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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”.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ACG in the News

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

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

6 March 2017

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 Survives Hurricane Matthew

14 October 2016

After a harrowing few days, ACG employees are all back home in Florida. Everyone is present and accounted for with no injuries! We all have some damage at home, some worse than others, but we are all thankful that it wasn't worse.

The company came through with flying colors. Due to our cloud-based services and our redundant servers and off-site back-ups, ACG customers and partners suffered no interruption in services.

Thanks to all for your support and concern during this time. ACG and St. Augustine are stronger than ever.

ACG's Dylan & Dewey Dew home after evacuating from Hurricane Matthew

ACG Again Selected Finalist in 2016 Florida Healthcare Innovation Competition!

2 April 2015

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 Prize Money in Third State of Florida Healthcare Innovation Competition

29 April 2015

"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...

ACG's Doug Dew invited to Harvard Forum on healthcare innovation!

15-16 April 2015

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 at State of Florida Healthcare Innovation Competition

21 April 2015

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...

ACG's Dewey Dew wins second place in Florida Healthcare Innovation Competition!

26 April 2015

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's Dewey Dew Selected Finalist in 2015 Florida Healthcare Innovation Competition!

2 April 2015

ACG's Dewey Dew, Chief Strategy Officer and Board Member, is a selected finalist in the 2015 Third 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.

ACG enters Harvard Business School/Medical School Challenge

Published 30 September 2014

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 measures in routine work flow

Published 24 February 2014 | Article by Excerpta Medica

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

HIMSS14–Cartoons that create common nomenclatures for fractures facilitate care

Published 24 February 2014 | Article by Excerpta Medica

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

Medical software firm draws healthy interest from investors | By Richard Burnett

December 19, 2013 – Orlando Sentinel

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 | By Richard Burnett

June 9, 2013 – Chicago Tribune

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

June 9, 2013 – Hartford Courant

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 | By Richard Burnett

June 9, 2013 – Orlando Sentinel

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

June 9, 2013

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.”

About ACG

Automated Clinical Guidelines, LLC (ACG) is an innovative mobile healthcare ecosystem that is patient centered, real-time, language independent, and serves up evidence-based medicine for application on a worldwide basis. The ACG expert system represents a breakthrough in processing structured clinical information utilizing automated clinical guidelines while alleviating administrative burdens that do not contribute to care. For more information please visit www.automatedclinical.com.

About Flagler Hospital

Flagler Hospital is a 335 bed, acute care hospital that has been ranked among the top 5% of all hospitals in the nation for both clinical excellence and patient safety for the past seven consecutive years. The hospital has operated as a not-for-profit healthcare institution in St. Augustine, Florida since its founding in 1889. The hospital has earned accreditation from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, the Gold Seal of Approval™ from The Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Care Centers, national accreditation for its total hip and total knee replacement programs, and Center of Excellence Designation for its Bariatric Surgery Center. For more information, log on to www.flaglerhospital.org.

Contact

To learn more about ACG and its product offerings please contact either:

Douglas K. Dew, CEO:  douglas.dew@automatedclinical.com

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. Click on the photo below to see the video.

imobilehealthrecord

Mobile-enabled EMR developed by 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.

"A system for guiding a user's examination of a patient and generating a transcript, the system comprising a processor in communication with an output display device and a user interface, the processor programed to output to the display device..."

"The system provides for complete and accurate coding of physical examination and radiological findings using standard nomenclature, which is especially useful for CMS and other insurance reimbursements." Read more...