Healthcare Innovation June 4, 2019
Mark Hagland

The release of a new report by the Office of the Inspector General at HHS is shining a spotlight on a really difficult, complex set of policy issues around accountable care, health information exchange, and other issues

Challenges involving interoperability and basic health data exchange are dogging accountable care organizations at the very time that ACOs are attempting to advance care coordination to higher levels. That unfortunate revelation has been documented in a recent analysis by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as noted in a May 30 report by Managing Editor Rajiv Leventhal.

As Leventhal noted in his report, “The OIG, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health...

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Topics: ACO (Accountable Care), EMR / EHR, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HIE (Interoperability), Insurance, Market Research, OIG, Payer, Payment Models, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Technology, Trends, Value Based
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