FinnWell pilot projects: San Francisco Bay area as a focus

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• FinnWell pilot projectsSan Francisco Bay area
  as a focus
• Riku Mäkelä, Tekes San Jose
• 18.3.2005
• riku.makela_at_tekes.fi
• www.tekes.fi/ohjelmat/finnwell

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Main goals for FinnWell in San Francisco Bay
UC Berkeley
UCSF HealthTech Center
Kaiser Research
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Health Technology Center

• Health Technology Center, HealthTech, was founded
  in 2000 by senior healthcare executives
• A non-profit research organization
• Provider of in-depth, objective information about
  emerging healthcare technologies
• HealthTech forecasts impact of technologies on
  clinical outcomes, financial performance,
  facility design, and market strategies
• Collaborative partnership of over 45
  organizations, including health delivery systems
  and health plans
• Mission
• To create a trusted source of objective, expert
  and useful information about the future of
  healthcare technologies
• FinnWell goals
• Finns will use expert information provided by
  HealthTech
• Finns will attend HealthTech events
• Finns will have a physical presence in Health
  Tech office and chosen projects

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Example HealthTechs reports

• The Future of Wireless in Healthcare, Technology
  Forecast Report tm
• Sept 2004, 50 pages
• Workforce/Beyond 5 years It is unlikely that
  wireless devices will replace desktops for large
  volume activities and for display of diagnostic
  quality images. The blending of the two
  modalities will provide the most cost- effective
  workforce support over the next 3 years.

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Kaiser Permanente

• The largest HMO in U.S.
• integrated health care organization
• founded in 1945
• nonprofit health plan
• headquarters in Oakland, California
• Membership
• members in nine states and Washington, D.C.
• 8.2 million voluntarily enrolled members as of
  December 2003
• California 6,218,714 / Colorado 409,141 /
  Hawaii 235,192
• most members join through their employers, who
  pay part or all of the monthly dues

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Kaiser Permanente / Kaiser Research

• FinnWells friends at UC Berkeley and Kaiser
  Research are starting a research project about
  EHR
• Study of the effects of Kaiser wide deployment of
  Epicares EHR system EPIC
• The implementation project 8 million patients
  into the system, total costs USD 2 billion
• Kaiser organizes the first ever three day
  training seminar for international participants
  in April about what they are and what they do
• FinnWell goals
• Learn about an implementation of interoperable
  EHR? benchmarking and learning from each others
• ? Finnish project or organization
  collaborates with the study about Kaisers EHR
  implementation
• Link several Finnish organizations to Kaiser
• ? Finnish participants in Kaisers training
  April 11th-13th

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Next steps

• Health Technology Center
• Get acceess to HealthTech services Sign in to
  Finns for HealthTech list for access rights to
  HealthTechs web site, events and other services
  ? Send email to FinnWell team
• Send a 1-12 months visitor to HealthTech Talk
  with FinnWell team about the interest ? Include
  this to projects plans of an existing or future
  project
• Kaiser Permanente
• Get an overview of Kaiser Permanente Participate
  in Kaisers three day seminar about what they are
  and what they do ? Sign in and go to Oakland for
  April 11th-13th
• Collaborate with the study about EHR
  implementations Contact FinnWell team

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More information

• FinnWell team, about
• SF Bay area contacts and links
  Riku.makela_at_tekes.fi
• FinnWell project ideas Kalevi.virta_at_navicre.com
• funding and projects Teija.palko_at_tekes.fi,
  pentti.nummi_at_tekes.fi
• Health Technology Center www.healthtech.org
• Kaisers training session https//programs.regweb
  .com/kaiser/KPInternational
• If you dont know how to proceed, contact Kalevi
  Virta or Riku Mäkelä