Task Forces & Cornerstones

Aligned Incentives

Aligned Incentives; For All Stakeholders (4Ps) Task Force

• Define existing incentives, support transformation of healthcare system
• Monitor Pay for Performance Progress
• Assure health payment process doesn’t get in the way of real health reform; NRHI efforts
• Scott Barlow, Central Utah Clinic, lead

Patient Centered Medical Home Task Force

• Patient Centered Medical Home project is one key effort to change health payment to create value incentive (Health Payment Reform)
• Steve Nielsen, lead

Interoperable HIT

Clinical Connectivity Task Force

• HealthInsight working through contracts with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Utah Department of Health (UDOH) and the Utah Medical Association has created the environment to encourage physician practices to use electronic medical records (EMRs)
• Utah has the highest adoption rate in the US; 65%
• cHIE development linked with existing EMRs will allow, encourage and support exchange of health information
• Improve delivery of healthcare
• Provide opportunity to create value information and improve quality
• Scott Williams, lead

Privacy and Security Task Force

• Regional center for medical training is in Utah
• Transparency cannot occur without data exchange
• Multi state effort to standardize and simplify healthcare information sharing policies and processes to improve care delivery
• Improve delivery of healthcare
• Provide opportunity to create value information and improve quality
• Scott Williams, lead

Transparency of Value (Cost & Quality)

Transparency of Health Plans Task Force

• Identify data available
• Publish markers of value for consumer decision making
• Michael Stapley, DMBA, lead

Key Process Analysis Task Force

• Medicare data set
• Grouping software
• Define biggest bang for improvement dollar
• Match Utah data with Dartmouth study nationwide
• Brent James, Intermountain Institute for Health Care Delivery Research, lead

Public Reporting Task Force

• Have CMS data promised to CVEs
• Preparing to match data to commercial carriers
• Publish physician practice level (clinic) information
• Support existing reports; Myhealthcare.com, Price Point, Check Point, Provider Rankings
• Mark Bair, UMA, lead

Transparent Episodes of Care Task Force

• APD will make available best data for value calculations anywhere in the US
• UPV will support development of data base
• Quality improvement potential
• Greg Poulsen, Intermountain Healthcare