Featured ACO Articles
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Emerson Hospital Reduces Transcription TAT From Days To Hours, Lowers Costs By 50%
4/16/2012
Established in 1911, Emerson Hospital is a fullservice medical center situated in Concord, MA. A 179-bed facility staffed by 300 physicians, Emerson combines a human touch with state-of the- art technology—including top-flight medical transcription.
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One Practice’s Journey To Accountable Care
4/5/2012
This white paper chronicles how New Pueblo Medicine, an independent practice of seven internal medicine physicians based in Arizona, is delivering team-oriented, prevention-focused care with tighter coordination across the continuum of care, while responding to regulatory and compensation pressures and remaining a small independent practice.
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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.
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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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How To Get Paid For Meaningful Use: 7 Tips From The EHR Trenches
8/10/2012
In this white paper athenahealth provides tips to make sure your practice will receive its incentive payment for implementing a system compliant with Stage 1 Meaningful Use (MU).
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PrimeSUITE Implementation Boosts Important Metrics At Birmingham Heart Clinic
8/22/2012
This case study from Greenway covers the Birmingham Heart Clinic, a nine provider cardiology practice established in 1994, and how it was able to boost charge capture, pre-provider income, and patient visits during the inaugural deployment year of PrimeSUITE®.
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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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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).
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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.
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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.