Accountable Care Organizations

7Jul, 2017

The GOP Healthcare Bill – The U.S. Senate Version (Part 2)

By: Charity Darby | Tags: ACA, Accountable Care Organizations, ACOs, Affordable Care Act, healthcare, healthcare bill, hospitals, insurance, insurance coverage, Medicaid, Medicare, ObamaCare

Why can’t we fix U.S. Healthcare? The biggest problem with the healthcare bill submitted by the Republicans in the U.S. Senate is that they have not tried to fix the same problems the Democrats were unable to fix in Obamacare. They have all focused-on insurance – not cost, quality of care and/or price transparency. We in the U.S have only begun to scratch the surface on the use of technology. Plus, there is no patient or consumer influence in the healthcare marketplace – NONE! Sky-high prices are what makes dealing […]
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10Mar, 2016

HIMSS 2016, Part 2

By: Charity Darby | Tags: Accountable Care Organizations, care-management, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), EHR, EMR, HIMSS, meaningful use, Medicare Sustainable Growth (SGR), pay for performance

As we noted in our last blog “every year the best and the brightest in health information technology industry via the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s (HIMSS) annual meeting meet for a week. This year it was in Las Vegas, Nevada. I will admit, I missed it; and maybe I should have gone to this one. I have received 100s of industry emails. Something certainly happened; so I will take two more blogs, this and the next, and move on to other things. There has been major talk about […]
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PWeR Blog

The GOP Healthcare Bill – The U.S. Senate Version (Part 2)

HIMSS 2016, Part 2