HIE BLOG: Clinical

Health Information Exchange and Patient Safety

Patient safety is atop the list of metrics that experts say will lower the costs of healthcare most dramatically.  CMS has come out with a number of programs that seek to improve patient safety including  Meaningful Use of EHR (MU) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO).  These programs reward hospitals who follow clinical guidelines for recommended...

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HIE and Care Coordination in ACOs

The primary goal of the Accountable Care Act is to control the growth in health costs in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.  The ACA seeks to do that by rewarding groups of health care providers (the ACO) who can achieve better patient outcomes and the associated costs savings.  In order to make the mark,  ACO...

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