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Informedika’s Steve Yaskin Designs a Solution for His Wife, the Doctor

Posted by Mary Pat Whaley on April 9, 2013

I get pitched new products and services every day and it is pretty rare that I hear of something that is startlingly new. Informedika is just that – it addresses an old, old problem for practices in a new way. Continue reading for a very interesting interview with Informedika Founder and CEO Steve Yaskin.

Mary Pat: Tell us how Informedika came to be.

Steve: I am the founder and CEO of several high-tech companies in Silicon Valley and I’ve spent many years passionately solving problems using technology. In 2011 my attention turned to a problem that my wife, Dr. Inna Yaskin, faced in her medical practice every single day – the astoundingly inefficient process of ordering diagnostic tests and dealing with the results.

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Tags: ACO, duplication of tests, electronic medical record, EMR, imaging reports, integrating test results and EMR, laboratory results, making EMR work better, pathology reports, physician test reports

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A Guide to Healthcare Buzzwords and What They Mean: Part One (A through L)

Posted by Mary Pat Whaley on March 11, 2013

Welcome to our guide to Healthcare Buzzwords!

An acronym for “Accountable Care Organization”, an ACO is a model of healthcare delivery in which a group of healthcare providers agree to accept payment for their services based on the aggregated health outcomes of the patients they see, as opposed to the total number of services performed. ACOs reward providers in a “fee for health” model, as opposed to a traditional “fee for service” model. Although the term ACO can apply to a variety of types of organizations, regulations for establishing ACOs to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program specifically were included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.