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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)

Berwick and Gilfillan offer six recommendations for reinventing CMMI. My response is yes, but they don’t address the #1 issue: failure to achieve critical mass.

In a recent health policy viewpoint article in JAMA, Drs. Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan noted that, although the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid

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Dr. Ward April 7, 2021 3 Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

Hospital Value-based Purchasing program 1% incentive is like homeopathic medicine — too diluted to actually work

In the June 15, 2017 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Andrew Ryan and colleagues from the University of Michigan published an evaluation

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Dr. Ward June 24, 2017 No Comments
Behavior Change

Simon Sinek’s TED talk: Change minds by starting with why, not what

Improving health care requires convincing people to make changes. Changing a care process begins with changing the minds of the people involved in that process.

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Dr. Ward May 28, 2012 No Comments
ACO Culture

Primary care physicians acknowledge over-utilization and blame it on the lawyers.

Catching up on some reading, I came across this article in Medical News Today, describing the results of survey research conducted by Brenda E. Sirovich,

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Dr. Ward November 5, 2011 No Comments
Behavior Change

Google engineering too slow? Facebook too invested in the wrong data model to adapt? Are you kidding me?

Few things in my work life are better than finding mind-blowing information from other industries and figuring out the implications for healthcare. I recently read

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Dr. Ward July 30, 2011 No Comments
ACO Reimbursement and Gain Sharing

How does behavioral economics and “gamification” relate to ACOs?

The transformation of our health care system requires many different people to change their behaviors. Leaders of health care organizations have to be willing to

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Dr. Ward May 13, 2011 No Comments
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