Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Grow/Massive Mergers in Hospital Sector, Business and Industry Trends Analysis

An additional change in health care delivery, since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, has been the growth of “accountable care organizations,” or ACOs.  An ACO is a network of doctors, hospitals and other providers that take a coordinated approach to care for patients.  The health care reform act offers financial rewards to ACOs that meet targets for quality of care and cost.  The hope is that these networks will be able to eliminate duplicated or unnecessary tests and other procedures while developing more efficient electronic health records on their patients.  The goal of the electronic records is to…

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