title: Getting up to speed. Execs detail IT needs, investments required to support an ACO.
abstract: The push for accountable care organizations means a push for more information technology that allows the sharing of data. So hospitals and other providers that are forming ACOs are feeling new urgency to ramp up their IT improvements. At Banner Health it means figuring out how to deal with independent physicians' "mishmash" of systems. "There has been an acceleration of interest," says Dr. John Hensing, left, Banner's chief medical officer.
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D060866:Accountable Care Organizations; D002202:Capital Financing; D007256:Information Systems; D014481:United States