Fact Based List:

AJMC: 7 Policies in the Healthcare Environment that Affect the Impact of Accountable Care

  1. Governance and culture, which requires sufficient leadership to shift an organization’s focus toward achieving better patient outcomes and value
  2. Financial readiness, which makes it possible for an organization to bear risk and reallocate financial resources
  3. Health information technology, or the infrastructure and analytics needed to support patient-centered care
  4. Patient risk assessment and stratification, which makes it possible to target interventions
  5. Patient engagement, or embedding the patient perspective across organizational processes
  6. Quality and process improvement, or activities linked to performance measures and mechanisms that provide feedback on performance to provide better care
  7. Care coordination, or integrated workflows to support continuity of care

Source: AJMC: New Framework Provides Direction for Implementing Accountable Care Reform
Source URL: http://www.ajmc.com/focus-of-the-week/new-framework-provides...