Your Next Steps in Healthcare Transformation offers a perspective, both educational and practical, on key topics for all stakeholders in the healthcare industry as it shifts from the volume-driven model to a performance-based and quality-driven model of care. A set of six major initiatives are discussed that include organizational change, quality improvement, technology advances, innovation, and process management. Touching on health information technology, direction setting, new care delivery models (e.g. clinically integrated networks and accountable care organizations), and community...

Accountable Care: Bridging the Health Information Technology Divide, First Edition, (Bridging the Divide) is a book, 17 months in the making, that touches on many elements of this technological journey with a focal point of clinically integrated accountable care organizations (ACOs) at the epicenter. As the nation and global health system shifts focus from volume-driven care to performance and quality-driven care, leadership is returning to the provider. This is resulting in a greater emphasis on clinical and administrative performance and on the priority of improving population health. Three...