The topic of bundled payments, and how healthcare organizations and ACOs will respond, has been a vital point of discussion as of late. As a result, my favorite read last week was Bundled Payments: Challenges & Opportunities written by Sheldon Hamburger and Erica Jankelovitz, JD, on the HIMSS site. For the uninitiated, bundled payments are […]
Posts Tagged ‘ACO’
Top 5 Technology Trends in Healthcare – December 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 […]
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, […]
Profitability and Cost Management for Healthcare Providers
Oracle enterprise healthcare solutions provide the framework to accelerate compliance to Accountable Care Organization (ACO) reporting requirements by providing a comprehensive healthcare data model, pre-built integration to many of the major EMR vendors, and world class performance management tools to harness Business Intelligence and Analytics, Profitability & Cost Management, and Big Data … all necessary for Population […]
Health Exchanges Need More Emphasis
No one likes to be sick, but it is encouraging that so much information is at our fingertips to help understand our ailments and more importantly how we can prevent becoming ill in the first place. The Internet is not enough though… Last fall, I experienced a circumstance related to the care of my elderly […]
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 […]