Complimentary from the publisher

Complimentary from the publishers of Accountable Care News December, 2013

"Participating in an ACO does present new liability issues for providers. One example is that because ACOs are emphasizing cost savings, they may be more likely to be suspected of placing financial considerations above patient safety. The fact that ACOs also have a goal to
improve quality and typically have more physician leadership may alleviate some of these concerns, but ACOs should still be cautious about offering physicians incentives to reduce care costs as this could be seen as a reward for limiting care." Paul Gardner, MHA, MBA. Senior Analyst, Leavitt Partners

"In 2007 somewhere around 7 percent of ambulatory doctors' offices used electronic health records (EHRs), and most of them were closely associated with institutions and medical centers that provided them. In 2013, over 50 percent of doctors in the U.S. were using certified EHR systems."

Excerpted from: Accountable Care News, Volume 4, Number 12, December 2013, What Kind of IT is Needed for Value-based Healthcare?

Community Health Workers Fill Valuable Roles in Accountable Care
D Healthcare Daily, December 4, 2013

Accountable Care and Shared Risk: Where Do We Stand?
Hospitals & Health Networks Daily, December 2, 2013

Bolstering mobile tools to drive patient-centered accountable care
mHealth News, November 21, 2013

Embracing Clinical Leadership in an Accountable Care Organization
PAs Connect, November 20, 2013

Can cost clarity marry revenue analytics and accountable care?
Health IT Analytics, November 19, 2013

Current Trends and Issues With ACOs
Becker's Hospital Review, November 15, 2013

Specialty Networks -- Opportunity and Structure, by William DeMarco, MA, CMC
What Kind of IT is Needed for Value-based Healthcare? by Robert D. Rowley, MD
Editor's Corner: Welcome to Vince Kuraitis; Analytics to Manage Risk for Insurer-based ACOs - David Hom
Information Technology as an Alignment Strategy by Michelle L. Holmes and Asif Shah Mohammed, MBA
Thought Leader's Corner: "What kinds of liability issues are there for hospitals and physicians in ACO formation and implementation?"
Industry News with briefs regarding South East Rural Physician Alliance (SERPA) ACO; Colorado's Department of Health Care Policy and Financing; Redwood Community Care Organization; WESTMED Medical Group; MedPAC; State of Vermont; Humana and St. Luke's University Health Network; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Munson Healthcare; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) and Tenet Healthcare; and Cigna and University Hospitals
Catching Up with….Vince Kuraitis, JD, MBA

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