Enabling the Success of Accountable Care Organizations with a Health IT Infrastructure (ACO)
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Proponents of accountable care organizations (ACOs) – consortia of hospitals and physicians that take responsibility for the cost and quality of care – assert that ACOs have the potential to improve patient health while reducing the waste in the healthcare system. But, for the fledgling ACOs to gain traction and begin to achieve that potential, they must build a new kind of technological infrastructure and fundamentally change the way that care is delivered.
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