Featured ACO Articles
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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.
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Using mHealth To Work Smarter
12/1/2011
A widely used term in the rapidly changing world of mobile technologies for healthcare is mHealth.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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St. John Medical Center Uses A Team Approach To Ensure Successful Implementation Of New Electronic Health Record Initiative
4/10/2013
As new value-based payment models emerge in the healthcare industry, hospitals that demonstrate high-quality, efficient patient care will have a distinct advantage over those organizations that remain mired in unwarranted variation in care processes, unnecessary and duplicative tests, and an inability to coordinate care.
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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.
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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).