Accountable Care

The analytics company says the technology expertise of MAeHC, whose CEO Micky Tripathi will join Arcadia's leadership team, will help it expand its interoperability offerings for population health management

Healthcare organizations shouldn't just pursue new projects for their own sake, say digital health leaders from Thomas Jefferson University. Success comes from keeping track of the good they do.

The COVID-19 epidemic has impacted many lives all around the world and the Australian government has ramped up its efforts to deal with it.

The collaborative, led by former ONC deputy Dr. Jacob Reider's Alliance for Better Health, is giving more than 7,000 Bluetooth-enabled devices to help community organizations and underserved individuals.

On another health IT front at the Alliance for Integrated Care of New York, data used to risk-stratify patients resulted in a $2.4 million reduction in total costs for the ACO.

In a HIMSS20 Digital session, the Honolulu-based health system explains how it "put the IT in capitation," and earned a first-in-the nation distinction for its technology-enabled improvements.

Population health tech experts from Enli Health, Epic and Optum showcase best practices for making the IT work best at healthcare provider organizations.

NAACOS and others want CMS to hold harmless providers participating in alternative payment models from performance-related penalties for 2020.

"My world before COVID consisted of taking care of patients one at a time," says one doctor. "Now, my duty is to serve an entire patient population." Other providers will soon have to acquaint themselves with remote monitoring and new models of care.

A report from two healthcare CIOs fighting COVID-19 in Italy and Germany is just one of the many virtual presentations available, with many more still to come in the months ahead.