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Population Health Management and The Care Management Platform Briefing

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In partnership with Kaufman Hall, Maestro Strategies presented an Issue Briefing and webinar, Technology for Population Health for the California Hospital Association. The Care Management Platform will power the future delivery and financing of care. Care management includes both the clinical components, such as care coordination and disease management and the business components such as network optimization and contracting arrangements. The Issue Brief begins with a discussion of HIT’s role in the healthcare industry’s transformation to a value based business model for PHM. It takes a close look at the three stages of readiness for future “connected health,” the progress made by hospitals and physician practices and the envisioned future for investments in HIT. The Care Management Platform includes five building blocks: Foundational Systems, Health Information Exchange, Knowledge Management & Analytics, Advanced Care Management, Consumer & Patient Engagement.

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Organizational Competencies in Informatics & Analytics for High Performing Health Systems

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Maestro interviewed CEOs from UHC, the alliance of the nation’s leading not-for-profit academic medical centers, Quality Award winners regarding leadership structures, organization design and operating models for IT, Informatics, Analytics and Quality.  From these discussions with twelve leading UHC CEOs, five emerging themes were identified as health systems make the transformation from volume to value.  The executives agreed that there is much work to do to leverage investments in information and technology, by creating “smart” systems, hardwiring quality goals and using information to design new processes and care delivery models.  According to one leader leader, “In academic healthcare, we have historically focused research on esoteric innovation which is about 5% of the opportunity and we were ignoring the 80-90% of health services that would transform access, quality and cost but we kept doing them the same old way. Let’s reinvent that. We need a culture of yes – care, deliver, innovate and serve.”

To download your copy of the white paper, click here:  Organizational Competencies in Informatics Analytics for High Performing Health Systems

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White Paper — From the Playing Field to the Pressbox: The Strategic Role of the Chief Health Information Officer (CHIO)

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Based on dozens of interviews with health systems across the US and additional research, this report looks at where CHIOs and their teams are headed amid tumultuous change in healthcare. Originally seen as the stewards of CPOE and Meaningful Use — and known as the Chief Medical Informatics Officer — the Chief Health Information Officer is now tasked with ambitious information technology initiatives spanning the health continuum, retail health and consumer engagement, and population health management. Historically, limited in its authority and with few resources for support, this emerging role is a key player who must collaborate with Chief Innovation Officers, Chief Transformation Officers, and CIOs to drive clinical integration, care coordination and value realization.

To download your copy of the white paper, click here:  From the Playing Field to the Press Box.

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Journey to High Value Healthcare: The Board’s Role in Clinical Transformation

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As American health care delivery transitions to a value-based model, transformation leadership will be needed within each organization to create the health system of the future.

In Journey to High Value Healthcare: The Board’s Role in Clinical Transformation, author Pam Arlotto, President and CEO of Center affiliate member Maestro Strategies, provides a guide for boards and the health care C-Suite as they align strategies, decision-making tools, processes, information technology and people to build new organizational capacity for clinical transformation.

This publication defines the role of the board in overseeing this transition and explores the concept of an Information Technology (IT) Committee of the board. It also discusses meaningful use of electronic health records as part of the necessary foundation for accountability.

The author provides a snapshot of where the health care industry is today in implementing meaningful use of information technology. She also discusses eight strategies to help boards develop a clear plan and evaluate progress toward accountable meaningful use. Assessment questions are included to help boards critically examine their own institution’s progress.

This publication can be used as the basis of a board education session or strategic planning retreat that focuses on implementing IT and using health information to drive delivery of more accountable, value-based care. Boards can also use this publication to guide discussion of how they can best oversee information technology resource allocation and implementation.

published by The American Healthcare Association’s Center for Healthcare Governance

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Consolidation, Clinical Integration & Transformation: Investing in Information Technology for an Accountable System of Care

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Few argue the point that the American health care “system” is broken. Today’s fragmented non-system is based upon the decades-old idea that physicians, through a one-to-one relationship with the patient, will seek out and know the best care for each patient, and that hospitals through episodic, acute-care interventions are the centralizing point for the coordination of patient information. Waste, high cost, duplication, patient confusion and poor outcomes result from a variety of factors.

While accountable care organizations (ACOs), clinical integration networks and patient-centered medical homes are fast becoming the trend du jour, there is little doubt that a provider-led, population-based, coordinated care process that instills accountability for performance and measurement of quality, cost and patient experience is essential.

This monograph explores three stages most health care organizations will go through as they build or become part of an accountable system of care. The concept of the care management platform is introduced and key information technology investments are identified for each stage. Finally, assessment questions are provided for trustees to critically examine their own organization’s progress at each stage.

Published by The American Healthcare Association’s Center for Healthcare Governance

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