Archive for the ‘ACO’ Category

As we get closer to HIMSS13, I think back to some of my key takeaways from HIMSS12. One of the things I heard over and over again last year is that healthcare is in a bubble. Going into HIMSS13, with Bill Clinton as the keynote, it seems worthwhile to ask: Are we in a health [...]

I’m one of those people who doesn’t feel a day over 25. In reality, I’m 11 years past my quarter-century mark. In my mind, I haven’t changed a bit. Then I see my friend’s children. Her eldest has gone from a roly-poly baby to a lean, mean junior high school football-playing machine. He also brings home [...]

Last Thursday the Supreme Court got us a present for our birthday, the plan we deserve, aka the Affordable Care Act. It was a grand compromise of a bill and a decision that each person in the country can love and hate at the same time. There’s something for everyone, but there’s mostly a lot [...]

Engagement. This is the one word I came across over and over and over and over again last week at HealthCa.mp/DC and the HealthDataPalooza the week of June 4th in Washington, DC. There is, without a doubt, a growing consensus among providers and many Health IT innovators that user engagement, physician engagement and patient engagement [...]

In December 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the names of 32 health organizations selected to participate in their Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model, which launched just over one month ago on Jan. 1. Chosen from 80 applicants, these 32 Pioneer ACOs are testing several new payment arrangements, which [...]

With Meaningful Use requirements, connecting to Health Information Exchanges, coordinating data flow in Accountable Care Organizations, updating devices to ICD-10 codes and general interoperability projects, there is a tremendous amount of work going on in Health IT. With very significant deadlines to accomplish these vital initiatives, it would be easy for IT managers to develop [...]

As an author of a book focused on planning for Accountable Care Organizations, I’ve heard from all too many providers and consultants who believe the concept will never take off. Although I remain cautiously optimistic about this new care delivery model, I am very much looking forward to the results of the Pioneer ACO program. [...]

On Nov. 3 we published a six-question, multiple-choice HIT Quiz on the final ACO regulations, which were released Oct. 20 by The Department of Health and Human Services. (For background reading on the revised rules, see Final rule eases ACO regulations, lifts EHR requirements, from Healthcare IT News.) Quiz results were definitely a mixed bag. [...]

While National Health IT Week technically is over, it still feels like it’s going on in our offices (naturally). There’s not as much chatter on the web so far this week, but that has only made it easier to find some good information to share with the HL7standards and #HITsm community. HIE and ACO Front [...]