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A new accountable care network (ACN) is in town. Putting health information technology to work, the network – organized by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) – aims to reduce hospital readmissions and improve quality of care for chronically ill patients.
The rewards, the point systems, the streamlined functionality… don’t be misled by the game-like structure of the “EveryBODY Get Healthy” care system. The platform is a lifestyle changer – specifically, one that’s expected to improve more than 120,000 lives in the greater Philadelphia area.
The University of Chicago, in collaboration with the Chicago Health Information Technology Regional Center (CHITREC) and the Alliance for Chicago Community Health Services plans to close the loop among doctors, patients and health resources in the South Side community of Chicago with a new system called “CommunityRx.”
With the highest mortality rate in healthcare and costing hospitals an estimated $180 billion each year, intensive care units (ICUs) are established regulars in the health IT reform spotlight.
The most paramount obstacle to fighting fraud today is the "pay and chase" culture of rapid payment, rather than detection. Here are four new ways to change that and start eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse of healthcare funds.
Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the substance of the Affordable Care Act, it's time to refocus attention toward the essentially bipartisan support for health IT. At the same time, it's worth reconsidering some closely-held beliefs about technology's role in care delivery.
The ACA surviving the Supreme Court means that now is the time for a Health IT orthodoxy 2.0, contends John Loonsk, MD, with a focus on improving data quality in the near-term to ultimately bolster decision support.
Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the ACA, CIOs such as Ed Ricks are left to forge a path forward via health IT. Here's what Ricks is thinking.
The NQF Board of Directors has voted to stick to its decision to endorse a new all-cause hospital-wide readmissions measure developed by Yale University and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- a measure challenged by seven hospital systems.
Now that the uncertainty has cleared, healthcare organizations have even more incentive to metamorphose themselves into accountable care organizations aligned with the CMS Shared Savings Program.