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September 8, 2017
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FierceHealthcare | September 5, 2017

As Texas  recovers from the unprecedented devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, Houston residents affected by the storm will have access to medical providers throughout the country in ways that haven't been fully utilized during previous large-scale disasters. Relief efforts are getting a boost from technology vendors and hospitals across the country that are offering free telehealth services to those affected by a storm that dropped 19 trillion gallons of rain across Southeast Texas... READ MORE   
   
 


HealthLeaders Media | September 6, 2017     

Accountable care organizations (ACO) are aimed at decreasing costs while improving quality of care but Massachusetts emergency department directors report an inability to meet ACO goals. Challenges with care coordination often stand in the way of hospitals meeting ACO objectives according to 62% of Massachusetts emergency department (ED) directors that responded to an Annals of Internal Medicine survey... READ MORE    
 



EHR Ingelligence | September 1, 2017

While most providers understand the goals of the value-based care system, many still approach EHR selection through a volume-based lens. According to a post by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, MD, health IT vendors are partially to blame. When advertising a system's capabilities, health IT companies should begin framing their successes in relation to what their services help hospitals accomplish rather than how popular they are... READ MORE   
   
 


AHCJ | September 5, 2017

Accountable Care Organizations, which were created by the Affordable Care Act as one way to improve the delivery of health care, may become an important want to reduce the wide variation in end-of-life (EOL) care, two academic researchers suggest in a recent Health Affairs blog post... READ MORE    
 



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