We missed our #ACOchat today due to other commitments and a full schedule. Our intention is for the ‘TweetChat to run on a weekly basis, with Tuesday at 3PM Eastern/12 Noon Pacific time as the preferred slot on the calendar. Though until we reach some community consensus or affirmation of the day, and time chosen, can …
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ACO and Medicare Shared Savings CMS Listening Session | Region 10
CMS in its continuing commitment to be present and engage healthcare stakeholder voices in the complex challenge to re-engineer the complex and somewhat change resistant ‘healthcare borg’ (disclosure: editors words, not CMS) will hold another listening session on Thursday, April 28, 2011 from 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM (PT). To register for the event via …
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Fairy Tales, ACOs and More with Michael L. Millenson
Michael L. Millenson, President of Health Quality Advisors LLC, joins me on ACO Watch: A Mid-Week Review, on April 28th, 2011 at 11AM Pacific and 2PM Eastern. Millenson channels sentiments of the ‘bearish camp’ on ACO viability recently via a piece he authored titled “ACO Fairy Tale Faces a Rumpelstiltskin Moment‘. A portion of which …
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‘ACOchat’ is Born!
On Tuesday, April 26th, 2011, at 3PM Eastern and 12PM Pacific join us for the first ACO focused TweetChat. Our session moderator is Mark Browne, M.D., aka @consultdoc. During the 1 hour scheduled TweetChat, we’ll consider and discuss 3 to 4 topics specific to ACO’s. (NOTE: With this launch, we’ll add another scheduled TweetChat to …
Specialists and ACOs: Play or Circle the Wagons’?
By Leigh Page for Becker’s Hospital Review As hospitals and large multispecialty group practices gear up for accountable care organizations, procedure-oriented specialists are still trying to figure out their role in them. “Specialists are not taking the lead in the formation of ACOs,” says Aric Sharp, CEO of the Quincy (Ill.) Medical Group, a 130-provider multi-specialty …
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ACO Watch: A Mid-Week Review with Sheryl Skolnick, Ph.D.
On the Thursday, April 7th broadcast, at 11AM Pacific and 2PM Eastern, my special guest commentator is health care industry analyst, Sheryl Skolnick, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of CRT Capital Group, LLC, a Stamford, Connecticut based institutional brokerage. Dr. Skolnick recently published a report titled: ‘First Glance at Proposed Medicare ACO Rule: We Must Be …
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Ignoring Primary Care: Obscuring the Obvious
By Jeffrey L. Cohen Healthcare reform used to imply just regulatory change. As time marches on, it also implies market change. Most pundits agree that, whatever happens to the healthcare reform law, whether or not it is found to be unconstitutional, the healthcare business community is unleashed. Change is afoot! If you follow my nahsaying …
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Head Spinning Post HealthCamp San Diego, Health 2.0 Spring Fling and more
Whew! What a week here in San Diego, and the oven is just starting to warm up in this resource rich county peppered with cutting edge integrated delivery systems, pockets of physician thought leadership, encircled by high concentrations of bio-tech, life sciences and wireless health innovators, including forward thinking academic centers of excellence. What’s all this got to do with …
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Clinical Integration Key To Successful ACO Development
As posed by Jonathan Bush, President & CEO of AthenaHealth in a superb interview by Matt Holt, aka @boltyboy on Twitter (thanks again, Matt!), at the HIMSS 2011 annual conference in Orlando last week, A/C/O development for some institutionally led ACO initiatives is merely ‘code’ for the license to roll-up, or otherwise acquire physician practices. ‘Danger Will …
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HIMSS Post Script
Head still spining but lots to say on my trip to HIMSS 2011 in ‘Orlando-topia’! Processing this morning: ‘tough sledding ahead for EHR industry’ a vignette of an overheard conversation between a very smart EHR engineer, and a community hospital CMIO. Crystallizes in my view the ‘dis-connect’ between some in the EHR industry and their …
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