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Innovaccer Launches New ACO Initiative to Assist IPAs and Providers Transition

by HITC Staff 05/24/2017 Leave a Comment

Innovaccer Introduces First-of-its-kind Initiative to Assist IPAs and Providers Transition to ACOs

Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based Healthcare analytics company has launched a ‘no cost’ initiative to provide assistance to Independent Physician Associations (IPAs) and other transforming provider organizations to transition into an Accountable Care Organization (ACOs)The concept of value has become prominent in the advancing healthcare. Care teams are creating room for improvement in care delivery to bring down the cost of care with a better quality of care. The complexity and
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Partners, GE Healthcare Launch 10-Year Initiative to Bring Artificial Intelligence to Diagnostic Imaging

by HITC Staff 05/18/2017 Leave a Comment

Partners HealthCare

 Partners HealthCare and GE Healthcare announced a 10-year collaboration to rapidly develop, validate and strategically integrate artificial intelligence technology across the entire continuum of care. The vision of the collaboration includes co-development of open platform on which deep learning applications can be created, validated and seamlessly integrated into clinical workflows. Specific areas of focus span across multiple medical specialties including:- Radiology- Pathology- Population
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Survey: 64% of Healthcare Organizations Still Underprepared For MACRA

by HITC Staff 03/22/2017 Leave a Comment

Survey: 64% of Healthcare Organizations Still Underprepared For MACRA

More than half of healthcare providers (64 percent) are “unprepared” or “very unprepared” for managing and executing Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) initiatives, according to the 5th annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. The survey was conducted at the 2017 Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference in Orlando included participants from practice management, project management, director and c-suite
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Chilmark Report: 2017 State of the ACO Value-Based Model & Its Market Evolution

by Jasmine Pennic 03/06/2017 Leave a Comment

Chilmark Report: 2017 State of the ACO Value-Based Model & Its Market Evolutionq

Successfully enabling an Accountable Care Organization is extremely challenging: There isn’t one standard ACO model; there isn’t one single ACO national policy; there isn’t one specific map to follow to build an ACO nor measure its success. There are few if any best practices readily available for healthcare organizations to adopt and make a successful transition to value-based care (VBC) within an ACO model. This has created a strong market need for high-service solution vendors that can guide
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Beacon Health System ACO Taps Koan Health for Value-Based Analytics

by Jasmine Pennic 02/03/2017 Leave a Comment

Beacon Health System ACO Taps Koan Health for Value-Based Analytics

CHA ACO — a federally recognized accountable care organization (ACO) owned by Beacon Health System has tapped Dallas-based Koan Health to provide comprehensive healthcare analytics, risk management and performance improvement services for multiple CHA ACO and Beacon initiatives. As part of the agreement, CHA ACO and Beacon will have access to Koan Health's proprietary analytic tools and consulting services that analyze and target areas for improvement in population health and specific episodes
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10 Recommended Policy Principles to Build Momentum Towards Value-based Care

by HITC Staff 01/25/2017 Leave a Comment

Value-Based Health Care is Antithetic to Patient-Centered Care_ Value-based Care in Oncology

In a letter to Congress and the Administration, leading healthcare organizations today called for a renewed effort to move to value-based care, patient-centered payment models that reward improved quality and cost-effective care. Central to this effort is addressing the perverse incentives in the fee-for-service system, and antiquated laws and regulations that impede innovation and care coordination.The bipartisan journey toward value-based care began more than 15 years ago with pay for
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Able Health Launches End-to-End MIPS platform for Reporting, Performance Improvement

by HITC Staff 01/18/2017 Leave a Comment

Able Health

Able Health is a health IT company dedicated to making value-based care work for providers has launched an end-to-end MIPS solution enabling providers to improve performance and submit data to CMS with less time, money, and stress. The new platform can ingest patient data from electronic health records and data warehouses, calculate any MIPS registry quality measure or eCQM, and provide a dashboard for administrators to track and improve a group or provider's MIPS Composite Performance Score.
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Innovaccer Unveils Free ACO Performance & Trends Tool for Providers

by Fred Pennic 01/12/2017 Leave a Comment

Innovaccer Unveils Free ACO Performance & Trends Tool for Providers

Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-Headquartered Healthcare analytics company has unveiled ACO Compare, a one of it’s kind free tool to track, monitor and compare the performances of Accountable Care Organizations. Created after extensive research on Accountable Care Organizations currently functioning in the US with performance and quality data as received from CMS, ACO Compare combines 33 quality reporting measures specified by the CMS serve as the basis of comparison which are divided into
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Aledade Lands $20M to Expand Value-Based Care Network

by HITC Staff 01/10/2017 Leave a Comment

Aledade ACO

Aledade, Inc., a provider of in value-based care has raised $20 million in funding that will accelerate Aledade’s efforts to grow its provider network as well as expand partnerships with commercial and Medicare Advantage health led by Biomatics Capital. The round also included participation from new investors including GV (formerly Google Ventures) and the Maryland Venture Fund, and existing investors Venrock and ARCH Venture Partners.Aledade ACO network now includes more than 200 independent,
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Plotting the Roadmap to Value-based Reimbursements in 2017 & Beyond

by Our Thought Leaders 01/03/2017 1 Comment

Value-Based Health Care is Antithetic to Patient-Centered Care_ Value-based Care in Oncology

Editor's Note: Mark R. Anderson, FHIMSS, CPHIMS is the CEO of AC Group and a member of Innovaccer’s Board of Advisor, a Silicon Valley-based healthcare analytics company. Previously, he is a former CIO for 5 IDNs, an interim CFO, and CEO of Rural Hospitals.  Policymakers and private industries have been pushing for a change in healthcare reimbursement policy. Back in January of 2015, several of the nation’s largest health care systems and payers, joined by the purchaser and patient stakeholders,
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