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Technology key to population health management, ACO maturation

As healthcare shifts to model emphasizing more accountable care, technology will be an indispensable part of the equation, according to a report unveiled this week by the Institute for Health

What are ACO start-up costs?

That's the"$64,000 question" as the final rule was released last week . The projected start-up costs of an accountable care organization (ACO) can vary widely, depending on who you talk to. The

Security officers have new motivation to protect healthcare data

Want to throw a scare into CIOs, security officers and HIPAA compliance specialists, not to mention legal departments? Just direct them to DataLossDB.org , a project of the Open Security Foundation

New privacy rules, old technology creating a lot of headaches

What's driving people craziest about the big national push to convert to EMRs? Maybe it's the technology that some people don't like. Maybe it's resistance to change. Perhaps it's the short timeline

EMR success rests on culture change, MD buy-in, executive leadership

We know, we know, you've heard this before: It takes executive leadership, a willingness to change the organizational culture and, of course, physician buy-in to make an EMR implementation both