Accountable Care VNA Solution - Improved Quality while Reducing Total Cost of Imaging
The Affordable Care Act includes a number of policies to help physicians, hospitals, and other caregivers improve the safety and quality of patient care and make health care more affordable. By focusing on the needs of patients and linking payments to outcomes, these delivery system reforms will help improve the health of individuals and communities and slow cost growth.
On March 31, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released proposed new rules to help doctors, hospitals, and other providers better coordinate care for Medicare patients through Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). ACOs create incentives for health care providers to work together to treat an individual patient across care settings – including doctor’s offices, hospitals, and long-term care facilities. The Medicare Shared Savings Program will reward ACOs that lower growth in health care costs while meeting performance standards on quality of care and putting patients first.
The TeraMedica Solution for ACO's
TeraMedica's Vendor Neutral Architecture is built for easy deployment within an Accountable Care Organization. By connecting traditional electronic medical records and PACS systems, our VNA architecture can immediately reduce costs by eliminating duplicate scans, reporting, etc. The TeraMedica Solution offers:
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Seamless Integration to a Patient-Centered Vendor Neutral Architecture for Accountable Care
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Rapid Access to all patient images
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A Direct Connection to the Master Patient Index
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Zero-Download-Embedded Viewer for Bandwidth Optimization
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Programmable Physician-Centric review and management policies
- Many more Enhancements designed to deliver a high quality of care
The Benefits of a TeraMedica Accountable Care VNA Solution
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Easy and Quick Access to patient-centered DICOM, clinical multimedia data across the organization.
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Complete Optimization of electronic medical records within Accountable Care Organizations.
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Vastly Improved data access for each user, increasing physician acceptance and providing a better clinical outcome.