Accountable Care Organization Analytics
Accountable Care Organizations are here. Shrinking margins, low reimbursement, and hospital-physician alignment are at the heart of ACOs and are prompting hospitals to consider better ways for improving quality while keeping costs under control. Another challenge facing hospitals is how to deliver efficient care. Healthcare reform, over the next few years, will begin to penalize providers who are unable to meet the efficient care guidelines released by CMS in 2011.
As the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) emerges as an important care delivery and financing model to address the challenges of rising health care costs and fragmented care delivery, the future of ACOs remains dependent on defining payment mechanisms, establishing a financially viable structure, and regularly monitoring the success of these programs with powerful analytics. What is certain is that providers need to transform both the organization and delivery of care to create a successful ACO system.
In the face of already insurmountable challenges, how do providers begin to focus on the clinical integration of providers, with incentives for providing care and focusing on quality while reducing overall utilization?
This type of challenge requires a number of core competencies that must be addressed in order to meet the challenge. Hospitals must:
- Integrate new analytic-IT Systems to report and measure quality and cost
- Build patient volume and drive support
- Develop the right compensation model for physicians
- Change physician behavior
- Focus on the continuum of care
Proven Expertise in ACO Analytics
Interpoint Partners has the solution. We have been providing cutting edge technology for years that enable hospitals to work with their physicians to manage all facets of quality and performance. Providing ACO analytics, improvement performance measures and at-risk population identification, Interpoint business intelligence platform is the most effective path to accountable care reporting and performance measurement.
Interpoint brings together the expertise, services, and technology to achieve the highest level of transparency and collaboration between care providers within the Accountable Care Organization. Interpoint has the expertise to create and implement a technology strategy that will help accomplish your ACO technology initiative – from building the analytical capabilities of a clinically integrated organization, to developing vital reporting, forecasting and financial models to monitor outcomes and manage risk. The result is a technology enabled ACO system that achieves optimal outcomes across a population.
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