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Posts Tagged ‘Accountable Care Organization’

Top 5 Technology Trends in Healthcare – November 2012

The healthcare IT field is rapidly developing and changing. Emerging technology and updated regulations put pressure on healthcare providers and health plans to stay ahead of the curve. Perficient creates a monthly list that explores some of the current topics and issues in health IT. This list examines the most talked about issues and technologies […]

Profitability & Cost Management in the Health Insurance Industry

Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management supports the core requirements of the Healthcare Insurance industry and provides value for a broad range of use cases. For core profitability management, HPCM helps managers gain visibility and understanding of the cost to service different healthcare plans, group business and members. It helps provide an accurate understanding of profitability by member segment, […]

Big Data in Healthcare: Do we even know what we’re talking about?

I’m in Boston this week at the Connected Health Symposium. I’ve attended a number of great sessions already, but I think I’m going to start with the one that left me wanting for more. My first official session of the day was entitled “Big Data Healthcare Analytics: Frontier or Fiction?” The panelists included Charlie Baker […]

From Little Data to BIG Data – One Step at a Time

The Journey of a thousand miles towards an ACO begins with one step. Healthcare organizations are coming to realize that the programs stimulated by the ARRA – HITECH Act, Meaningful Use (MU) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), require something that they don’t have in sufficient quantities, the desired type or in the right format: “Data”. […]

White Paper: The Intelligent ACO: A Primer

The term “Accountable Care Organization”, or ACO, is used to describe a primary physician centric healthcare delivery system with a shared savings compensation model. ACOs are primary physician-centric groups of doctors, specialists, hospitals, and other health care providers, who voluntarily come together with a proper legal structure which aims to provide coordinated high-quality care to […]

AHIP Conference 2012: Day 2 Update

AHIP CEO Karen Ignagni kicked off Day 2 by addressing the elephant in the room…no Supreme Court ruling today. The fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and “the Mandate” within would have to wait another day. Ignagni went on to remind the conference goers that similar attempts at state-based reform in the mid-90s resulted […]

AHIP Conference 2012: Day 1 Update

As referenced in the introduction to “America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Conference,” the decisions that will shape our nation’s health care are near. The Supreme Court Decision. The Presidential election. Implementation decisions within health plans that are shaping the delivery of care. The intent of the June 20-22 conference in Salt Lake City is to […]

The Marriage of ACOs and Technology

ACOs are paving the way for a healthcare payment model that is based on quality and efficiency instead of volume. They were created as a response to health reform initiatives that focus on improving patient safety, quality of care and affordability. As the name suggests, ACOs are institutions that collectively share the risks associated with […]

Kinect with Senior Citizens

I have been saying for over a year that Microsoft should put an Xbox with Kinect in every retirement home in the nation. I believe this would accomplish several things. First, it will sell Xbox units to the grandkids and their parents, which is good for Microsoft. Second, it will give the residents of the […]

Change we can LIVE with

In a recent article by John Lynn, he explains that ACOs are a good idea, but physicians can influence the outcomes and not control the outcomes. In my earlier blog I started to explain that ACO success and longevity will depend on changing patient behavior. This starts with the physicians. For decades, patients, and some […]

ACO: Maybe I am wrong and Payers will not be Partners

About a year ago I blogged, “Will we be reading in 2011 ACOs partner with large carriers?” I am hearing that carriers are staying away from ACOs and are not planning on partnering. What have you heard? Was my assumption incorrect in 2011?

ACO – A Brave New Enterprise: Are you ready?

Racing towards an ACO and Population Management this year is a huge challenge. A new enterprise platform is a must for an ACO to coordinate the changing of Provider and Payer processes and behavior not to mention the Shared Savings contracts which require new measurements and reporting: a shared dashboard. Check out Martin Sizemore’s take […]

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