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The health plan will host Epic's Payer Platform on Google Cloud with an eye toward building "an intelligence system equipped with AI to deliver valuable analytics and insights to healthcare workers, patients, and members."

"More organizations will be compromised," said the info sharing group as it urged updates to ScreenConnect software. The AHA said health systems should assess the effects of staying disconnected from nonimpacted Optum and United Health network services.

Systems across UnitedHealth Group are operational, according to the latest update. However, payment processing outages have been reported.

2017 saw Houston Methodist Coordinated Care Medicare Accountable Care Organization in the 40th percentile in some of the CMS ACO quality metrics. Today it's in the 90th. Physicians also have received CMS shared savings based on their quality percentile performance.

Dr. Will O'Connor, CMIO at TigerConnect, discusses the role of technology to improve internal and external communications for discharges and transport.

At HIMSS24, Southcoast Health's Jim Feen will discuss how IT-enabled service centers can be a "game changer" for consumers and offer sizable competitive advantages for health systems. He'll offer tips for designing them and KPIs to track their outcomes.

With customized EHR dashboards, the health system identifies metrics critical for accountable care so it can support all its providers – it's seen 200% growth in the past three years – with a tailored approach to caring for their patients.