The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act establishes a national voluntary program for accountable care organizations (ACOs) by January 2012 under the auspices of the Centers for Medicare and ...

The success of health reform efforts will depend, in part, on creating new and better ways to organize, deliver, and pay for health care. Increasingly central to this idea is the accountable care ...

A structured, peer-accountability learning system across regions and organizations mitigates institutional silos and accelerates adoption of proven prevention practices, with scalable reach beyond ...

Participation in accountable care organizations (ACOs) demonstrated more favorable outcomes for patients with diabetes in rural areas compared with those in urban areas, particularly in kidney ...

New research finds ACO digital infrastructure is shifting from retrospective reporting to risk-bearing operating command centers as payer APIs, APP Plus, care orchestration, and vendor accountability ...