Accountable Care

The cross-vendor data exchange using IHE and FHIR specifications showed off promising strides, while the industry is still working toward more widespread, real-world use cases.

Caleb Anderson says changing payment models are likely to make hospital executives rethink revenue cycles, and consider outsourcing services to Cerner or one of its competitors, including athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen, Conifer and others.

The American Medical Association and 20 other groups called on the agency to refine Medicare Shared Savings to ramp up participation. 

Barely a year after announcing its ambitious plan to tie reimbursement to quality of care, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that 30 percent of Medicare payments are now tied to alternative payment models, such as ACOs.  

As more healthcare organizations begin adopting some form of a value-based payment model, only 3 percent of providers believe their organizations are highly prepared to make the pay-for-value transition, according to the new 2016 HIMSS Cost Accounting Survey.

Referral management technology vendor par8o Inc. has announced at HIMSS16 that it has expanded its relationship with WellHealth Quality Care, Nevada's first accountable care network.

Orion Health at HIMSS16 will unveil a data platform aimed at enabling precision medicine and a new management app geared towards participants in the Medicare Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization Program.

Mount Sinai Health Partners -- a network made up of the Mount Sinai Health System and a voluntary provider group -- has created an accountable care organization with Aetna, the companies announced on Tuesday.

Many providers are at a crossroads right now: Either join an accountable care organization or be placed into Medicare’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.

Privia Health will expand its work with athenahealth to ratchet up its focus on population health, the accountable care organization announced on Wednesday.