Public Health Departments and Accountable Care Organizations
Finding Common Ground in Population Health
Bibliographic Data
We examined areas of potential collaboration between accountable care organizations and public health agencies, as well as perceived barriers and facilitators. We interviewed 9 key informants on 4 topics: advantages of public health agency involvement in accountable care organizations; services public health agencies could provide; practical, cultural, and legal barriers to accountable care organization–public health agency involvement; and business models that facilitate accountable care organization–public health agency collaboration. Public health agencies could help accountable care organizations partner with community organizations and reach vulnerable patients, provide population-based services and surveillance data, and promote policies that improve member health. Barriers include accountable care organizations’ need for short-term financial yield, limited public health agency technical and financial capacity, and the absence of a financial model
Agency (philosophy) · Business · Environmental health · Health care · Political science · Population · Population health · Public health · Public relations · Sociology · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Nursing · Public Health Policies and Education
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2018 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |