*About Premier’s ACO Capability Roadmap
*Baseline technologies for an ACO
*From capturing to leveraging data
*ACO/MU ties
*Implementation sequencing: what to do first?
Steven Riney, VP/CIO, Methodist Medical Center of Illinois, Chapter 1
Premier Financial Tool to Aid ACO Transitioning
Experts from 28 health systems have developed a financial modeling tool to assess the economic impact associated with a system-wide transition to accountable care. Premier healthcare alliance Accountable Care Implementation Collaborative members will leverage the model as a decision support tool to assess financial risks and opportunities for their physician networks and hospitals in the movement toward accountable care.
Premier Releases ACO Roadmap
Experts from 28 health systems have developed an industry standard information management capability road map for coordinating accountable care, outlining the IT capabilities that will be required “to support the evolution of organizations from the current fragmented, transaction-oriented care delivery model to a fully coordinated accountable care model,” according to the Premier healthcare alliance. The organization’s […]
TEXT/PODCAST: Premier MU Library to Aid Members
Experts from some not-for-profit hospitals have created an EHR Meaningful Use Implementation best-practices library, as part of the Premier healthcare alliance Health Information Technology (HIT) Collaborative. Championed by Bill Spooner, CIO at Sharp HealthCare, and Craig Richardville, CIO for the Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), the library features specific instruction on ways to speed implementation of […]
Hospital-based Docs May See Green After All
According to the Premier health alliance, the Senate acted today to address another major concern that it raised in its comments, which is the need for CMS to modify the proposed rule to expand the eligibility for EHR incentive payments to physicians who work in hospitals. As proposed, the rule would prohibit EHR incentives for […]
Carolinas Medical Selects Quality Improvement Tool
Carolinas Medical Center NorthEast(CMC-NorthEast) of Concord, N.C., has selected Premier healthcare alliance’s QualityAdvisor solution to improve delivery of patient care. QualityAdvisor, part of Premier’s QualityConnect, combines analytical methods with a benchmark database of more than 600 facilities to identify clinical and financial improvement opportunities, understand drivers for variation in practice, and monitor quality of […]
