by Brett Kinsler | Jan 22, 2019 | Conferences, Practice Transformation, Transitions of Care, Value Based Payment
A valuable opportunity in WNY to learn about value-based payment strategies!
Join Strategic Interests as we help a group of thought leaders convene professionals who provide care, services and solutions to people with special and complex care needs.
You will gain insight into Value Based Payment strategies, approaches, roadmaps, and tools to successfully transition toward VBP, with special focus on this sector, and you will have ample opportunity to network with other organizations facing similar challenges.
The VBP Forward conference will be held February 20-21, 2019 in Buffalo, NY at the Hyatt Regency.
This conference is appropriate for leaders and individual contributors from:
- Provider Organizations serving patients with special needs such as
- Agencies and organizations supporting the IDD population
- Community based organizationsaddressing the Social Determinants of Health
- Health Homes
- Health Systems, Primary Care Physicians, and FQHCs
- Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse treatment providers
- Home health, Skilled Nursing Facilities, and Hospice
- Payors
- Taking or sharing risk – ACOs
- Medicaid MCOs
- Plan Administrators including Medicare Advantage
- Firms Serving the Organizations that Support this Population
- Vendors: Population Health, Telehealth, Patient Engagement, Analytics & more
- Legal, Accounting and Consulting firms participating in VBP & Medicaid
- Venture capital & Private equity firms
This is the first conference of its type and the interest so far has been exciting!
- For a detailed conference agenda and link to register with a $100 discount, click here: https://strategicinterests.com/home-2/vbpforward2019/
- Speakers include Jason Helgerson, former Medicaid Director of New York, and François de Brantes, SVP of Commercial Business Development at Remedy Partners
- Included in the program is a panel on Transitions of Care (TOC), where local stakeholders will discuss challenges and approaches to address this critical aspect of care. Led by Strategic Interests’ President Al Kinel, the discussion will identify specific TOCs to be addressed in WNY.
As a client or friend of Strategic Interests, we can offer you $100 off the admission fee when you use this link: https://strategicinterests.com/home-2/vbpforward2019/
Hope to see you there!
by Brett Kinsler | Aug 13, 2017 | Conferences, DSRIP, HIT Strategy, innovation, Interoperability, Quality Care, Transitions of Care
Chicago, August 2017 — Al Kinel discussing care transition IT strategy at Allscripts Population Health University
As part of the Allscripts Population Health University held August 8 – 10, 2017 at Chicago’s McCormick Center, Strategic Interests president, Al Kinel, led a presentation explaining the improvement of care transitions using information technology. As seasoned implementation agents for Allscripts dbMotion product, SI understands first hand how the timely exchange of pertinent information positively impacts transitions of care from clinical, technical and strategic angles.
Kinel was joined by two SI clients who discussed their experience with interoperability and transitions of care: Erik Jacob, Manager of IT Interoperability at Rochester Regional Health, discussed the projects in Rochester from the Community Diabetes Collaborative through the merger of multiple hospitals and practices. Brian Henderson, Director of Physician IT Services at Sarasota Memorial Hospital presented the project connecting ambulatory community providers to the hospital’s health information exchange, SMHxchange. Finishing the talk, Strategic Interest’s Director of Clinical Services, Brett Kinsler, DC presented the methodology used to identify gaps and prioritize data elements to be exchanged to facilitate a Medicaid DSRIP program.
Chicago, August 2017 — Erik Jacob presented Rochester Regional Health’s interoperability process
Overall, the team defined the value of Health Information Exchange (HIE) with specific use case examples and described how innovative solutions can impact organizations and practices, increase care quality, decrease duplication of services, prevent unnecessary readmissions, and enable innovative payment models while attaining strategic objectives and enhancing partnerships among hospitals, LTPACs and community providers.
We appreciate being invited by Allscripts to present a topic we are so passionate about and are grateful to our client partners from RRH and SMH for bringing real life examples and experience to the discussion.
by Brett Kinsler | Jun 11, 2017 | Conferences, Transitions of Care
Much of the SI team will attend the Digital Rochester Transitions of Care program as president, Al Kinel, moderates a panel of community leaders. Discussions will center on improvement of handoffs between providers and organizations caring for patients.
Digital Rochester and speakers from the Rochester RHIO, Monroe County Medical Society, Rochester Regional Health, FLPPS, and Lifetime Care discuss the types of care transitions occurring in our region, the current challenges, and the types of technologies, analytics, and data exchange we’re using, or will be using, to better facilitate the transitions. The panel shares how their organizations are measuring and preventing re-admissions to the hospital through innovative programs, technological tools, and enhanced communication and collaboration. The types of care transitions the panel will be analyzing are:
- Hospital to Primary Care Provider/Specialist
- Hospital to Post Acute Care
- Hospital to Home Care (or to home with Primary Care Provider/Specialist oversight)
- Post Acute Care to Home Care
Healthcare administrators and employees, and other community members who want to better understand how health care transitions occur in our community attend this event.
Panelists:
Chris Bell, Executive Director, Monroe County Medical Society
Nancy Horn, Vice President of Clinical Operations, Lifetime Care
Dr. Sahar Elezabi, Executive Medical Director, Finger Lakes PPS
Gloria Hitchcock, Director, Care Improvement Initiatives, Rochester RHIO
Mark Klyczek, Vice President of Long Term Care Division, Rochester Regional Health
Joey Rosario, Sr. Director, IT and Analytics, Finger Lakes PPS
Panel discussion moderated by:
Al Kinel, President, President, Strategic Interests
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 7:30am
Irondequoit Country Club — Rochester, NY
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by Brett Kinsler | Apr 11, 2017 | Transitions of Care
Strategic Interests has deep understanding about transitions of care and how they relate to information exchange. We have performed in depth research and analysis into the care transitions of several systems, crosswalked the information exchange against national and regional standards and identified for the systems where gaps exist.
For example, take the transition of care when a patient moves from Hospital discharge to LTPAC (nursing home). There are pieces of information that are not routinely exchanged during this transition — like baseline SPO2 (blood oxygen concentration). As a result, the nursing home may have insufficient information to make clinical decisions and might send the patient back to the hospital sooner than would be necessary if they had this data. But at the present time, there is no standard to send SPO2 to the nursing home upon discharge.
Other ways transitions of care break down are with the failure to capture social determinants of health. Let’s say a patient is discharged from the hospital with a prescription for a much needed medication but that patient does not have the means to get to the pharmacy from his rural area and whatever available money the patient has is going toward securing a stable housing situation for his family. Without knowing this information and putting in place safeguards to ensure the patient obtains the needed medication, that patient will likely backslide and wind up back in the hospital — a needless readmission for a condition that could have been easily managed and a readmission that should have been easily prevented.
This is where the connection between healthcare and innovative technology becomes so critical. Systems can be adapted, workflows altered and innovative changes implemented to dramatically improve care transitions, provide better quality, reduce costs and keep patients from needless escalation of treatment.
If your system needs this kind of thinking, strategy, and implementation, ask us — this is exactly the kind of situation we love to help with!
Check out the article below in which Strategic Interests president, Al Kinel, is quoted in the context of transitions of care.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/see-technology-making-care-transitions-better
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