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Ken Gilles, Associate CIO, Essentia Health, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

But Ken Gilles, who was CIO at Innovis when it was bought by Essentia in 2008, saw it as a new beginning, and six years later, his role with the organization is going strong. Gamble: You mentioned before about accountable care. When an organization is acquired, it’s easy for the CIO to feel like it’s the end of the road.

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How Hospitals Are Reducing Medical Costs with Telehealth

American Well

This is particularly true for health systems that have become Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) or that are in the process of becoming an ACO. For these institutions, the mandates to improve patient care and reduce medical costs go hand in hand. billion in avoided inter-emergency department transfers, $270.3

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How Hospitals Are Reducing Medical Costs with Telehealth

American Well

This is particularly true for health systems that have become Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) or that are in the process of becoming an ACO. For these institutions, the mandates to improve patient care and reduce medical costs go hand in hand. billion in avoided inter-emergency department transfers, $270.3

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It’s mHealth but will it be a Revolution?

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Out of pocket expenditures for healthcare in 2008 were a little below 12 percent, following a steady decline of over fifty years. This still represents a lot of money but it describes a public expectation that insurance, private or public, will pay for almost all of health care. Such change is coming fast, really fast.

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Barking Up A New Tree

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The growing trend to single payments that cover individual lives, certain medical conditions and episodes of care allows providers flexibility to use telemedicine services whenever and wherever they make sense. Two examples: Medicaid - In 2008, 71 percent of the 47 million Medicaid enrollees were in a managed care plan.