ACO Top Content
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A Call For Better Health IT
10/29/2014
Whether technology played a part in Duncan’s Ebola misdiagnosis may still be in question, but what can no longer be ignored is the fact that health IT has to get better.
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Does ICD-10 Make Sense?
10/16/2013
Providers have opposed ICD-10 since the beginning and that opinion hasn’t changed over time. By Katie Wike, contributing writer
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White House: Health IT Vital To Affordable Care
3/21/2014
Obama administration says harnessing technology, spurring health vital for making affordable care a reality. By Kathy Fowler
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ACOs: Healthcare’s Future, Or An Inevitable Failure?
4/2/2013
The term Accountable Care Organization has been around since 2006 and, in 2009, became part of the healthcare industry landscape when it was included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. BerylHealth created this infographic which provides a wealth of ACO-related information from the amount of the U.S. GDP spent on healthcare (15%) to the number of quality measures ACOs are measured on (33). By John Oncea, editor, Health IT Outcomes
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Stage 2 MU Sticking Points
3/25/2013
Patient engagement and medical image integration are the top Stage 2 Meaningful Use concerns for many providers. Learn how these four EHR early adopters plan to tackle these issues and achieve successful attestation.
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Contractor To Recover Improper Bonuses Paid For Incentive Program
10/8/2013
Medicare hires Arch Systems to verify the accuracy of provider data submitted to the Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program (eRx) and Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) By Greg Bengel, contributing writer
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ICD-10 Capture And Readiness Aids Revenue Cycle
10/31/2013
Rothman Institute implements ePASS to protect physician productivity and enhance and efficient and accurate revenue cycle By Wendy Grafius, contributing writer
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Utilizing Evidence-Based Order Sets To Improve Core Measures
8/9/2013
Order sets provide physicians with supporting medical evidence and narrative guidelines that help them meet best practices with core measures performance and quality metrics By Greg Bengel, contributing writer
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What Drives Healthcare Innovation?
6/7/2013
In an op-ed column for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman acknowledges the debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act but focuses on an unexpected benefit of it, writing, “There is one area where the law already appears to be surprising on the upside. And that is the number of health care information start-ups it’s spurring. This is a big deal.” By John Oncea, editor
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Two Of Three Hospitals MU Ready
9/25/2013
A HIMSS Analytics report says about 68 percent of hospitals now have the tools to meet Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirements, but some are still calling for an extension of the timeline By Katie Wike, contributing writer