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Changing Health Outcomes

Apply the growing experience and expertise of providers, communities and funders to purchase and deliver desired health and social outcomes at a fair cost.

"We need to define the outcomes and then focus on one individual at a time, addressing their health and human services needs while holding the system accountable for producing positive outcomes."
Mark Redding, M.D.

“We can produce the outcomes, we know we can do it . . .but no one is set up to purchase the product. The public policy and program apparatus is not ready or able to take advantage of this emerging innovation.”
Patrick S. Hughes, Ed.D, President, Communities Joined in Action

"The current system is broken Next year, the health and human services budget I send to the legislature is going to increase by 20%. The Health sector alone will rise 27%. At the rate we are going, in 12 years health will consume 85% or our total budget. It is simply drowning the budget."
Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota, to David Broder, Washington Post, 12/10/04

Save the Date:

If you are a provider of care:

• Be part of a breakthrough in progress, improving outcomes in such high impact areas as low birth weight, teen pregnancy, immunization, chronic disease, and access for the uninsured.

If you are a health system administrator:

• Learn how to apply innovations that are reallocating resources, changing practice, saving money, and better serving patients.

If you are a funder:

• Share and refine initiatives that are restructuring payer systems to purchase results and improvement, rather than activity and waste.

If you are a community champion of local system reform:

• Leave ready to apply outcome-based care management systems as a tool for integrating care, producing outcomes and making full access possible.

At this Institute you will encounter:

• The latest evidence-based methods that can be used to produce health outcomes for well defined population groups·
• Leading efforts by the States that are out in front in the move to outcome-based care
• How outcome-based care management systems are put in place by a variety of health care organizations such as clinics, hospitals, and health systems
• How purchasers move from fee-for-service to outcome-based contracting · How communities organize to make outcome-based care management the standard
• How to work with state and local elected officials to move them to an outcome-based approach

For more information, contact Lindy Vincent, Communities Joined in Action ~ 1-888-202-3600

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