Featured ACO Articles

  1. White Paper: Becoming A Medical Home 12/16/2010
    Transforming your practice into a medical home won’t require a down payment on new space – nor a remodel of the reception area. By Sage
  2. 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.

  3. 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.
  4. Using mHealth To Work Smarter 12/1/2011
    A widely used term in the rapidly changing world of mobile technologies for healthcare is mHealth.
  5. 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.
  6. Advocated Illinois Cuts Its Transcription Costs 70%, Driving Further EHR Adoption 5/2/2012

    This case study describes how Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center saved more than 70% on outsourced transcription and more than 50% in net transcription costs within the first ten months of installation.

  7. 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.
  8. Case Study: Multi-Specialty Practice Cuts Costs With EHR 8/2/2010
    This case study highlights how Florida Medical Clinic utilized an integrated EHR and practice management solution to reduce annual transcription costs by nearly $1 million and decrease accounts receivable to 27 days. By Sage Software
  9. 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.

  10. Provider's Perceptions On Mobility In Healthcare 8/24/2011
    Porter Research and Billian’s HealthDATA have collaborated to bring you this primary market research program aimed at understanding healthcare providers’ perceptions regarding mobility in healthcare.