Is Healthcare Technology Caught In The Crosshairs of Triple Aim? Margalit Gur-Arie explores the challenging role of healthcare technology in Triple Aim.
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3 Population Health Management Implications for 2013
3 Population health management Implications for 2013 identified in recent PwC 'sHealth Institute annual report, Top Health Industry Issues for 2013.
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3 Reasons Why Health Insurance Exchanges Will Flounder in 2013
Steve Sisko outlines 3 reasons why health insurance exchanges will flounder in 2013 preventing the federal government and states to deliver until later in 2014
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Understanding How Big Data Flows in Healthcare Infographic
Understanding how big data flows in healthcare infographic and the ways big data can transform healthcare in the near future with cost savings, quality of care, and care coordination.
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What Is The Aim of An Accountable Care Organization? [Infographic Wednesday]
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What Is The Aim of An Accountable Care Organization and why is it important to improve costs and quality of care?
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Patient Centered Medical Home: Road to Patient Satisfaction [Infographic Wednesdays]
Infographic highlights how the patient-centered medical home has been shown to lower costs while improving healthcare outcomes and patient satisfaction
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Health Information Exchange Is the Foundation for ACOs
An insightful Guest post from John Smith, Director Of Communications At ICA describes how health information exchanges will serve as the key component to the success of ACOs
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Innovations in Health Care Delivery
Video panel discussion on innovations in health care delivery from the latest episode of Deloitte Insights
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How Health Information Exchanges Will Drive ACOs
Editor's Note: This Q-and-A features Mark Caron, Senior Vice President and CIO of Capital BlueCross. SearchHealthIT.com HIT reporter Don Fluckinger sat down with Caron to discuss how health information exchanges (HIE), a significant component of meaningful use stages 2 and 3, fits into the changing landscape of health care payment models
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Hospitals: Are You Ready for an ACO?
Contributed by Michael Sandwith, Director of Business Development at ICA The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) aims to change the way hospitals deliver care by changing the financial incentives. There are different payment structures than can be used to encourage hospitals to lower costs, improve quality, or both. Since the goal of an ACO should be to lower costs and improve quality, using an accountability payment structure – one in which costs and quality are linked–will be the most
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