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Innovations in Health Care Delivery

by Fred Pennic 08/18/2012 Leave a Comment

 Video panel discussion on innovations in health care delivery from the latest episode of Deloitte Insights
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How Health Information Exchanges Will Drive ACOs

by Fred Pennic 08/14/2012 7 Comments

 Editor's Note: This Q-and-A features Mark Caron, Senior Vice President and CIO of Capital BlueCross. SearchHealthIT.com HIT reporter Don Fluckinger sat down with Caron to discuss how health information exchanges (HIE), a significant component of meaningful use stages 2 and 3, fits into the changing landscape of health care payment models
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Hospitals: Are You Ready for an ACO?

by Fred Pennic 06/27/2012 Leave a Comment

Contributed by Michael Sandwith, Director of Business Development at ICA The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) aims to change the way hospitals deliver care by changing the financial incentives.  There are different payment structures than can be used to encourage hospitals to lower costs, improve quality, or both.  Since the goal of an ACO should be to lower costs and improve quality, using an accountability payment structure – one in which costs and quality are linked–will be the most
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Video: Where Does Accountable Care Start?

by Fred Pennic 06/05/2012 Leave a Comment

Hospitals considering accountable care strategies have plenty of options to choose from, but deciding where to begin can be confusing. Joseph Damore, Vice President of Engagement and Delivery for Premier, answers the following questions during this video interview: How can hospitals engage staff in Accountable Care? What can hospitals do to transition from fee for service to population health? Will the Accountable Care movement continue regardless of the fate of healthcare reform?
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Video: Pulling Off the Band Aid:Easing the Pain of Healthcare Reform

by Fred Pennic 06/02/2012 Leave a Comment

Easing the Pain of Healthcare Reform

In this webinar, Dr. Russell Faust discusses the importance of Social Media and Integrative Medicine in developing an ACO (Accountable Care Organization).
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Video:ACOs and Patient Safety: Dos and Don’ts

by Fred Pennic 05/15/2012 Leave a Comment

Proponents of ACOs hope increased care coordination will ultimately lead to improved patient safety. But getting there will require ACOs to address a series of regulatory, legal and structural hurdles,
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Infographic:Healthcare Reform Readiness

by Fred Pennic 05/10/2012 1 Comment

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The healthcare industry faces a confluence of challenges with rising costs, inconsistent quality and access to care. The three key principles that will drive industry transformation are:
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Report:Physician Employment – Keys to Success for Hospital Financial Leaders

by Fred Pennic 05/08/2012 Leave a Comment

Educational report by McKesson Revenue Management Solutions reviews how practice acquisitions are a growing imperative for financial leaders. Hospital leaders increasingly view physician employment as a strategic necessity
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Report:PPACA Would Reduce Number of Uninsured from 50 million to 26 million

by Fred Pennic 02/15/2012 Leave a Comment

In a recent report published last month by the Urban Institute and Robert Johnson Foundation states that if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is enacted,  it would reduce the number of nonelderly uninsured Americans from 50 million to 26 million.  However, if the Individual Mandate clause of the PPACA is repealed, the number of uninsured Americans will rise between 40 and 42 million. The report also states that ACA would increase private insurance by 7 million people and if
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Video: AHA’s CEO Rich Umbdenstock Speaks on the Accountable Care Era

by Fred Pennic 01/24/2012 2 Comments

January 2012 marks the start of CMS's accountable care organization experiment, in addition to the many private partnerships hospitals are forging using the ACO model. AHA (American Hospital Association) President Rich Umbdenstock talks to Hospital & Health Networks senior online editor Haydn Bush about the challenges and opportunities hospitals face in the new era of accountability.
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