The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) introduced the ACO Investment Model (AIM) as part of the Medicare Shared Savings Program to encourage the formation of ACOs in rural and underserved areas that typically lack the capital for IT infrastructure or staffing investments necessary to form an ACO. AIM provided upfront and ongoing payments

Practicing physicians and staff are the groups that most need data support and are also least likely to receive this data in a timely manner. The CMS Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative allowed the Maryland Garden Practice Transformation Network team to design a practical data analytics dashboard that was useful and relevant to practicing physicians and

Burnout and occupational stress among healthcare workers are increasingly being recognized as significant threats to patient safety and care quality. Our speaker, Dr. Elizabeth White, discusses her recent study of nursing home nurses which found that nurses in this setting often leave necessary care undone due to inadequate time or resources and that this “missed