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For Immediate Release: Sept. 16, 2016 Contact: Rebecca Luczycki, PIO, 907-269-34955, cell 907-351-7269, rebecca.luczycki@alaska.gov Pilot projects will link school nurses to health info for students with complex health care needs, & improve breast cancer screening for women Federal grant will fund access to electronic medical records, tap

BY DR. THAD WOODARD President Obama speaks about the Affordable Care Act. In 2010 President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. The Act had the purpose of improving cost, quality and access to health care in the U.S. Six years later 20 million more people have

MACRA may drive alignment so that physicians can share risk, enter into advance payment models, gain access to interoperable systems, achieve greater market presence and economies of scale as well as improve negotiating position with vendors and payers.  Some of the alignment opportunities include joining Merging, Hospital

BOISE, Idaho, June 2, 2016 — Proskriptive, a data science company that connects healthcare groups with the analytics needed to deliver better patient care outcomes, announced today a partnership with Pinnacle Integrated Medicine, a company providing a clinically integrated network for independent physician collaboration in order to

Physicians organizing for payment reform I’m only aware of on successful example of providers contracting with plans in a outcomes-based payment model in Alaska. For the most part, fee for service is alive and well.  But a new organization, Pinnacle Integrated Medicine, is looking to expand value based