Accountable Care

While accountable care may be shifting some spending priorities, too few health systems of any type are thinking enough about how future changes will decide their IT needs, says Deloitte.

The provider organization has been working with a health IT and services vendor with a two-solution strategy that is enabling the organization’s transition from fee-for-service to fee-for-value.

The enterprise software vendor will also be making the case for putting ERP in the cloud at the upcoming health IT conference.

The healthcare venture formed by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase has hired insurance executive Dana Gelb Safran as head of measurement, a data-driven technology position, according to CNBC.

The clinically integrated network, with 10 payer feeds, more than 40 practice billing systems and around 20 EHR feeds across two large health systems, has aggregated data from 1,380 physicians across 185 practice locations.

Carilion Clinic has been on a path toward value-based care for more than a decade, but staff realized they needed more support in gaining better insights into their patient population.

The accountable care organization connected 14 disparate EHR systems to get meaningful analytics, helping with population health and value-based reimbursement.

A case study about how tech helped Princeton reduce inpatient utilization by 5 percent and decrease expenditures in post-acute care by 12 percent since it began with the MSSP program.

The Einstein Medical Center wanted to decrease readmissions for liver failure patients by 50 percent.

New rule would advance interoperability, streamline measures accountable care organizations need to report and pay for more types of virtual visits.