ACOs Use Care Management Technology

The technological underpinnings for an accountable care organization (ACO) include all the basic healthcare IT, including electronic health records (EHRs), electronic medical records (EMRs), and health information exchange (HIE) for transmitting patient data between participating organizations that are not necessarily all on the same EHR. ACOs also need something else, according to Hackensack University Medical Center CIO Shafiq Rab, whose institution leads the Hackensack Alliance ACO in partnership with physician practices in its region. An ACO also needs software to fill in the gaps between the other systems and services -- active care coordination management. The medical center hired Team of . . .