Accountable Care Organizations

Regulations for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have recently been proposed.  While they are complex, DiagnosisOne offers one solution to meet the needs of organizations looking to form an ACO. 

The primary objectives for Accountable Care Organizations are to continuously improve care quality while reducing costs by eliminating unnecessary procedures, avoiding costly readmissions, and holding providers accountable for the quality of care they deliver.  The ACO requirements are also seeking to engage the patient in his or her care.  To fully realize the potential of the ACO model, clinical analytics at the population, provider, and patient levels and real-time, point of care clinical decision support technology with embedded patient education materials are necessary components.

DiagnosisOne offers providers the ability to adopt a step-wise, flexible strategy for the introduction of ACO-enabling technology.  Utilize our smartWatch (multi-level clinical analytics) and smartConsult (real-time, scalable, point-of-care clinical decision support) modules based on our library of over 25,000 evidence-based rules to achieve continuous quality improvement and accountability. DiagnosisOne offers both clinical analytics and point-of-care clinical decision support off of a single evidence-based platform, smartPath.  The ACO regulations proposed on March 31, 2011 include this feature as a key component to building an ACO:

"The ACO would have an infrastructure, such as information technology, that enables the ACO to collect and evaluate data and provide feedback to the ACO providers/suppliers across the entire organization, including providing information to influence care at the point of care via, for example, shared clinical decision support, feedback from patient experience of care surveys, or other internal or external quality and utilization assessments."

The technology behind our smartPath solution is:

Modular: Our web-based system can be easily implemented initially, and can grow over time.

Intuitive: The solution is designed to be as non-disruptive to clinicians and existing workflow as possible.

Adaptable: Functionality and content can be adjusted to reflect changes in provider needs, clinical priorities, deployment models and information requests.

The IT roadmap for an ACO is clear—digitize the information, overlay actionable clinical analytics and provide real-time, point-of-care, patient-specific clinical decision support, allowing caregivers to focus their valuable time on patient care and improving outcomes.

Learn more about the DiagnosisOne solution for ACOs: read White Paper
Read our blog post authored by Mansoor Khan, Sc.D., CEO, to learn more about the future of healthcare delivery and continuous quality improvement.