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THINC Overview and Demo
Susan S. Stuard
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THINC Background
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Projects and Accomplishments
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Demo of THINC eXchange Clinical Viewer
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BACKGROUND: MISSION, OBJECTIVES,
GOVERNANCE, AND GEOGRAPHY
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THINC’s MISSION
To advance health care quality and coordination of care
among health care organizations in the Hudson Valley
• Sponsors health care transformation initiatives
• Promotes health information technology adoption and secure health information exchange (HIE)
• Sponsors activities that enable population health and quality improvement
• Supports and sponsors rigorous independent evaluation
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THINC Objectives
1. Convene
Garner community support and offer a neutral collaboration point
2. HIT Adoption
Sponsor
implementation of EHRs and health
information exchange
3. Quality and Care
Coordination
Support initiatives that address quality and coordination of
care 4. Evaluation Assess whether interventions demonstrate improvement in
quality or cost
5. Funding
Secure funding for collaborative projects in Hudson
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Consumers
Operating Committees
1. Privacy & Consumer 2. Security & Technology 3. Quality & Clinical 4. Public Health 5. Finance
Board of Directors
Program Office Hospitals & LTC Payers Public Health Physicians THINC 501(c)(3)
Board of Directors
1. Physicians 2. Hospitals
3. Community Health Center 4. Public Health
5. Consumer 6. Business Committees Employers Community Health Centers THINC’s Constituents
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Current Participants (across projects)
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70 physician practices (at 162 sites representing
1000+ MDs)
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19 hospitals
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4 community health centers
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6 health plans
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1 employer
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7 local health departments
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7 mental health agencies
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3 consumer representatives
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Hudson Valley of New York State
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THINC covers a discreet
geographic area
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Westchester, Putnam,
Dutchess, Rockland, Orange,
Ulster and Sullivan Counties
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Have seen strong collaboration
in this community –
particularly the Hudson Valley
Initiative
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Hudson Valley Building Blocks
– THINC and its vendor, MedAllies, with a HEAL 1 grant from the NYS DOH, have supported the
implementation of more than 1000 EHRs in the last five years, a significant factor in area’s high rate of EHR adoption.
– THINC’s program has
disproportionately supported small practices, primary care and FQHCs
Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption rate above 80%
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Hudson Valley Building Blocks
– The Hudson Valley’s first HIE ran in two counties with six
hospitals from 2001-2013
– Hudson Valley going up on
SHIN-NY (state network) in July. Will cover all seven counties
– Add query across regions and alerting/notification functions
History of health information exchange (HIE)
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Hudson Valley Building Blocks
– 350 primary care providers achieved NCQA Level 3 PCMH recognition in THINC’s medical home project, run in
collaboration with Taconic IPA.
– A second set of 300 primary care providers are participating in CMS’s Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative
– THINC is convener for the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative
Medical home recognition of 350 PCPs. Another 300 PCPs in Medicare CPC project
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Hudson Valley Building Blocks
• Six health plans in the medical home project: Aetna, CDPHP,
Empire, Hudson Health Plan, MVP, United. Paid an $1.5 million in 2010 and 2011
• Populating a multi-year claims data set to enable quality and cost
outcome analysis by Weill Cornell
• Six plans partnering in CPC : Aetna, CDPHP, Empire, Hudson Health Plan, Medicare and MVP
• CPC project investing $20million a year for 4 years in primary care
Payor involvement and community-wide data set
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Hudson Valley – What Is Being Built?
– Community platform that supports value-driving
elements of health care reform
– 3 Medicare ACOs are graduates of medical home project
– 3 Medicaid Health Homes are actively collaborating
– CMS Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative
– Nascent regional planning conversation is underway
Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption rate above 80%
History of health information exchange (HIE)
Medical home recognition of 350 PCPs. Another 300 PCPs in Medicare CPC project
Payor involvement and community-wide data set
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Susan Stuard
Executive Director, THINC
[email protected]
www.thinc.org
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Appendix: THINC eXchange Screen
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