Featured ACO Articles
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How Is Clinical Decision Support Technology Driving Successful ACOs?
12/8/2014
The movement to enhance and streamline healthcare through accountable care organizations (ACOs) is well underway in the wake of the issuance of final rules by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in October 2011. Designed as patient-centered initiatives that help doctors, hospitals and other healthcare organizations better coordinate patient care, ACOs are fundamentally structured to incentivize participating healthcare groups for achieving an aggressive set of cost and quality measures built upon improved communication, data sharing and decision making.
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EHR Solution Addresses Quality And Operational Issues At Women’s Healthcare Of Illinois
10/15/2012
This case study from Greenway takes a look at Women’s Healthcare of Illinois, a two-location provider in the Chicago area, providing an array of advanced female medical services. Women’s Healthcare is currently experiencing a number of quality and operational issues that it wanted to address, all of which involved a move from paper charts to electronic health records (EHRs).
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EHR Helps Providers Serve The Underserved Patient Population
5/7/2012
The EHR system PrimaryPlus had been using for a number of years wasn’t meeting today’s challenges, let alone future ones regarding coordinated care, accountable care and other quality-based funding initiatives, an aging population, and developing ICD-10 and HIPAA 5010 standards. It needed a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure that would support the health system’s continued growth.
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Reinventing Healthcare For The 21st Century
11/21/2012
Both developed and emerging countries face three global megatrends that will have a crippling impact on their economies and societies if not addressed in the near future.
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Providing Accountability: Accountable Care Concepts For Healthcare Providers
4/5/2011
Healthcare expenditures in the United States totaled $2.5 trillion in 2009. Researchers estimate as much as 30 percent of those costs, or $750 billion, may have been due to overuse, underuse, misuse, and/or inefficiencies of healthcare services. By RelayHealth
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PrimeSUITE ‘Absolutely Fantastic’ Solution For Solo Practitioner
8/22/2012
This success story from Greenway focuses on Vandna Jerath, MD, a solo practitioner operating Optima Women’s Healthcare which is a private practice in Parker, CO specializing in obstetrics, gynecology, infertility, urogynecology, and wellness.
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PrimeSUITE Implementation Boosts Important Metrics At Birmingham Heart Clinic
8/22/2012
This case study from Greenway covers the Birmingham Heart Clinic, a nine provider cardiology practice established in 1994, and how it was able to boost charge capture, pre-provider income, and patient visits during the inaugural deployment year of PrimeSUITE®.
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Accountable Care Trends, Strategies, And Best Practices
11/30/2012
Movement within the nation’s healthcare system has been swift and broad-‐based since the October 2011 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Shared Savings Final Rule.
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ACO Efficiently Manages Population Health With The Help Of Gateway EDI
10/2/2012
With a local network currently uniting more than 150 providers and 250,000 patients, United Medical is well on its way to changing the health care landscape in Delaware.
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White Paper: Transforming IT For Accountable Healthcare
5/5/2011
This February 2011 white paper looks at the impact of ARRA and PPACA on provider organizations and the role IT can play in preparing healthcare providers for future success in the evolving landscape. An IDC Health Insights White Paper sponsored by HP