Monitoring the birth of an industry
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH In a chance conversation with my friend, fellow ‘healthtweep’ and patient empowerment co-conspirator Dave DeBronkart, aka @epatientdave, I learned yesterday that AMGA aka @theAMGA was holding their annual meeting in San Diego. This is perhaps the largest concentration of ‘doers’ in the accountable care movement. Many participated in the landmark …
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By Gregg A. Masters, MPH TweetReach for #ACOchat – Demonstrating the ‘digital footprint’ of a real time healthcare focused social media ‘conversation…. Reached 20,760 peeps via the last 50 tweets….Exposure: 180,892 Impressions Tweet Types Each pie slice shows how many people saw how many tweets and the impressions generated via the 8 Tweeps participating below…. for real time …
By Gregg A. Masters, MPH Some time ago a fellow healthtweep and colleague authored a post on his blog titled ACOs are STUPID. When I saw the title, I snickered thinking to myself here’s another cute sound byte in the then emerging chorus of ideological snipers taking aim at the Patient Protection and Affordable Care …
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By Lynne Thomas Gordon Healthcare leaders are juggling multiple pressures, including the consistent delivery of high-quality patient care, evaluation and development of accountable care organizations, the careful management of sensitive patient data, achieving meaningful-use criteria, making the most efficient use of the newest technology and stretching revenue to maintain end-to-end coverage of their bottom lines. …
Sponsored by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation & Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services On November 17-18, 2011, CMS is hosting its final “accelerated development learning session” (ADLS) to educate executives about ways to organize and administer ‘Accountable Care Organizations. The session will be held at CMS headquarters in Baltimore, MD. For more …
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Moderator: Barbara Cebuhar, June 7, 2011, 12:00PM, Eastern Time Operator: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, my name is (Shawn) and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Pioneer ACO Special Open Door Forum Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent …
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Just off the phone listening to Drs. Berwick, Gilfillan, and Jonathan Blum CMS conference call on ACO’s. According to CMS, the call replay is available ‘for the next two days’, via: 800.837.1935, use code: 68658167, held on 5/17/at 11 1:30 ET. We’ve recorded the session and it will be available via ACO Watch: A Mid-Week Review …
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