Healthcare IT News March 10, 2017
Looking at 400 accountable care organizations, University of Texas researchers found that ACOs can use health IT to improve overall efficiency by coordinating care and providing better services.
For all the talk about economies of scale in healthcare and other industries, accountable care organizations are not exactly enjoying those at this point in time, according to Indranil Bardhan, professor of information systems at The University Of Texas At Dallas.
Bardhan and his team conducted a three-year study of the performance of 400 accountable care organizations, with 2013-2015 data drawn from the databases of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
“We uncovered very interesting insights; for example, the size of an ACO in terms of beneficiaries covered is inversely related...
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