Featured ACO Articles

61. 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."

62. IT Infrastructure: A Foundation For Accountable Care Organizations 8/11/2011
    The advent of healthcare reform will require a health information technology infrastructure that integrates all the “moving parts” of an ACO, including hospitals, physicians, labs, outpatient centers, claims and analytics.
63. 10 Things You Need To Know About Accountable Care Organizations 11/22/2011

    Compared to a traditional fee-for-service model, a successful ACO will incentivize cooperation and will lower costs by encouraging quality care rather than generation of volume. This paper defines three different structures for ACOs: integrated, collective, and combination.

64. 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
65. 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.

66. Reinventing Healthcare For The 21st Century 11/21/2012

    Both developed and emerging countries face three global megatrends that will have a crippling impact on their economies and societies if not addressed in the near future.

67. Using mHealth To Work Smarter 12/1/2011
    A widely used term in the rapidly changing world of mobile technologies for healthcare is mHealth.