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Introduction to ACOs
- The ACO Concept
- Historical perspective
- Structure
- Reasons (cost containment, increase quality)
- Incentives
- Emerging Models of AC
- Montefiore Experience
- ACOs and Health Care Reform
The Clinical Transformation to ACOs
Care Coordination
- Methods and Strategies
- Transitions of care
- Specifics of expanding care hours
- Case Studies
EMR/EHR
- Selection
- Its use in various settings
- Changing your EMR
- Case studies
Enhancing Ambulatory Care to Reduce Hospital Care
- Incorporating clinical pathways into daily practice
- Provider education acceptance
- Using your EMR to incorporate ambulatory pathways
- Strategies to reduce readmissions/Companies that offer services
- Case studies
Provider Payment and Compensation Models
- Basing compensation on quality, efficiency in addition to volume
- Incentives for providers
- Models of physician compensation: what’s working, what’s not
- Using performance measures to assess quality
- Performance Measurement
Methods of Patient Engagement
- Reducing “leakage”
- Educating patients to become partners with their care delivery system
- Case studies of engagement programs
Physician Citizenship
- Physician “buy-in”
- Physician education
Disease Management
- Best practices data derived from collaboratives (a la COPD Collaborative) and other sources
- Burden of illness
- Coordination across the continuum of care
- Addressing high-risk and vulnerable populations
Assessing Quality and Outcomes – Utilizing Data
- Quality measures
- Incorporating outcomes into the mix
- Using the EMR to monitor, remind, encourage
- EMR analytics
- Quality dashboards
Setting Up Your Medical Home
Revenue Cycle Management
- Are you Healthcare Reform Ready?
- Bundled payments
So You Want to Work With Employers…
Direct contracting with employers – what you need to know
Vendor Solutions for ACO Infrastructure and Operational Support
Government Perspective
