Featured ACO Articles

11. Using A Healthy EHR Core To Form A Successful ACO 12/30/2014

    Coastal Carolina Health Care (CCHC) successfully uses Allscripts TouchWorks® EHR as a core solution for its practice and Accountable Care Organization (ACO), Coastal Carolina Quality Care, Inc. The solution’s robust reporting capabilities helped CCHC successfully attest for Meaningful Use Stage 2, provide comprehensive preventative care for patients and reduce the number of emergency room (ER) visits and hospital readmissions.

12. 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.

13. 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
14. Enhance The Quality Of Care, While Reducing Costs 9/6/2012

    Read this analyst white paper, Sophisticated Solutions to Optimize Healthcare Delivery, and see how enterprise content management solutions can enable your organization to optimize patient care, reduce the cost of healthcare, and improve clinician satisfaction and overall organizational productivity.

15. 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).

16. 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.

17. Cost Fears Not Slowing Wireless Growth In Healthcare 10/9/2012

    As healthcare organizations develop strategies to comply with federal mandates and succeed in the new environment, wireless is one of the emerging technologies that can enable organizations to meet their clinical and business objectives, especially in this era of having to do more with a finite set of resources.

18. 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.
19. 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."

20. 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.