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The rapidly changing landscape in health care calls
for greater collaboration among all stakeholders – providers,
payers, and consumers. While the national debate continues on the
appropriate approach for change, thoughtful leaders know that change
must be anticipated.
Strategies for Tomorrow (SFT) has built its reputation
on bringing communities and collaborations together to plan and
implement health information exchanges (HIEs). The next stage for
HIEs calls for them to be aligned with related initiatives. Two
key themes have emerged.
1. Expand the collaborative relations enabled by health information
exchange:
- Help physicians and hospitals achieve Meaningful
Use.
- Facilitate the formation of Accountable Care
Organizations with shared risk by providers and payers.
- Integrate data and applications into care delivery
work flow for informed clinician decision making.
- Expand the use of data analysis tools to serve
the needs of providers, payers, and consumers.
- Enable new uses for shared data – comparative
effectiveness, population health and clinical trials.
2. Develop new HIT/HIE migration strategies for
multi-stakeholder initiatives.
- Establish physician adoption approaches that
help practices and systems redesign work that supports patient-centric
models.
- Find ways for state-level HIEs, community HIEs,
and Integrated Delivery Networks to co-exist successfully and
be financially sustainable.
- Work with payers and providers to improve quality
and value around such initiatives as Accountable Care Organizations,
care coordination, data analysis tools, and payment reform.
- Develop financial sustainability models that
support these activities.
SFT’s Consulting Team
SFT has assembled a team of consultants that bring
a full set of expertise, collaboration skills, and deep experience
in the current health care environment. The leading consultants
are former executives who have worked for HIEs, providers, government,
and health plans. The consultants understand business and strategic
planning, financial sustainability, technology, governance, organizational
structuring, policy development, vendor selection, implementation,
operations, privacy and security, and collaboration building.
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