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This June 22nd and June 23rd seminar in Las Vegas, Nevada focuses on trends supporting recent government initiatives to cost-cutting programs. Lung Centers of America creates a very interactive seminar where participants will get more involved with topics presented in a limited setting conducive to good learning and sharing practical ideas. Conference Agenda Conference Registration Form   more...

HIMSS Virtual Conference and Expo Track 3 - Accountable Care Organizations and Beyond: Moving Toward Value-Based Healthcare ACO1: ACOs Under the Medicare Shared Savings Program: Understanding the Proposed Program and the Role of Health IT Time: 10:15AM-11:15AM CT The Affordable Care Act directed CMS to establish a shared savings program to facilitate coordination and cooperation among providers to improve the quality of care for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries and reduce unnecessary costs. CMS recently released a draft of a new program under Medicare that will establish an entity and will create incentives for health care providers to work together to treat an individual patient across care settings – including doctor's offices, hospitals, and long-term care facilities: an Accountable Care Organization. Accountable Care Organizations have the potential to have a profound impact on the delivery of healthcare as it shifts the government's reimbursement model from Fee for Service to one based on quality and efficiency. Learn more about the new Medicare ACO model and integration of health IT to support patient-centered care. Review the key components of the proposed ACO model under the CMS Medicare Shared Savings Program Identify the data needs in an ACO environment Explore the role of health IT in supporting the creation and operation of a fully functional ACO Speaker: Alan Gilbert Vice President of Business Development AxSys Technology Jacob Margolin Chief Executive Officer Clinigence   more...

ACO Watch: A Mid-Week Review with Alan Gilbert On the Thursday, April 13th broadcast, at 11AM Pacific and 2PM Eastern, my special guest commentator is Alan Gilbert, Vice President, Business Development, AxSys Health Corp, a unit of AxSys Group founded in 1997. AxSys Health's goal is to utilize information and communications technology to improve the delivery of healthcare.  For details see: http://bit.ly/eQEDg6 Gilbert recently published the thoughtful piece titled: 'Today’s McGyver Approach to Coordinated Care Technology Falls Short', we'll discuss his thoughts in this piece as well as the trends in the move towards collaborative, patient centered care coordination. Quoting Alan: 'Aetna's acquisition of Medicity, Ingenix's acquisition of Axolotl, and the IBM/ActiveHealth Management partnership are three recent indicators of the changing healthcare IT vendor landscape - one that is in the process of consolidating to more sharply focus on the needs of collaborative and coordinated care. These merger and partnership agreements validate the need for an overall technology platform to support the rapid rise of healthcare models like Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) The market is consolidating, while the 'proposed rules' governing ACO's have only recently entered the 60 day comment period. We expect some of those comments to be rather 'lively'. For the complete article, see: http://bit.ly/gj6UOG Please join us for insights from Alan Gilbert.  more...

An In Depth Look at ACO’s Association of Information Technology Professionals Long Island Chapter Healthcare IT Special Interest Group An In Depth Look at ACO’s Accountable Care Organizations What is an accountable care organization? An ACO is a network of doctors and hospitals that shares responsibility for providing care to patients. Under the new law, ACOs would agree to manage all of the health care needs of a minimum of 5,000 Medicare beneficiaries for at least three years. Did that answer you question? If not come to this meeting to find out more! Speakers: Alan Gilbert, VP, Business Development,  Axsys Health Dan Morreale, Healthcare Consultant & Strategist Meeting Co-Chairs: Anthony Ferrante, Director, Bus. Dev – HealthCare,  CDI Dr. Scott Vinci, Doctor & Consultant, CDI AITP Healthcare SIG Co-Chairs: Blaine Atkins, AITP Board Member, and Director, Information Technologies, Phoenix House Foundation Nick Mattera, AITP Member, and Divisional VP, Business Development and Partner Relations Anthony Ferrante, AITP Member and Director, Business Development, Computer Design & Integration, LLC Sponsor: AxSys Health Corp     more...

Alan Gilbert, Vice President, Busiess Development at AxSys Health interviewed by Jennifer Dennard, Social Marketing Director at Billian's HealthDATA during HIMSS 2011 in Orlando, Florida  more...

February 17, 2011HLNY Program - How Accountable Care Organizations Could Cut Costs and Improve Quality - Physician Integration Approaches. Flushing, NY - For employers faced with soaring health benefit costs for their workers, the hottest buzzwords right now are accountable care organizations (ACOs).  more...