Strategies for Building a Network that Maximizes Critical Application Performance EHRs, Telehealth and Beyond: A Case Study

Agility is central to delivering excellence in patient care. However, healthcare organizations have entered a new era of scale in which the amount of data captured, processed, and stored is breaking down every architectural construct in the storage industry. NetApp delivers innovative technologies and capabilities for an agile data infrastructure that address the challenges of big data scale, enabling healthcare providers to gain insight into massive datasets, move data quickly, and store important content for long periods of time.

Considering becoming or joining an accountable care organization (ACO)? You're not alone.

Healthcare organizations are experiencing unparalleled change and are seeing both a growth in the connected-ness of care and an evolution in what is defined as an enterprise. Accountable Care organizations underscore this evolution. The Banner Health Network (BHN) was selected to participate in the Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model, a transformative new initiative sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center. BHN was chosen specifically by the Innovation Center to test the effectiveness of several models of payment in helping organizations make a rapid transition to higher quality care at a lower cost to Medicare.

CIOs in healthcare delivery organizations face a changing and increasingly interdependent environment that creates new demands for integration. Many are adopting an interoperability platform that can deliver immediate and ongoing value while also supporting their strategic goals. Those strategic goals include targeting readmission rates as a source of cost reduction and implementing new value-based reimbursement models such as Accountable Care and Medical Home Initiatives.