According to the firm, the healthcare industry's increasing emphasis on performance-based metrics and payment will boost usage of the ACO business model along with the supporting technologies that aim to improve care outcomes, including data analytics and home monitoring. "Reforms to the healthcare financial model tie compensation to care outcomes, and ACOs, built on the coordinated care model, align well with this new emphasis," said Harry Wang, Parks Associates' director of health and mobile product research.

From the article "ACO enrollment expected to top 130M by 2017" by Judy Packer-Tursman.

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