Network Collaboration Workshop: How-to for Adding Value to Your Network
Pre-Conference Workshop Fee: $50 (waived if you register before June 2nd, courtesy of National Rural Health Resource Center)
Kap Wilkes, Program Manager, National Rural Health Resource Center
Joe Wivoda, Chief Information Officer, National Rural Health Resource Center
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Pre-Conference Workshop: 3.5 hours
Rural health networks provide value to their members and contribute to the health and wellness of their communities with effective collaboration. This pre-conference training, discussion, and workshop is designed for rural health network leaders to improve skills, learn from stories, and build capacity for meaningful and impactful collaborations. Description The Network Collaboration Workshop is a 3.5 hour interactive session providing specific knowledge, peer discussion, and practice opportunities customized for rural health network leaders in support of their work in building meaningful and impactful collaborations. Collaboration is one of the keys to sustainability in our changing health care environment and being a capable and effective Collaboration Leader is increasingly important. Specifically, rural health provider organizations; your network members, are preparing themselves for changes in health care, such as, care transitions, managing populatin health, utlizing telemedicine, health information exchange, patient engagement, and a primary care provider focus. Networks can meet their members needs with effective collaboration. In this session there will be a focus on Leading Collaboration and Building Trust in Collaborative Partnerships. Specific How-To training will be supplemented with interactive discussion and a panel of peers describing their collaboration challenges, successes, and lessons learned. The goal of this workshop is to support rural health network leaders in building and leading effective collaborative partnerships that create value for their members and improve health and wellness in their communities. Materials Presentation (pdf) Presenters
Kap Wilkes, MBA, is a Program Manager II at the National Rural Health Resource Center since 2012 where she is responsible for strengthening network development, facilitating business plans for sustainability, and building HIT knowledge capacity for rural HIT networks. Kap is a qualified facilitation trainer and has been helping organizations with their strategic planning efforts for over 10 years. She uses the balanced scorecard methodology for planning and provides leadership support for optimizing plans with a systems approach based on the Baldrige Performance Excellence framework. Most recently she has been supporting rural health networks via remote facilitation and training. She has experience working within a large and dynamic collaborative health care network as the Members Services Manager. Kap has experience and knowledge of business development and is adjunct faculty for The College of St. Scholastica in the Management and Technology School teaching organization development. She received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Kansas and Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics/Astronomy from Agnes Scott College, Atlanta Georgia. Joe Wivoda is the Chief Information Officer at the National Rural Health Resource Center and HIT Consultant with Rural Health Innovations in Duluth, MN. He has been working in Information Technology since 1990 and with Health Information Technology since 1993. He has been IT Manager, Director of IT, and CIO at several Hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare organizations, and has also assisted Healthcare IT vendors with business planning and product improvement. Joe has provided leadership and consulting for several Health Information Exchanges (HIE) nationwide as well as HIT selection, implementation, and improvement consulting to healthcare organizations. In addition to his healthcare experience, he has worked in several other industries including manufacturing, engineering, education, and legal. Joe's expertise is in IT leadership, strategy, service delivery, and the process of innovation. His work with Regional Extension Centers includes Meaningful Use assessments, readiness assessments, workflow analysis and redesign, project management, quality reporting, and tool design. Along with National Rural Health Resource Center staff, he also provides technical assistance to 41 Rural HIT Network Development grantees nationwide Joe received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from the University of Minnesota – Duluth and has a Doctorate (ABD) in Business Administration from Northcentral University. |