Featured White Paper: ACO Performance Models Introduction Population health management requires a rigorous analysis of both cost and quality. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and commercial payers have taken the unprecedented step of providing claims data to their participating Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), but they are unable to provide even [...]
Rick MacCornack is CEO of Northwest Physicians Network, a Washington-based independent practice association and multispecialty provider network that has experienced record growth in the last 12 months. NPN has seen an 80-percent increase in membership over the last year – a statistic that highlights the fact that independent physicians want to stay that way. [...]
In an update fact sheet released May 27, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that as many as 1,500 primary care practices will be eligible to participate in both the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and the new Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) program. The announcement was a reversal of [...]
AUBURN, NY and ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwired - May 11, 2016) - MEDENT and Clinigence announced today that Clinigence's next-generation technology, which includes clinical data analytics, data mining, predictive modeling and business intelligence, has been integrated into MEDENT's comprehensive EMR/EHR solution. MEDENT is a software development and services company focused on automating medical practices. The company offers an "All-In-One" EMR/EHR, [...]
Collaboration Between ACOs And Technology Provider Will Help Organizations Enhance GPRO Annual Reporting Process ATLANTA -- Clinigence, a next-generation clinical business intelligence technology provider, today announced that MD Value Care and Rochester General Health System Accountable Care Organization (ACO) have implemented the company’s technology to improve their quality data collection processes. With these implementations, the organizations will leverage Clinigence’s tools to fully measure their [...]
By Kobi Margolin When I was launching Clinigence, I recognized the value our cloud-based clinical data analytics software could bring to smaller physician practices that don’t have the time or IT staff to dedicate to quality data reporting. Yet only recently have I learned that even large health systems, with their greatly expanded resources [...]
By Kobi Margolin Recently, our family was preparing to leave the country for an international trip. Before we traveled, we wanted to make sure we received all of our appropriate vaccinations, including flu shots. Vaccinating our first two family members, who I’ll reveal later, was easy. We were in and out of the provider’s [...]
By Kobi Margolin In earlier posts, we’ve written about the importance of adopting new, advanced technology to achieve the clinical and business rewards that “early adopters” typically experience. Clinical analytics—sometimes referred to as big data analytics—is a technology that holds great promise for healthcare organizations of all sizes. Surveys show that large health systems [...]
By Kobi Margolin Historically, the healthcare industry has been slow to adopt new information technology. For example, it’s only been in recent years that hospitals and physician practices have abandoned antiquated paper charts for electronic health records (EHRs)—a lot of that adoption can be attributed to government incentive programs like Meaningful Use. Yet, not [...]
By Kobi Margolin The healthcare industry is drowning in a sea of data—we collect more information about patients than ever before with the best intentions of using it for improving quality and reducing costs. However, for a long time there has been a roadblock to successfully accomplishing these goals: how to efficiently extract clinical [...]