This Next Gen ACO relies on data investments to help track COVID-19 hot spots. Here’s how

Southwestern Health Resources Accountable Care Network, a major healthcare system in Texas, made a large investment in data collection and analysis as part of its participation in the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization program.

That investment is now helping the system learn more about the spread of COVID-19 in its region.

“We work with provider network to try to figure out where are the opportunities for us to help in the community and our membership,” said Danny Irland, Southwestern’s senior vice president of network operations and chief network officer, in an interview with Fierce Healthcare.

The system, which has about 29 hospitals and 4,400 physicians, has been in the Next Gen ACO program since 2017 and has been an ACO in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) since 2014.

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