March 18, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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According to a recent report from the Framingham, Mass.-based IDC Health Insights, the “lynchpin” to accountable care success hinges on access to timely, completely, contextual, and digestible data. The report includes a survey of healthcare organizations which indicates there is a focus on IT investments in tools for analytics to manage the health of the population.
March 14, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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On March 13 in Philadelphia, David Nash, M.D., founder of the first U.S. academic institution focused on population health, establishing the Jefferson School of Population Health at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, headed the 13th Population Health Colloquium, with its goal to provide forward thinking and meaningful continuing education for healthcare professionals to help prepare them to find solutions to the myriad challenges that healthcare currently faces.
March 6, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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G. Daniel Martich, M.D., chief medical information officer at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), says one of the ways to accountable care is through the device in your pocket. In this exclusive interview with HCI Associate Editor Gabriel Perna at the HIMSS conference in New Orleans, he talks about UPMC’s mobile health initiative and how it ties into being an ACO.
February 22, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced winners of State Innovation Model awards, doling out nearly $300 million to six states that will implement plans to transform the multi-payer payment and health care delivery system. The six states are Arkansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, and Vermont.
February 15, 2013 Gabriel Perna
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In an NCQA webinar, managing partner and CEO of Crystal Run Healthcare, Hal Teitelbaum, M.D., talked about the mentality his organization has in being an ACO. It’s clear being an ACO, and getting accreditation from the NCQA, is not something that can be done with negligence.
February 13, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
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Of the 258 accountable care organizations (ACOs) recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), 60 of them, from more than 15 states, have joined together to form the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS), a non-profit organization that allows ACOs to work together to increase quality of care, lower costs and improve the health of their communities.
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.
December 19, 2012 Rajiv Leventhal
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The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), a Chicago-based nonprofit, has announced plans to develop an IT framework for accountable care organizations (ACOs). The framework will identify the health IT infrastructure components necessary for a provider organization to function effectively as an ACO and help identify any gaps that would prevent them from meeting their goals as an ACO.
December 13, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Summit Medical Group, a Berkeley Heights, N.J.-based medical group, recently announced its forming an accountable care organization (ACO) with Cigna, a New York City-based payer. The two organizations say the new ACO will impact 10,000 patients that receive care at 300 Summit Medical Group providers.
December 11, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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The Health IT Policy Committee met for their monthly meeting this week in Washington and during an extensive review and update on projects and programs, ONC announced they were taking preliminary steps to establish a subcommittee on HIT and ACOs. The subcommittee would be charged with making recommendations to the HITPC on how health IT can support the business needs of accountable care models.
December 5, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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While some are skeptical of accountable care organizations (ACOs), a recent report from the New York City-based consulting firm, Oliver Wyman says the ACO movement is alive and well. The report’s authors say 31 million patients are attached to an ACO, a number which only represents a fraction of the possible impact ACOs can have on healthcare delivery. In this Q&A, one of the report’s authors talks about the surprises, opportunities, and critics of ACOs.
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