Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

Top 10 Tech Trends: Working Together on Revenue Cycle

February 13, 2013     John DeGaspari
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With the advent of policy-driven changes under healthcare reform, the traditional revenue cycle management practices based on encounter-based billing activities are being swept aside. With that inevitability, provider organizations are considering how to best realign their accounts receivable processes to maximize those revenues that are pegged to data-driven quality outcomes in patient care.

Guest Blog: Six Healthcare IT Predictions for 2013

February 5, 2013     Ted Reynolds and Chris Miller, CTG Health Solutions
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The meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs), healthcare reform and ongoing pressure to improve clinical and financial performance will drive six trends that we expect will impact providers in 2013, say two executives at CTG Health Solutions

Putting the "C" (for Connectivity) Into Community: Lessons from the QIOs

February 3, 2013     Mark Hagland
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CIOs, CMIOs and other healthcare leaders have a real opportunity to help shape community-wide healthcare delivery performance improvement initiatives: just ask Jane Brock, M.D., of the Colorado Foundation for Medical Care, that state's QIO.

“2013 Is the Year of Data”: A PriceWaterhouseCoopers Executive Looks at the Top IT Challenges on the Horizon

January 29, 2013     Mark Hagland
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Earlier this month, the Health Research Institute at PriceWaterhouseCoopers consulting firm released a new report, “Top health industry issues of 2013: Picking up the pace on health reform.” PWC’s John Edwards, director of the consulting firm’s healthcare advisory division, shares his perspectives on the most pressing challenges facing healthcare IT leaders right now. Here’s a hint: think data and information systems, not IT per se.

Are You Ready to Create a (Healthcare) Revolution?

January 28, 2013     Mark Hagland
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The winning teams in this year's Healthcare Informatics Innovator Awards program exemplify the spirit of pioneering innovation in our industry

A Moving Target

January 28, 2013     David Raths
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What does a technology platform for accountable care look like? What tools do organizations need to allow them to integrate clinical, claims, patient-reported and public health data into a patient-centric data model? Healthcare Informatics recently interviewed several chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), and consultants involved in creating accountable care organizations (ACOs), and a consensus seems to be developing about the areas of infrastructure they need to bolster.

New England Innovation: Collaborative IT Foundations for Accountable Care

January 19, 2013     Mark Hagland
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David Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H., CEO of the Northern New England Accountable Care Collaborative, a Portland, Maine-based collaborative organization founded by four integrated health systems in New England, shares his perspectives on the challenges and opportunities involved in laying the IT foundations for accountable care

Washington Debrief: Meaningful Use Payments Edge Across $10B Line in 2012

January 15, 2013     Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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According to officials at CMS, December was the single largest monthly payout of EHR incentives in the program’s history. Roughly $1.2 billion went to eligible hospitals and eligible physicians in December, bringing the total estimated payout to $10.3 billion. The bulk of the payments went to EHs, who received $1 billion in Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments. EPs received $175 million in Medicare payments and $80 million in Medicaid payments.

INDUSTRY-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: CIO Dan Drawbaugh on UPMC’s Groundbreaking Analytics Agenda

January 13, 2013     Mark Hagland
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As the vast UPMC health system in Pittsburgh moves forward on its big-data journey, senior vice president and CIO Dan Drawbaugh shares his perspectives on that journey exclusively with HCI’s Mark Hagland. Among the top learnings so far: the level of collaboration between and among senior clinician, administrative, and IT leaders required to achieve big-data breakthroughs will be exceptional.

It’s Not Just About Technology: An Interview With James Turnbull, CIO of the Year

January 11, 2013     Rajiv Leventhal
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On Jan. 7, James Turnbull, chief information officer (CIO) at the Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Health Care (UUHC), was named the 2012 John E. Gall, Jr. CIO of the Year Award. Recently, he spoke with HCI Assistant Editor Rajiv Leventhal to talk about his role as CIO and the current and future state of health IT.

HHS: Providers Partner to Form 106 New ACOs

January 10, 2013     Rajiv Leventhal
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Doctors and health care providers have formed 106 new Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in Medicare, ensuring as many as four million Medicare beneficiaries now have access to high-quality, coordinated care across the United States, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced.
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