The Impact of ED Optimization on ACOs
The key to improvement lies in ED optimization
Cigna Ventures leads $29.5M investment in healthcare analytics company
Massachusetts-based Arcadia raised growth capital from Cigna Ventures and existing investors. The company aggregates data from health record systems and uses it to drive improvements in performance.
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The Top EAP Companies for Mental Health Support
Employee assistance programs have become essential tools for organizations aiming to address mental health challenges, reduce burnout and foster healthier workplaces.
Risky Business: ACO checklist for 2020 includes embracing new payment models and physician re-engagement
The key for ACO success this new year and in the coming years, based on the experience of high-performing organizations, is to focus on the basics of patient and physician engagement.
Advocating for evolution, not disruption, in healthcare
Healthcare doesn’t shatter and reanimate as the terms "disruption" and "disruptive innovation" suggest. It evolves. Even groundbreaking technologies in history show the transformation happening over time and with continuous building upon prior advances.
Achieving the ultimate healthcare outcome for your practice: value-based care
The key questions to ask – and features to consider – to ensure your practice can achieve the promise of value-based care.
Mingle Analytics and SilverVue merge to create value-based care vendor Mingle Health
The combined company, based in Sandy, Utah and Paris, Maine, will be focused on offering software and consulting services generally limited to large healthcare systems to providers ranging from large ACOs to independent practices.
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Rethinking The Entry Point to Healthcare in America: Collaboration in Communities
Healthcare in the U.S. today exists in a complex, fragmented and costly system, and the people this system is designed for deserve a holistic approach to best address their individual health needs.
Exclusive: Remedy launches screening tool to uncover undiagnosed chronic illness
The San Francisco-based startup's platform aids care coordinators to assess and identify both clinical and sociodemographic risk factors for chronic illnesses like diabetes, COPD, chronic kidney disease, depression and congestive heart failure.
Trump administration wants to overhaul Medicare accountable care organization program
Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said it’s wrong to have ACOs that can only make profits but not risk any losses. “We want to put the accountability back into Accountable Care Organizations,” she said during a briefing with reporters.
Why Mercy ACO collaborated with Innovaccer to improve how it handled data
Mercy ACO lacked a solid way to connect its data from disparate sources, so it worked with Innovaccer and its data platform to help solve the issue.
Walmart and Emory Healthcare form ACO to serve retailer’s Atlanta employees
Since January 1, Walmart employees at 55 Walmart, Sam's Club and Walmart Distribution Center locations in the metro-Atlanta area have been able to choose the Emory Accountable Care Plan as their primary health plan.
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How (and Where) to Find the Best Value Rehabilitation Programs for Brain Injuries
Choosing the right brain injury rehabilitation program is a critical decision that can shape the future for you or your loved one.
CMS cancels Direct Decision Support Model, calling it too “burdensome” for participants
On February 2, CMS said it has chosen to call off the Direct Decision Support Model. This follows a similar decision last year to cancel the Shared Decision Making Model.
For hospitals, value-based care could actually equal lower readmission rates
A new study from JAMA Internal Medicine found hospitals participating in one or more value-based programs have lower readmission rates.
ACO performance update shows many struggle to learn from failures and successes
A number of the Pioneer ACOs dropped out of the program, so even the more “advanced” participants are not uniformly delivering the best possible results.
Improving lives and sharing benefits with patient-centered care
Healthcare in America is evolving rapidly and so the providers of care must evolve with it. Pay-for-performance is replacing fee-for-service, so provider reimbursements will be based on their compliance with pre-established quality benchmarks rather than just service delivery. Accountability and the concept of Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH) are at the core of this emerging […]
EMR – A drop in the bucket
The recent focus of the government is slowly shifting towards HIEs and interoperable systems as EMR adoption continues to rise. Many health IT experts argue that while EMR may have been the core of the health IT movement initially, its importance lies in building the support pillars for a new system that extends far beyond […]