Private Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Gaining Traction
Mixed Results The results of the initial Pioneer ACOs are mixed at best – and suggest that ACOs will need to place more emphasis on establishing interoperability among desperate information systems and meaningful performance monitoring, measurement and management reporting systems. At the start of 2013, medical groups around the country began joining private ACOs with […]
Technical Issues with the Federal Health Exchange, Who’s to Blame?
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has now acknowledged that for many of the 20 million Americans that tried to access HealthCare.gov, the experience has been “frustrating.” Almost three weeks after the site launched, people are still struggling to search for health insurance, or even login. The press has been quick to highlight […]
HealthInfo Platorm
Earlier this year Patriot Labs initiated a working group to outline an approach for improving health within underserved populations and eliminating health disparities using mobile communications technology. The result was HealthInfo, a health information communication, outreach and engagement platform. The aim of HealthInfo is to effectively engage underserved populations with locally accessible health service providers […]
mHealth Information Clearinghouse Working Group
The mHealth Information Clearinghouse (Clearinghouse) working group is aimed at establishing a comprehensive resource for accessing culturally and ethnically attuned health information through a wide range of mobile applications and consumer devices. More than just a collection of health content, the Clearinghouse will serve diverse underserved minority populations with multilingual, culturally competent, and low literacy […]
Eliminating Health Disparities Working Group
Patriot Labs has established a working group in response to the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) grant opportunity to “develop a product, process or service for commercialization” with the aim of reducing health disparities in healthcare access and health outcomes. The Eliminating Health Disparities Working Group will focus on accelerating the […]