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Connect SI: Enabling a 20 County Multi-Provider Integrated Health Strategy. Panel Members. Cary Minnis – Development and Research Coordinator, MAN-TRA-CON Corp. Todd Hart – Director, Illinois Health Network, Illinois Hospital Assoc.
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Connect SI: Enabling a 20 County Multi-Provider Integrated Health Strategy
Panel Members • Cary Minnis – Development and Research Coordinator, MAN-TRA-CON Corp. • Todd Hart – Director, Illinois Health Network, Illinois Hospital Assoc. • Debra Seale – Executive Director, Telehealth Networks and Programs; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communications and Information Sciences, SIU School of Medicine • Frank Knott – President, ViTAL Economy, Inc.
HEALTHCARE Healthcare in Southern Illinois is a nexus industry – one central to regional growth.
Healthcare Broadband Connectivity Workforce Development ConnectSI Education & Training Entrepreneurship & Innovation • Economic Prosperity • Social Prosperity • Environmental Prosperity Connecting and Building Strengths for:
Healthcare COI • Why is Connect SI vital to Healthcare? • Facilitates collaborative discussion of health care needs of the region • Furthers the accomplishment of collective goals by enabling private sector success • Leverages the collective assets of education, health care, and social services to meet community needs • Increases the implementation of best-practice models
Healthcare COI: S.W.O.T. • Opportunities: • - Improved Health Status for the Region • - Improved healthcare access through connectivity • - Increase healthcare training capacity to address skills shortages collaboratively • - Expanded broadband access to providers • - Creation of a true Regional Health Information Organization • - Greater provider profitability through improved payment mix • Challenges: • Shortages in Critical Skills • Capture of Outmigration • Recruitment and retention of physician specialists • Involvement of physicians in COI • Lack of broadband infrastructure capacity to support e-health applications • Heavy Medicaid and self-pay patient population
Healthcare Short-Term Wins • S/T Wins & Actions Underway: • Establishment of collaborative working relationship among health care providers • $250,000 Federal appropriation for Franklin Hospital to support digital imaging initiative • $250,000 IDOT Regional Healthcare Transportation Study • Healthcare Economic Impact & Outmigration Model • Joint proposal to USDOL from Man-Tra-Con supported by all COI co-chairs
Healthcare COI Focus and Goals • Profitability • Recapture $22M in healthcare procedures being done outside the region = 238 direct jobs • Increase commercial healthcare customers by 5% = $8M = 85 new healthcare jobs • Critical Skills Shortage • Direct jobs = 4,676 = $214M • Indirect jobs = 2,408 = $75M • Improved Health Outcomes • Reduce cardiovascular disease mortality from 215 to >166 deaths per 100,000 by 2012 • Improved Connectivity - five priority e-health applications • Electronic Master Patient Index • Linking Hospitals and Physicians with Electronic Health Records • Mental Health Primary Consulting • Workforce Education and Training • Tracking System for Drug Seekers
Proposed Goals: Relationship to Connect SI How theHealthCOISupports Connect SI 27,298 New Hi-Wage Jobs How Connect SI Supports Health Interests 41,461 Existing Jobs >$5,000/Yr Win Healthcare Win People Win Community $642 Million New KBE Activity 1,600+ Firms 7,571 New Hi-Wage Jobs = +4500 Families with Healthcare Coverage >$2 Billion New Annual Wages +4500 Families with Healthcare Coverage >$250 million New Annual Wages Lift 10,000Citizens Outof Poverty Lift 10,000 Citizens Out Of Poverty $20 Million Information Technology Investment Jobs, Wages,Insurance, NewEnterprises $200 Million Information Technology Investment Connect SI Goals
Who Is Connect SI? Leadership
Healthcare Action Team Goals • Healthcare Profitability • Increase provider profitability • Reduce overall out-migration of healthcare revenues • Improve recruitment/retention of physicians • Expand service capacity • Healthcare Outcomes • Reduction in the region’s leading causes of Mortality and Morbidity • Cardiovascular Disease • Cancer
Healthcare Action Team Goals • Critical Skills Shortage • Reduction for the identified healthcare occupational skill shortages (e.g., Nursing) • Connectivity • Improve remote access to health care information by health providers and consumers • Increase the amount of secure file and application sharing • Prioritize health resource gaps for short-term and long-term action • Identify Telehealth/Telemedicine and Health Information Technology applications to address priority areas synergistically • Increase connectivity to health care providers to effectively and affordably improve health outcomes in priority areas — creation of Electronic Master Person Index (eMPI)