Effective Population Health Initiatives

    Accountable Care Organizations. Generally referred to as ACOs, these are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers that come together voluntarily to give coordin" rel="nofollow">inated high- quality health care to their Medicare patients. The goal of coordin" rel="nofollow">inated care is to ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, while avoidin" rel="nofollow">ing unnecessary duplication of services and preventin" rel="nofollow">ing medical errors (Centers for Medicare, 2015) (1) select an Accountable Care Organization and a program that is mapped to that ACO. Evaluate one of the program’s best practices that have been and contin" rel="nofollow">inue to be effective at promotin" rel="nofollow">ing population health. (2)a brief description of your selected Accountable Care Organization and a program within" rel="nofollow">in that organization that promotes population health in" rel="nofollow">initiatives. Evaluate the program’s effectiveness in" rel="nofollow">in promotin" rel="nofollow">ing population health in" rel="nofollow">initiatives. Then, within" rel="nofollow">in that program, evaluate best practices that promote population health within" rel="nofollow">in the community. In your explanation, consider the followin" rel="nofollow">ing: What seems to be workin" rel="nofollow">ing? Have they addressed any barriers?