HIE Networks has the technology tools needed to build an Accountable Care Organization (ACO). By working together to achieve “Clinical Integration,” high-quality health care can be delivered to patients at lower cost with better outcomes.
Now that the final rules of ACO have been published, the HIE Networks platform serves as the backbone necessary to reach Clinical Integration. Did you know that under current guidance, you don’t need to even be on Electronic Health Records (EHR) to qualify as an ACO? HIE Networks has developed tools that allow health care documents to move around the HIE without the need of an EHR. If you are on EHR, it can be interfaced to the HIE Networks platform for real-time data transfer.
Visit HealthCare.gov or CMS.gov for a nice overview and FAQ sheet of the program.
Benefits include:
- Having the most complete history of a patient’s medical care from each provider member.
- Electronic tools to streamline common tasks: updating and accessing patient records, referrals, disease registries, admissions, orders, etc.
- The ability to ease into new IT systems with minimal disruption to current office systems and protocols.
- Help in selecting IT equipment needed to link to centralized information.
- Fewer medical errors and more efficient delivery of care.
- Improved patient outcomes & satisfaction.
- Help in monitoring patient compliance.
- Enhanced quality of patient-physician relationships.
- Technical and medical assistance with pay-for-performance and incentive programs.
- The support needed to keep independent physician practices in business, providing a competitive alternative to the employed physician model.
- Community recognition as a physician practice network based on technology, innovation and extraordinary quality of care.
- A higher degree of interdependence, cooperation and seamless care among primary care physicians, specialty care physicians and other providers, such as hospitals, labs and radiologists.
