eHealth Initiative Foundations Leadership in Global Health Technology Initiative Welcome, Introducti

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eHealth Initiative Foundations Leadership in
Global Health Technology InitiativeWelcome,
Introductions and Opening Remarks

• Janet Marchibroda, eHealth Initiative
• Susan Penfield, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Ticia Gerber, eHealth Initiative
• October 20, 2004

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Leadership in Global Health Technology
Initiative Purpose

• Facilitate learning, information sharing, and
  collaboration among nations regarding the basic
  requirements, key barriers, and strategies for
  implementing HIT, electronic connectivity and an
  electronic health information infrastructure to
  support better health and healthcare

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LIGHT Goals and Objectives

• Promote global dialogue and build a community of
  international learning around the use of HIT to
  support clinical care, education, research and
  public health
• Gain a greater understanding of the experiences
  of nations who are at varying levels of
  implementation

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LIGHT Goals and Objectives

• Ascertain national and international needs and
  priorities related to HIT and develop creative
  strategies to address those needsleveraging
  LIGHT partners and participants
• Explore the development of tools and resources,
  leveraging the work of the public and private
  sectors, that can be applied in developing
  nations across the world

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LIGHT Goals and Objectives

• Disseminate the results of the initiative as
  widely as possible to promote positive movement
  and change

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First LIGHT Meeting

• Geneva, Switzerland May 2004
• 16 Nations participated
• Provided overview of
• Current state
• Key challenges
• Strategies utilized
• Key imperatives for the future

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eHealth Initiative Mission and Vision

• Our Mission Drive improvement in the quality,
  safety, and efficiency of healthcare through
  information and information technology
• Our Vision Consumers, providers and those
  responsible for population health will have ready
  access to timely, relevant, reliable and secure
  health care information and services through an
  electronic interoperable health information
  infrastructure to promote better health and
  healthcare

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Our Diverse Membership

• Community-based collaboratives
• Consumer and patient groups
• Employers, healthcare purchasers, and payers
• Health care information technology suppliers
• Hospitals and other providers
• Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers
• Pharmacies, laboratories and other ancillary
  providers
• Practicing clinicians and clinician groups
• Public health agencies
• Research and academic institutions

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eHealth Initiative Focus for 2004

• Develop the field to enable more widespread and
  effective implementation of HIT and an electronic
  health information infrastructure particular
  focus on community-based health exchanges and
  clinicians
• Align incentives and promote public and private
  sector investment in improving Americas
  healthcare through IT and an electronic health
  information infrastructure
• Continue to drive adoption of standards to
  promote an interoperable, interconnected
  healthcare system

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Challenge Areas Were Tackling

• Clinical process and work-flow change to support
  adoption
• Public and private sector investment and
  alignment of incentives to support sustainability
• Organization, governance and legal Issues
• Technical aspects including architecture,
  applications, connectivity, security
• Protecting patient privacy
• Engaging patients and consumers

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Operating Model and Approach
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Our Approach
REVIEW, EVALUATE AND DEVELOP POLICIES AND
MODELS IN KEY ISSUE AREAS
VET WITH AND DISSEMINATE TO STAKEHOLDERS
PRIMARY DISSEMINATION VEHICLES
COMMUNITIES
DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
FINANCING
CLINICIANS
ONLINE RESOURCE CENTER
ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL
HOSPITALS AND OTHER PROVIDERS
VIDEO, WEB, PHONE CONFERENCES
CLINICAL PROCESS CHANGE, CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE
HEALTHCARE IT PHARMA AND DEVICE MFR
MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES NATIONAL AND REGIONAL
TECHNICAL (STDS, SECURITY, ARCHITECTURE)
PUBLIC HEALTH
TARGETED BRIEFINGS
PAYERS EMPLOYERS, PURCHASERS
ENGAGING PATIENTS
PUBLICATIONS
PATIENTS, CONSUMERS
PRIVACY POLICY
MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
POLICY-MAKERS NATIONAL AND STATE
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Connecting Communities for Better Health

• Catalyzing activities at national, regional and
  local level to create electronic interoperable
  health information infrastructure
• 7 million program in cooperation with HRSA
  leveraging these dollars to drive more funding
  to communities and to efforts that will support
  communities
• Providing seed funding to nine community-based
  multi-stakeholder collaboratives that are
  mobilizing information across organizations

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Connecting Communities for Better Health

• Mobilizing pioneers and experts to develop
  resources and tools to support health information
  exchange technical, financial, clinical,
  organizational, legal
• Disseminating resources and tools and building a
  dialogue across communities
• Through Community Learning Network and Online
  Resource Center
• Face to face meetings
• Ongoing audio, video and web conferences

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Connecting Communities for Better Health

• Creating and widely publicizing a pool of
  electronic health information exchange-ready
  communities to facilitate interest and public and
  private sector investment
• Building national awareness regarding
  feasibility, value, barriers, and strategies

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Extending Reach Internationally

• Bringing together clinicians, hospitals, labs,
  healthcare IT suppliers, payers, and public
  sector partners to accelerate HIT adoption and an
  interoperable electronic health information
  infrastructure
• Extending this work to global healthcare needs

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Global Healthcare Challenges
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Potential Contributions of HIT
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What We Can Do to Help
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Our Participants
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Our Goals for Today
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Overview of the Day

• Welcome, Introductions and Opening Remarks
• Overview of HIV/AIDS Global Healthcare Challenges
  and Initiatives Launched to Address Them
• Public and Private Sector Initiatives that
  Utilize HIT to Address Global Healthcare
  Challenges

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Overview of the Day

• Innovative Approaches to HIV/AIDS Education and
  Awareness Challenges
• Highlights of First LIGHT Report Summary of
  Geneva
• Facilitated Discussion Opportunities through
  Partnerships to Address Global Healthcare
  Challenges Through HIT

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Overview of the Day

• Summarize Next Steps for LIGHT
• Adjourn Formal Meeting
• Reception 600 p.m. Rooftop Terrace
• Dinner 745 p.m. John Hay Room

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Closing

• We are finally building momentumthe stars and
  planets are aligning
• The focus has shifted from whether we should to
  how will we do this?
• This work will create lasting and significant
  changes in the U.S. healthcare systemhow
  clinicians practicehow hospitals operate.how
  healthcare gets paid forhow patients manage
  their health and navigate our healthcare system