Featured Report: Telemedicine Network cuts emergency transport for ill babies

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Modern Healthcare
Illinois ACO sees improvement in utilization, costs
Jan,22,2014
by+Andrew L. Wang
Illinois' largest health network and largest health insurer have shown marked reductions or slower growth in the use of services as part of their 3-year-old accountable-care organization, an encouraging sign as providers and payers try to reduce the cost of care.
Advocate Health Care and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois started their ACO, called AdvocateCare, three years ago aiming to better align financial incentives between the two mammoth organizations. The utilization trends, which Blue Cross provided to Crain's, provide a glimpse into the progress of one of the country's first and largest commercial ACOs.
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MobiHealthNews
Heritage Group, Sutter Health invest $23.6M in MDLive
Jan,22,2014
by:+Brian Dolan
Sunrise, Florida-based MDLive, which offers telehealth services including patient-to-physician remote visits via mobile devices, has raised $23.6 million in new funding led by Heritage Group with participation from Sutter Health and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. The company’s first strategic investor and connected care customer was Norfolk, Virginia-based healthcare system Sentara Healthcare, which invested in late 2012.
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TDN.com
Telemedicine Network cuts emergency transport for ill babies
Jan,20,2014
by:+Lyxan Toledanes
Dr. JoDee Anderson solves plenty of complicated cases involving newborn babies in a snap. She knows when an infant needs help breathing and what steps to take to get a normal heart rate. Sometimes she doesn’t even need to be in the same room. Instead, she diagnoses through video.
Using a mobile “robot,” Anderson and 11 other neonatologists at Oregon Health & Science University farm out their expert care to rural and mid-sized community hospitals on the Telemedicine Network. St. John is the first Washington hospital to join the network, which could reduce transports of critical newborns to Portland and elsewhere.
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Modern Healthcare
Hospitals, physicians face mounting policy and market pressure to disclose prices
Jan,18,2014
by:+Joe Carlson
Growing pressure by policymakers, employers, consumers and the media to publicly reveal the prices charged by healthcare providers and reimbursed by payers is forcing providers and payers to reconsider their longstanding opposition to price transparency.
Last week, the CMS announced it would start providing information under Freedom of Information Act requests on how much Medicare pays individual physicians. Employers, news organizations and watchdog groups have been seeking that information for many years. The American Medical Association immediately protested that the policy could violate the privacy rights of doctors and patients.
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