Featured ACO Articles

  1. 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.

  2. Leveraging Big Data And Analytics In Healthcare 11/21/2012

    With the cost of mapping an individual human genome poised to break the $1,000 barrier – bringing personalized medicine closer to reality – the healthcare and life sciences industries are now grappling with managing the explosive growth of data.

  3. 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.

  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group Reduces Transcription Costs By 90%, Increases EHR Adoption 4/16/2012

    With 400 physicians and 1,700 staff members, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group is one of the largest, most comprehensive medical groups in San DiegoCounty. Each of the group’s 19 locations offers primary and specialty care, laboratory, physical therapy, radiology, pharmacy and urgent care services.

  7. Reduce Readmissions By Automating Post-Discharge Care 12/12/2011
    This white paper is aimed at helping facilities understand ways to eliminate systemic failures that begin in the hospital and then persist through fragmented healthcare settings.
  8. Physicians Expand Practice Through New EMR 6/5/2012

    This case study outlines how one specialty practice used a new EMR, coupled with mobile access, to expand the practice and also recapture more personal, family time.

  9. PrimeSUITE Custom Templating And Usability Lead To Nation's First Private Practice Designation As Joint Commission Center Of Excellence 8/22/2012

    This success story from Greenway focuses on Dr. G. Edward Newman and his vision of a comprehensive, 21st century medical practice.

  10. PQRS Initiative Yields $70,000 ROI For Clinic 2/28/2012
    In this case study, find out how Birmingham Heart Clinic was able to boost charge capture, per-provider income, and patient visits within the first 12 months of deploying integrated HER, practice management, and interoperability solution.