Westborough-based healthcare IT company eClinicalWorks will provide electronic medical records management to the New Jersey Physicians Accountable Care Organization (ACO), a group of more than 37 primary care practices, the company said.
eClinical said its trademarked Care Coordination Medical Record will allow the ACO to administer itself more efficiently through quality metrics and analytics. That’s crucial to the ACO model, which coordinates care between patients and health care providers with the goal of reducing costs and improving quality of care.
Dr. Vinod Sancheti, founding member of the New Jersey Physicians ACO, said in a statement that the organization was formed to provide a platform that “rewards independent practices for delivering quality care.”
Health care providers across the country are aligning with similar ACOs under health care reform, which encourages them to create population health management systems to deliver care more efficiently.
“We turned to eClincalWorks because of its strong functionality and success with primary care-focused ACOs, such as ourselves … Our aim is to partner up with more primary care offices that believe in the independent ACO model, and as we do that, eClinicalWorks will be able to help us scale,” Sancheti said.
