Robert Rowley, EHR Bloggers
“The cost escalation of health care in the U.S., which is outstripping the growth of the national economy and therefore taking up a larger segment of the total gross domestic product, is a concern everywhere. Policy makers have addressed the questions involved in this issue in the public arena, meanwhile private insurers are looking at this issue in their own ways.
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Jenifer Greenway, HealthWorks Collective
“IDC Health Insights is an advisory services and market research firm that closely follows the payer, provider and life science segments of the healthcare industry, with special emphasis on developing and employing strategies that leverage IT investments to maximize organizational performance.
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Patty Enrado, Healthcare IT News
“Brown & Toland Physicians’ recent selection of Allscripts Community Record, powered by dbMotion, represents a big step toward realizing the IPA’s vision of providing clinical integration and connectivity for its 1,500 primary care and specialty physicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Brita Van Fossen, Health IT Pulse
“In recent weeks, the idea of collaboration has been fresh on the minds of health care leaders. The accountable care organizations (ACO) model, recently discussed at length at the Partners Healthcare Connected Health Symposium 2011, endorses the idea of collaborative care and communication among primary care providers, emergency service providers and patients themselves.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Although most healthcare organizations are now focused on getting their electronic health records (EHR) systems running properly, many are also setting their sights on the technology needed to meet ICD-10 compliance, support accountable care organizations (ACOs), and maintain systems that will reduce hospital readmissions, according to Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts.
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Don Fluckinger, SearchHealthIT
“The Partners Healthcare Connected Health Symposium 2011 showcased demonstrations of technology’s incredible potential for extending health care into the patient’s home.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The final rule for accountable care organizations relieved providers from some of the immediate pressures of establishing health IT, but electronic health records and other technologies will be critical to coordinate care to improve quality and lower costs.
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Steve, EMR Daily News
“The theme of Mr. Tempesco’s presentation was that, while numerous forms of organizational structures have attempted to create value from health data exchange, including Community Health Information Organizations and Regional Health Information Organizations, ACOs may in fact be the model that will finally cause the financial need for clinical data exchange that has eluded healthcare delivery for decades.
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Brandon Savage, EHR Scope
“Over the next two years, electronic health record (EHR) adoption in the U.S. is expected to reach very high levels as healthcare organizations continue to progress in the vast arena of delivery system reform by reducing costs and improving quality of care. The federal government will invest $30 billion in healthcare IT in the next decade, primarily through financial incentives for healthcare providers who demonstrate Meaningful Use of their EHR.
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MD News
“As physicians continue to transition their paper-based records to electronic health records (EHRs), emphasis has been put on meeting meaningful use requirements. While this is important, many have overlooked the role of EHRs in the success of accountable care organizations (ACOs).
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David Hastoglis, Healthcare IT Solutions
“An Enterprise HIE is defined as the mobilization of healthcare information electronically across organizations. The Enterprise HIE can be used to move information within a region, community or hospital system. As such, the Enterprise HIE system is a great answer to problems found when forming an ACO. HIE provides the capability to electronically move clinical information among disparate health care information systems while maintaining the meaning of the information being exchanged. 
A HIE can also assist public health authorities in the analysis of the health of the population, which aids the cost cutting goals of accountable care. Ultimately, the goal of an HIE is to facilitate access to and retrieval of clinical data.”
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Depending on an organization’s stage of development, it might be implementing an EHR, attesting to Meaningful Use, preparing to take financial risk for care, or forming or joining an accountable care organization (ACO).
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Dave Chase, TechCrunch
“The problem for a company like Google or Microsoft is their success is measured in the tens of millions. Those kinds of numbers are only present in the legacy reimbursement model. Frankly, Google could have done all the right things, but if the reimbursement model doesn’t change Personal Health Records will remain irrelevant for most healthcare providers.
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) is pleased that the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking isn’t overly prescriptive as to how entities must use health information technology.
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Anthony Guerra, InformationWeek Healthcare
“The start-up investment required to establish and sustain an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is considerably higher–$11.6 million to $26.1 million–than the $1.8 million estimated by CMS in its proposed rule for launch and one year of ongoing operations, according to a study by the American Hospital Association.
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Evan Steele, EMR Straight Talk
“Anthony Guerra, noted HIT industry blogger and editor of HealthSystemCIO, has written extensively about the pressures and stresses facing hospital Chief Information Officers (CIOs) due to the myriad government programs making demands on their skills and their time. His recent survey revealed that a mere 16% of CIOs manage to maintain a relatively normal workweek of 40–49 hours, while 35% report working over 60 hours per week.
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Brian Eastwood, Health IT Pulse
“As researchers, physicians and vendors gear up for the American Telemedicine Association’s ATA 2011International Meeting & Exposition, the organization is making it quite clear that, for accountable care organizations (ACOs) to progress, restrictions on telehealth services must be lifted.
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Tom Sullivan, Government Health IT
“Nobody likes an unfunded mandate. Or, wait just a moment, do they? Some healthcare professionals involved in ICD-10 might actually welcome that particular conversion, after all.
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Jean DerGurahian, Health IT Pulse
“We talk about “silos” of information in the health IT industry and we must really wonder whether such one-way communication models also exist at the federal level.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Perhaps to fight conservative critics or perhaps because it’s truly what they want, federal health IT officials continue to call on the private sector to solve some of healthcare’s most vexing problems.
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