HealthBridge is one of the nation’s largest and most successful health information exchange organizations. Quality Improvement and Medical Home Models: Lessons Learned on the Transformation Journey Pattie Bondurant Beacon Program Director HealthBridge

What Does the OLD View of Quality Improvement Look Like without HIT or an HIE? Quality Improvement and breakthrough performance in any area of an organization is a significant accomplishment that has had little to do with culture change and automation to help sustain change Historically- a manual process on the already busy and over- extended staff Difficult to sustain and often a more perplexing challenge remains: how to spread the success to other facilities, practices or departments. Changes are small, difficult to continue to improve without data and a method to manage the data to drive change

A 2011 View of HIT - HIE - QI HIT and HIEs focus on the supporting role in ongoing improvements to the quality of patient care as a fundamental property of the health care system. Harness HIT and HIEs to support and inform health care improvement promoting safety reducing errors providing clinical decision support tools for clinicians improving continuity of care contribute to the quality of patient care by electronically tracking process and outcome measures

Aim of Health Care Transformation in 2011 Wed HIT – HIE – QI Fuel Health Care Transformation 4 BASIC QUALITY IMPROVEMENT LOW HIGH Engagement AGGRESSIVE QIPATIENT CENTERED MEDICAL HOME AIM: Move physician groups toward full practice transformation & meaningful use AIM: Move physician groups toward full practice transformation & meaningful use Provider Universe Tomorrow Provider Universe Today BASIC TECHNOLOGY MEANINGFUL USE LEVEL 1LEVEL 2LEVEL 3

Greater Cincinnati Beacon Collaboration An Overview Support is provided under cooperative agreement 90BC from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, US Dept. of Health and Human Services.

The Concept of the Beacon Community-a transformed Health Care Community

Goal: Provide funding to communities to strengthen health IT infrastructure and exchange capabilities and achieve measurable improvements in health care quality, safety, efficiency, and population health. Funding: $13.75 million award to Cincinnati Awarded: Sept 1, 2010 Length of Initiative: 30 month initiative. ONC Beacon Community Program

8 Beacon Community Programs

9 Two Demonstration Projects Pediatric Asthma – led by Cincinnati Children’s Adult Chronic Disease – led by Health Improvement Collaborative & Greater Cincinnati Health Council Six (6) Health IT & Exchange Enhancements Led and implemented by HealthBridge ER-Inpatient Alerts, Disease Registry, Summary Record Exchange, REL Data, Core Infrastructure Rigorous Evaluation and Performance Measurement Performed by UC, CCHMC Evidence of improvement to drive payment reform Greater Cincinnati Beacon Collaboration

The GCBC Team

Beacon and Beyond- Primary Care Transformation What Needs to Happen?  Break down information silos to improve flow of data to providers across to inform decision making  Enhance Access to care and continuity of care  Track and Coordinate Care  Measure and Improve Performance

Primary Care Transformation Patient-Centered Medical Home The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) introduced the medical home concept in 1967, referring to a central location for archiving a child’s medical record. In its 2002 policy statement, AAP expanded the concept to refer to primary care that emphasizes timely access to medical services, enhanced communication between patients and their health care team, coordination and continuity of care, and an intensive focus on quality and safety.

Primary Care Transformation Patient-Centered Medical Home In 2007, a set of guiding principles describing the characteristics of a practice-based care model was issued by four physician membership organizations representing over 300,000 physicians. The authoring organizations are: American Academy of Family Physicians American College of Physicians American Osteopathic Association American Academy of Pediatrics The clinicians represented by these organizations provide the majority of primary care in the United States.

The PCMH 2011 program’s six standards align with the core components of transforming primary care. PCMH 1: Enhance Access and Continuity PCMH 2: Identify and Manage Patient Populations PCMH 3: Plan and Manage Care PCMH 4: Provide Self-Care and Community Support PCMH 5: Track and Coordinate Care PCMH 6: Measure and Improve Performance

Practice Transformation-what does that look like from the practice’s perspective? “ Our work with asthma is just the beginning of managing all the practice patients with complex medical problems. As each patient sees a specialist or has contact with another health care provider, regardless of the location or institution, that information could then be sent to the medical home and …captured for surveillance, management, pay for performance, and quality improvement efforts. This can be done with minimal staff requirements and a high level of sustainability in an electronic environment. Scott Callahan, M.D., Pediatrician Children’s Health Care, Batesville IN Beacon Community Physician

Practice Transformation-what does that look like from the practice’s perspective? “PCMH-It has forced me to stop and look at everything we do and make me be more mindful of every process. The PCMH model forces you to look at everything….as a physician my sense is that having gone through this process it has taken some of the fear of me being accountable for everything and put processes in place that give me assurance of a system to support the day to day pieces of running a daily practice. I have some assurance that things are not slipping through the cracks. The PCMC process has created a few efficiencies in our daily flow and we are still working on our journey of culture change. “ “Bridges to Excellence D5 measurements at baseline were at 9% compliance and we are now at 54% compliance with our current D5 measures. “

Thank you! Pattie Bondurant MN, RN Beacon Program Director HealthBridge