Align and Thrive: Matching Information Exchange with Financial Flows

This panel will identify and discuss how care delivery organizations & payers thrive when information is shared between participants & interconnected with financial systems that govern reimbursement.  People, process, and technology considerations all significantly determine the resultant degree of system-wide (in)efficiency. To that end, Innovative technology, available today, can be aligned to support next generation Value-based care payer contracts, accelerate the incentives that motivate healthcare providers and importantly deliver optimized patient outcomes while reducing organization “burnout”.

ACG in the News

September 2022

PBMI Innovation Challenge  Orlando, Florida

Innovation Challenge of 2022 Win!

MJH Life Sciences® created, organized, and promoted the PBMI Innovation Challenge of 2022.

This innovation Challenge was designed to foster a patient-centric innovation community. Focused on innovative solutions for improved clinical and economic processes/technologies to benefit all across the patient care continuum.

September 8, of this year, ACG’s COGNITIVE HEALTHCARE technology (for navigating the chaos of healthcare) came in First Place. Our first-place prize includes a $100,000 marketing package and feature article in the Managed Healthcare Executive Magazine circulating to 45,000 payor decision-makers.

Stay tuned… we have a lot to say!

ACG in the News

November 2022

Dr. Dew will be serving as a judge for the 4th Annual 2022 UCSF Health Hub Digital Health Awards. Health Hub: Digital Health Awards recognizes the best and brightest stars in the digital health sphere that are changing the face of healthcare. This year, 2,000+ companies are expected to apply to win a coveted trophy and recognition as best in their category by a panel of judges and sponsors, investors, and medical research centers. The Grand Finale Event will take place at the annual HLTH Conference in Las Vegas on November 14th.

FOS Annual Meeting  Palm Beach, Florida

The following paper has been accepted to the Florida Orthopaedic Society Annual Meeting:

“Comparison of Hospital Outpatient Pricing to Ambulatory Pricing for Orthopaedic Procedures and Imaging”

Institutions can now use ACG Site of Service appropriate use guidelines for outpatient imaging and surgery.

AAOS Annual Meeting  Chicago, Illinois

Orthopedic Entrepreneurism: Take Your Idea from Concept to a Company with Insights From OrthoFounders

Interested in starting your own company? Learn the pearls and pitfalls about orthopedic startups from orthopedic surgeons who have done it.

23 March 2022

AAOS Annual Meeting  Chicago, Illinois

Dr. Dew will give an Instructional Course Lecture at the AAOS annual meeting in Chicago concentrating on FDA regulatory issues of medical devices (including software as a medical device) and protecting intellectual property both in the United States and abroad.

ACG in the News

Congratulations to team ACG for obtaining an Israeli patent that will issue today (February 1, 2022) on the following:

"Method and platform/system for creating a web-based form that incorporates an embedded knowledge base, wherein the form provides automatic feedback to a user during and following completion of the form"

This technology helps form part of the basis of our highly advanced expert system for cognitive medicine and wellness. ACG's H.O.L.M.E.S. intelligence system continues to organize the world's medical information and data to make it useful and valuable.

AAOS Annual Meeting  San Diego, California

Orthopedic Entrepreneurism: Take Your Idea from Concept to a Company with Insights From OrthoFounders

Are you interested in starting your own company? Learn the pearls and pitfalls about orthopedic startups from orthopedic surgeons who have done it.

PBMs partnering with ACG will solve the problem of the economic burden of drug utilization management for payors, manufacturers, physicians, and patients to the tune of $93.3 billion that does not contribute to patient care. (Howell et. al., HA 2021.) “Payers spend approximately $6 billion annually administering drug utilization management, and manufacturers spend approximately $24.8 billion supporting patient access in response. Physicians devote approximately $26.7 billion in time spent navigating utilization management, whereas patients spend approximately $35.8 billion annually in drug cost sharing, even after taking advantage of manufacturer and philanthropic sources of financial support.”

ACG’s automation and associated APIs benefit all stakeholders for a de-escalation of utilization management while still doing the right thing for the patient and those who pay for that care. ACG HOLMES is in essence a computational educational and compliance platform that is always learning as an AI Expert System providing education for the consumer and provider with data for the payor, employer, or government.

ACG in the News

04 October 2018

ACG was noted as a clinical decision support tool in an article by Bill Siwicki in Healthcare IT News.  Read more...

ACG in the News

25 July 2018

ACG was mentioned as a leading vendor in an article by Bill Siwicki in Healthcare IT News.  Read more...

ACG at HIMSS17

ACG enjoyed a great week at HIMSS17 in Orlando! Our booth was busy all week and we met a lot of new people who exhibited a great deal of interest in out products. Thanks to everyone who stopped by or met with us to talk about H.O.L.M.E.S. and our other product offerings.

ACG Again Selected Finalist in 2016 Florida Healthcare Innovation Competition!

ACG's Dewey Dew, Chief Strategy Officer and Board Member, has been selected finalist for the second year in a row in the 2016 Fourth Annual State of Florida Healthcare Innovation Competition. Competitors will present to a panel of judges made up of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and consultants.  The competition will take place at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Students Win $17,500 in Prizes

"This student competition brought together the brightest student innovators from colleges and universities from across the state of Florida to showcase their innovations to solve the biggest problems facing healthcare today," said Michael Fountain, director of USF's Center for Entrepreneurship. Read more...

Doug Dew-Harvard Forum on Healthcare Innovation!

ACG's Dr. Douglas Dew has been invited to Harvard Business School and Harvard Medical School's Forum on Health Care Innovation, an invitation-only event to convene global experts, Harvard faculty members, and influential health care industry alumni. Read more

Dew Wins Second Place-Innovation Competition

On April 2, Dewey Dew ’16 joined Florida students from eight colleges and universities at the University of South Florida (USF) to present original ideas at the Florida Healthcare Innovation Competition.  The Rollins social entrepreneurship & business major won second place for a project he has developed since the age of 13—a patented tracking device that navigates the world’s medical databases Read more...

Dewey Dew-second place in Innovation Competition!

ACG's Dewey Dew won second place in this year's third Annual Statewide Healthcare Innovation Competition for Florida college students. Dewey, a Rollins College student and ACG's Chief Strategy Officer, received $5,000 for his patented tracking device that navigates the world’s medical databases- a project that he’s been involved with since the age of 13. Read more...

ACG releases first video demo on YouTube!

ACG's Dr. Douglas Dew presents our first software video demo on YouTube. Watch here...

Harvard Business School/Medical School Challenge

Automated Clinical Guidelines has entered the Health Acceleration Challenge sponsored by Harvard Business School's and Harvard Medical School's Forum on Health Care Innovation.  ACG believes their radically original inter-related product suite that moves in real-time with the physician’s workflow, guiding and documenting individual healthcare from first encounter, through diagnosis, testing and treatment, to revenue cycle & patient education , and onto predictive analytics, data mining, and coding and disease registries is a perfect fit for this Challenge. see the challenge

HIMSS14–Integrating capture of quality of care

ACG's Dr. Duane Steward was interviewed by GetInsideHealth during the HiMMS14 conference in Orlando, FL on 24 February, 2014. View the video...

HIMSS14–Cartoons create common nomenclatures

ACG's Dr. Douglas Dew was interviewed by GetInsideHealth during the HiMMS conference in Orlando, FL on 24 February, 2014. View the video...

Medical software firm draws interest from investors

Amid a recent thumbs-up from high-tech investment experts in Orlando, a local Internet-based medical software firm is setting its sights on raising $5 million in first-round venture capital. officials said this week...Read the article

Med-tech Firm Lands its First Software Deal

A company led by two veteran Central Florida high-tech entrepreneurs recently secured its first contract for Internet-based medical software designed to streamline the complicated process of qualifying a patient's care for Medicare or Medicaid coverage.

Med-tech Firm Lands its First Software Deal

A company led by two veteran Central Florida high-tech entrepreneurs recently secured its first contract for Internet-based medical software designed to streamline the complicated process of qualifying a patient's care for Medicare or Medicaid coverage.

Med-tech Firm Lands its First Software Deal

A company led by two veteran Central Florida high-tech entrepreneurs recently secured its first contract for Internet-based medical software designed to streamline the complicated process of qualifying a patient's care for Medicare or Medicaid coverage...Read the article

Med-tech Firm Lands its First Software Deal

A company led by by two veteran Central Florida high-tech entrepreneurs recently secured its first contract for Internet-based medical software..Read the article

Press Release

St. Augustine, FL – (May 13, 2013) – Automated Clinical Guidelines, LLC (ACG) announced today that it has procured its first major hospital contract with Flagler Hospital of St. Augustine.

The contract covers a one-year period and licenses ACG’s internet-based software to generate a structured clinical documentation compliance package with the ability to conduct automated in-house audits for CMS Local/National Coverage Determinations (LCDs/NCDs). The first phase licenses ACG’s software platform to cover LCDs for primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty, and NCDs of the pacemakers and implanted cardiac defibrillators.

“Documentation is key to ascertaining and ensuring accuracy of coverage determinations – and continues to become increasingly complex,” commented Flagler Hospital Chief Operating Officer, Jason Barrett. “ACGs product streamlines documentation compliance and thus supports our ability to focus our efforts on achieving the best possible clinical outcomes for our patients.”

UCF Alumni and ACG Co-Founder Receives Professional Achievement Award

Automated Clinical Guidelines, LLC was one of the Table Sponsors at the 2012 University of Central Florida Alumni Black & Gold Gala, November 1, 2012. Dr. Dew received the Professional Achievement award from the College of Arts and Sciences at the Gala. View the video...

imobilehealthrecord

Mobile-enabled EMR developed-doctor, teenage son

In an interesting example of garage app development, a Florida-based physician and his teenage son just launched an intriguingly simple mobile electronic medical record, iMobileHealthRecord. Dr. Douglas Dew, an orthopaedic surgeon, and his 17-year-old son Dewey just received a patent for their system a week ago. Read more...

ACG Patent #7,962,348 Issued  

On June 14, 2011, ACG was issued a broad health IT patent containing 26 claims concerning a system and method for processing medical information using algorithms and symbolic logic. This is in stark contrast to today's database, template-based report writers that have difficulty processing complex medical information.

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EHR Benefits: Care Coordination

View a video from the Doctors Helping Doctors Transform Health Care website that includes ACG co-founder, Dr. Douglas Dew. View the video...