Do Accountable Care Organizations Improve Patient Care? – InformationWeek19 Nov 2012
Do Accountable Care Organizations Improve Patient Care?InformationWeekCigna's collaborative accountable care (CAC) model revealed "favorable trends in total medical costs and quality of care," according to a recent report published in Hea...
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Preparation, innovation among keys to sustainable health information exchanges – FierceHealthIT19 Nov 2012
Preparation, innovation among keys to sustainable health information exchangesFierceHealthITThere are plenty of hurdles to health information exchanges--from overcoming interoperability challenges to protecting data privacy and security to convincing p...
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Accountable Care Organizations Struggle With Health IT Infrastructure – InformationWeek19 Nov 2012
Accountable Care Organizations Struggle With Health IT InfrastructureInformationWeekAccountable care organizations (ACOs) are taking a variety of approaches to building health IT infrastructures, according to a forthcoming report from Leavitt Partners,...
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Lawmakers to focus on health care – South Bend Tribune19 Nov 2012
Lawmakers to focus on health careSouth Bend TribuneINDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana lawmakers can add confusion over the federal health insurance law to their already overflowing plate when they return for their 2013 legislative session in January. If it wasn...
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Satisfaction with information exchange vendors drops – American Medical News19 Nov 2012
Satisfaction with information exchange vendors dropsAmerican Medical News“Building and supporting interfaces continues to be a big challenge for all vendors,” report author Mark Allphin said in a statement. “Providers expect their health informat...
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What States Should Build Instead of Obamacare’s Health Insurance Exchanges – Forbes19 Nov 2012
Examiner.comWhat States Should Build Instead of Obamacare's Health Insurance ExchangesForbesHealth insurance exchanges, as liberals have been happy to point out, were originally a conservative idea. But the conservative idea of health insurance exc...
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Health care law brings double dose of trouble for CCAC part-time profs – Pittsburgh Post Gazette19 Nov 2012
Health care law brings double dose of trouble for CCAC part-time profsPittsburgh Post GazetteTo Community College of Allegheny County's president, Alex Johnson, cutting hours for some 400 temporary part-time workers to avoid providing health insura...
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Patients may lose in provider tug of war over Florida’s health info exchange – MedCity News18 Nov 2012
Patients may lose in provider tug of war over Florida's health info exchangeMedCity NewsIt's supposed to take four years and $20.7 million of state money to launch the Florida Health Information Exchange, intended to connect health care provide...
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Medicare experiments with ‘bundled’ payments – The Union Leader18 Nov 2012
BloombergMedicare experiments with 'bundled' paymentsThe Union LeaderWhile applauding the pilot project, Kopp cautioned that the bundled payment system is only one step toward the establishment of what he believes is needed: accountable care or...
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Blog – After the election: How will new accountable care deals shape up? – ModernHealthcare.com (blog)16 Nov 2012
North Bay Business JournalBlog - After the election: How will new accountable care deals shape up?ModernHealthcare.com (blog)For hospitals and doctors with an accountable care organization—or an interest in the emerging payment model—Obama's se...
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New Orleans-area clinics connected through health ‘information exchange’ – NOLA.com15 Nov 2012
NOLA.comNew Orleans-area clinics connected through health 'information exchange'NOLA.comNew Orleans and state health leaders unveiled this week an "information exchange" that will link the electronic medical records of dozens of commu...
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Capital BlueCross, Harrisburg University partner to offer internships for health care analytics majors15 Nov 2012
Capital BlueCross and Harrisburg University are partnering to provide internships to students majoring in health care analytics, a rapidly-growing field... Continue Reading
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