Featured ACO Articles

51. 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
52. 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.

53. Balancing The Scales: Selecting The Right EHR For The Life Of Your Practice And Your Patients 3/25/2013

    If we are at or approaching a technological tipping point in the history of healthcare, then it has never been more important for physician practices to select the right electronic health record (EHR) – and there are tangible reasons to believe so.

54. An Israeli Model For Coordinated Care 4/5/2012
    This white paper illustrates how Maccabi Healthcare Services, the second largest health maintenance organization in Israel, aligned the proper incentives, processes, and IT assets to deliver coordinated care to more than 1.9 million members.
55. 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.

56. 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.

57. Novant Health Reduces Transcription TAT From Days To Hours, Doubles MT Productivity 4/16/2012

    Novant Health’s 1,117 physicians, 13 hospitals, and 360 clinic locations serve more than 3.5 million patients from Northern Virginia to Georgia. Efficient, accurate capture and transfer of information from more than 1,500 dictating clinicians enables award-winning levels of quality and care.

58. 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
59. 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.
60. 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.