Pursuing the Triple Aim: The First Seven Years

http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Publications/PursuingTripleAimFirstSevenYears.aspx?utm_campaign=tw&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=18431389&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_0aB_XAupDlnJ7GklJxTxUXuegD3tNEhflm4D0UkOl5wwvF158SFe7kYoq5CmlZ5RPLcMy0fca4HHy8_GXOT1SPi_Liw&_hsmi=18431389

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Medicare’s Rush To Risk: Confounding Theory And Practice, Leaving ACOs Vulnerable

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/06/19/medicares-rush-to-risk-confounding-theory-and-practice-leaving-acos-vulnerable/

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What’s Currently Known About ACOs?

Boulder’s Foundry Group hits it big in Fitbit IPO

http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/boosters_bits/2015/06/boulders-foundry-group-hits-it-big-in-fitbit.html?ana=e_den_bn_breakingnews&u=FAuoHGaGEPdmk4X6khnaiw045b16af&t=1434658962

Fitbit shares soared on their debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.

Fitbit shares soared on their debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.

243 healthcare professionals accused in $712 million ‘biggest ever’ fraud takedown

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/243-healthcare-professionals-accused-712-million-biggest-ever-fraud-takedown?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRogs6zNZKXonjHpfsX57u4rUa6zlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4GT8JlI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQ7LHMbpszbgPUhM%3D

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The Medicare Fraud Strike Force targeted fraud in 17 districts in the states of Florida, Texas, California, Louisiana, New York and Michigan.

Slow Going on ACO Risk

http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/HEP-317609/Slow-Going-on-ACO-Risk

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Even as participation in ACOs grows, providers are hesitant to advance to models with more risk. CMS has now extended the least risky ACO track for three more years.

Fifty Years In, Medicare Has Transformed Health Care. What’s In Store For The Next Fifty?

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/06/17/fifty-years-in-medicare-has-transformed-health-care-whats-in-store-for-the-next-fifty/

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Bill Gates just made an alarming point about what could ‘kill 10 million people in the next 30 years’

http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-on-the-need-for-a-medical-corps-2015-6?nr_email_referer=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Science%20Select&utm_campaign=BI%20Science%202015-06-16&utm_content=ScienceSelect

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Are More Americans Benefiting From Obamacare Than Realize It?

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/05/20/are-more-americans-benefiting-from-obamacare-than-realize-it/?utm_campaign=KFF%3A+Drew%27s+Columns&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=17797495&_hsenc=p2ANqtz–wUpBXshYPf0emsA5R277KkYCkbjFwuktPKlmsR49oDzfztYDKwyOivguGfwQbiEhkMw5mhefK4cPJ103U3G4jD39mHA&_hsmi=17797495