Featured ACO Articles
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7 Tips To Getting Paid For Meaningful Use
6/5/2012
The clock is ticking down for physician practices looking to receive the full incentive for achieving Stage 1 Meaningful Use, but the tips in this white paper can help you get there before the deadline arrives.
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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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Take Your EMR From Good To Great
12/29/2011
Good EMRs help you improve operational efficiencies, reduce costs, meet meaningful use requirements and better serve patients. Great EMRs are a digital lifeline, critical to saving lives and preventing medical errors. This white paper outlines why this is such a critical distinction.
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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.
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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.
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EHR Solution Addresses Quality And Operational Issues At Women's Healthcare Of Illinois
10/15/2012
This case study from Greenway takes a look at Women’s Healthcare of Illinois, a two-location provider in the Chicago area, providing an array of advanced female medical services. Women’s Healthcare is currently experiencing a number of quality and operational issues that it wanted to address, all of which involved a move from paper charts to electronic health records (EHRs).
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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.
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The Path to Population Health Management: Creating An IT Foundation For A Successful ACO
10/22/2014
Healthcare organizations across the U.S. are investing significant resources in re-architecting their care delivery infrastructures to enable them to adapt successfully to new, value-based Accountable Care Organization (ACO) payment and delivery models. As these entities prepare to go “at risk” and take outcomes-based capitated or bundled payments, they face a broad set of challenges. These challenges range from acquiring or partnering for resources that will enable them to deliver and control the full continuum of care, to understanding their new cost structures and determining if they can survive and thrive financially in an ACO world.
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EHR Helps Providers Serve The Underserved Patient Population
5/7/2012
The EHR system PrimaryPlus had been using for a number of years wasn’t meeting today’s challenges, let alone future ones regarding coordinated care, accountable care and other quality-based funding initiatives, an aging population, and developing ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 standards. It needed a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure that would support the health system’s continued growth.
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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