Medicare at 50--moving forward.

Accountable Care Organizations: Looking Back and Moving Forward

ust three or four years ago, accountable care organizations (ACOs) were being compared to the mythical unicorn – an intriguing idea, but one impossible to see in reality. Today, ACOs are very much a reality, with roughly 750 in operation – for Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial populations – serving 23.5 million people across the United States.1 ACOs are designed to achieve the Triple Aim of be...

Defining Integrated Knowledge Translation and Moving Forward: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Utilization and Case Management Programs: Linchpins to Provider Success in an At-Risk Reimbursement Environment

Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has taken a leading role in reforming Medicare, and by default, the entire healthcare system; i.e., Medicare is often seen as the bellwether for reimbursement change by commercial payers. Last year, on January 26, 2015, Secretary Sylvia Burwell of Health and Human Services (HHS) established a timeline for moving from volume to value: “Our first g...

Fostering accountable health care: moving forward in medicare.

To succeed, health care reform must slow spending growth while improving quality. We propose a new approach to help achieve more integrated and efficient care by fostering local organizational accountability for quality and costs through performance measurement and "shared savings" payment reform. The approach is practical and feasible: it is voluntary for providers, builds on current referral ...

Forward Position Kinematics of a Parallel Manipulator with New Architecture

The forward position kinematics (FPK) of a parallel manipulator with new architecture supposed to be used as a moving mechanism in a flight simulator project is discussed in this paper. The closed form solution for the FPK problem of the manipulator is first determined. It has, then, been shown that there are at most 24 solutions for FPK problem. This result has been verified by using other tec...