Creating a Regional Collaborative
Description
How to create a regional collaborative to address the requisite healthcare transformation from a volume to value based system. Physician leadership is key to a rural community's survival amidst the myriad of requirements, shrinking revenues and access challenges. Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization collaborates with healthcare professionals leveraging HIT support services to improve the patient experience, as well as the quality and efficiency of healthcare in our region. We created a governance structure that is community-based and stakeholder-driven with a committee composed of physicians to drive quality improvements and population health management so that our initiatives are aligned with the needs of our healthcare community. This governance structure creates a natural sense of ownership among our hospitals and practices essential to community-wide improvement initiatives. Participants will identify how a community-based partnership can avoid the pitfalls of imposing change on the health system rather than shaping the system to meet the needs of its members. Learn how the lack of traditional authority can be leveraged to implement region-wide initiatives and resolve conflict in a rural health care system with multiple stakeholders. Materials Presentation (pptx) Presenter
Corey Zeigler is the Director for the North-Country Health Information Partnership for the Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization. In that role, he oversees a program that has successfully implemented electronic health records in 95 percent of primary care offices in the Fort Drum region. Through connecting these practices and the seven regional hospitals to the local health information exchange and implementing other care quality improvement measures, the community has achieved the highest concentration of Patient Centered Medical Homes in the United States. Corey previously served as the Chief Information Officer for Canton-Potsdam Hospital in Potsdam, NY, and as manager of a Battle Simulation Center on Fort Drum. Corey has an M.B.A. in IT Management from Capella University, Minneapolis, MN. He is also a veteran, having served as a helicopter pilot and officer in the U.S. Army for 13 years, in Desert Shield/Storm, Haiti, Somalia and Bosnia. Corey lives in Harrisville, NY, with his two children, 7 and 9, and one Bernese Mountain Dog (Guinness). |