACA on provider organizations and the role IT can play in preparing healthcare providers for future success in the evolving landscape. An IDC Health Insights White Paper sponsored by HP
6. 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
7. 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.

8. What You Need To Know In Replacing An EHR 11/5/2011

   This independent mixed case study and white paper performed at the request of Greenway Medical Technologies provides an independent in-depth analysis of how Greenway’s services, solutions, and technology are helping medical practices undergo EMR-to-EHR conversions.

9. 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.

10. IT Infrastructure: A Foundation For Accountable Care Organizations 8/11/2011
    The advent of healthcare reform will require a health information technology infrastructure that integrates all the “moving parts” of an ACO, including hospitals, physicians, labs, outpatient centers, claims and analytics.