ACO Roundtable on blogtalkradio: Friday, April 1
On Friday April 1st, 2011 (yes, ‘April Fools day’) at 4 PM Eastern and 1 PM Pacific ACO Watch: A Mid Week Review will host a special roundtable series on the ‘hot of the press’ Notice of Proposed Rules’ pertaining to the implementation of Accountable Care Organizations. For the published rule, click here. The roundtable team will […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - March 31, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Health Policy/Reform care management Medicare Source Type: blogs
The New ACO Rule is Here…The New ACO Rule is Here…and more!
429 p. Proposed ACO Rule ACO Fact sheet from HHS Medicare Fact Sheet: What Providers Need to Know HHS press release Don Berwick’s article on ACOs in the NEJM ACO Quality Performance Standards Summary FTC/DOJ Joint Antitrust Statement on ACOs TheHill article “Leaked memo reveals Dem strategy for defending healthcare reg” The leaked memo
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Source: e-CareManagement - March 31, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Collaborative Care Management Networks Health Policy/Reform Medicare strategy Source Type: blogs
A One in a Hundred Whitepaper: “Better to Best” Transcends PCMH, Care Coordination, Access, HIT, and ACO Payment Reform
Let me try to get you in the right frame of mind to read one of the most remarkable white papers in a long time: Better to BEST: Value Driving Elements of the Patient Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations — released yesterday by the Commonwealth Fund, Dartmouth Institute, and PCPCC. Having been a […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - March 31, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Health Policy/Reform Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Integration ACO HITECH medical home Source Type: blogs
The 6th Thing to Watch in the Medicare ACO Regulations
Health care lobbyists and advocates are bracing for six pages of the health care reform law to explode into more than 1,000 pages of federal regulations when the Department of Health and Human Services releases its long-delayed accountable care organization rules this week. Politico What should you be looking for as you snuggle by the […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - March 30, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Health Policy/Reform ACO hospital Medicare Source Type: blogs
Health Plan Strategy Options in Two Sentences
“If you’re a health plan, you either become a care delivery system or an information services company,” said David Brailer, a former George W. Bush administration health official who now leads an investment firm. “The traditional business is dead.” Read more at Kaiser Health News. .
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Source: e-CareManagement - March 20, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) health plan strategy Source Type: blogs
Please Support 100,000 Voices for Don Berwick
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Source: e-CareManagement - March 18, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Source Type: blogs
The Crucial Distinction Between “Accountable Care” and ACOs
While in Philadelphia earlier this week, my colleague Dr. David Nace presented me with a print copy of McKesson Relay Health’s newest whitepaper — Providing Accountability: Accountable Care Concepts for Providers. I felt honored as he handed it to me and confided that it was one of only six copies in print. I took time to read it […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - March 18, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Health Policy/Reform Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) accountable care ACO health reform HIE strategy Source Type: blogs
Electronic Health Information Exchange — Way More Complicated Than Getting Money from an ATM
“If banks can exchange funds electronically through the ATM system, why can’t my doctor and hospital exchange information electronically?” Keith Boone’s concise article “A Doctor is Not a Bank” explains why this conclusion about healthcare interoperability is overly-simplistic. …and Keith’s article reminded me of an even deeper explanation presented in the National Academies’ Frontiers of Engineering […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - March 14, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: EHRs/PHRs Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) hospital interoperability Source Type: blogs
Top 20 iPhone Medical Apps: No Connection to EHRs…Yet
iMedicalApps recently published its list of Top 20 Free iPhone Medical Apps for Healthcare Professionals. What struck me about the list is that the state-of-the-art is stand alone applications — I didn’t see any that had any connection to an EHR (electronic health record). Here’s the top 5 to give you a flavor of what’s […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - March 1, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: EHRs/PHRs Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) HITECH hospital platform Source Type: blogs
Doctors Love iPads. What Does it Mean? What Does it Mean?
After attending the largest annual health IT conference of the year — HIMSS 11 – John Moore reported that “nearly every EHR vendor has an iPad App for the EHR [electronic health record], or will be releasing such this year.” Doctors love iPads…not surprising? But, how might you explain this? There are at least two different […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - February 27, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: EHRs/PHRs Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) Apple business model conference HIMSS hospital platform strategy Source Type: blogs
Direct Project: Revisiting the Innovative Power of Push
Last May Fred Trotter wrote a brilliant blog post entitled The Power of Push. His essay described the latent power of the Direct Project (known then as NHIN-Direct). At that time, the Direct Project was still being incubated and was not widely known or understood. Since then, it’s gone from being an idea to a […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - February 24, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) NHIN Source Type: blogs
Is Economic Credentialing A Tool for Primary Care to Lead ACOs?
Is economic credentialing — the use of economic factors such as loyalty and utilization rates in the physician credentialing process — a potential tool for primary care physicians to lead ACOs? and reestablish the vitality of primary care in American health care? Keith Wright and Gregory Drutchas’ incisive article Economic Credentialing: A Prescription To Secure Shared […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - February 24, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Care Providers & Care Coordination Health Policy/Reform health plan HIE hospital primary care Source Type: blogs
Getting DIRECTly to the Point: The Role of the Direct Project in Fast-Tracking Health IT Interoperability
By Rich Elmore and Arien Malec. Rich Elmore is the Direct Project Communication Workgroup leader and Vice President, Strategic Initiatives at Allscripts. Arien Malec is ONC’s Coordinator, Direct Project and Coordinator, S&I Framework. A patient’s health records are no longer confined to a doctor’s office, shelved inside a dusty file cabinet. With the advent of the […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - February 18, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) care coordination conference EHR EHRs/PHRs HIE HIMSS hospital interoperability meaningful use medical home platform primary care Source Type: blogs
HSR Study: Focus on High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries
Conclusions. Health reform policies currently envisioned to improve care and lower costs may have small […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - February 16, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Medicare/Care Coordination health reform PPACA Source Type: blogs
10 Reasons Why an Open IT Platform Strategy is the Right Long-Term Choice for an ACO
Many Physicians and Clinical Service Providers Will Not Be In Your ACO Contracting Network. Expect Significant Patient Leakage (Migration) Out of Your ACO Network Expect Patient Demands for Sharing Records. Minimize Anti-Trust Concerns. Expect Continuing Government Pressure for Broad Data Exchange. Achieve ACO Efficiency and Cost Savings. Differentiate Your ACO. Reduce Risk of Malpractice Liability. […]
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Source: e-CareManagement - February 9, 2011 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Vince Kuraitis Tags: Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) ACO HIE HIT platform strategy Source Type: blogs
