Data Sharing Requirements Initiative:
Collaborative Approaches to Advance Data Sharing
Released May 23, 2017
Description
The goal of this report is to assist individual organizations in making strategic decisions about data sharing. However, doing so requires going beyond their own walls and assessing community and regional assets and potentially national vendor options. Local efforts will be greatly enhanced by alignment across the nation on some foundational aspects of data sharing. These three levels—the individual organization, key community and regional partnerships, and system-wide infrastructure support are all necessary. Moreover, some of the needed functionality could be acquired commercially rather than built, by either those implementing value-based payment or third party entities supporting them.
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Publication Info
Publication date: May 23, 2017
58 pages
Suggested Citation: Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network. Data Sharing Requirements Initiative: Collaborative Approaches to Advance Data Sharing. May 23, 2017.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Foundation Building Blocks
Section 2: Checklist of Business Requirements
Section 3: Strategies for Addressing Governance, Data Sharing Barriers, and Sustainability
Section 4: Illustrative Scenarios — Build, Buy, or Collaborate
Section 5: Building a “Community Infrastructure” at the Local, Regional, State, and National Levels
Appendix B: DSRI Leadership Team Roster
Appendix D: Principles for Patient- and Family- Centered Payment
White Papers
Accelerating and Aligning Population Based Payment Models: Data Sharing
Blogs
The Culture Of Data Sharing Has To Change by Glenn Steele
Why Regional Data and Local Relationships Will Reform Health Care Payment Nationally by Elizabeth Mitchell
Webinars
Opportunities & Challenges in Data Sharing for Population-Based Payment Models
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Emily DuHamel Brower, M.B.A., is senior vice president of clinical integration and physician services for Trinity Health. Emphasizing clinical integration and payment model transformation, Ms. Brower provides strategic direction related to the evolving accountable healthcare environment with strong results. Her team is currently accountable for $10.4B of medical expense for 1.6M lives in Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Medicare Advantage, and Medicaid and Commercial Alternative Payment Models.
Mr. James Sinkoff is the Deputy Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer for Sun River Health (formerly known as Hudson River HealthCare), and the Chief Executive Officer of Solutions 4 Community Health (S4CH); an MSO serving FQHCs and private physician practices.
Victor is the Chief Medical Officer for TennCare, Tennessee’s Medicaid Agency. At TennCare, Victor leads the medical office to ensure quality and effective delivery of medical, pharmacy, and dental services to its members. He also leads TennCare’s opioid epidemic strategy, social determinants of health, and practice transformation initiatives across the agency. Prior to joining TennCare, Victor worked at Evolent Health supporting value-based population health care delivery. In 2013, Victor served as a White House Fellow to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Victor completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Emory University still practices clinically as an internist in the Veteran’s Affairs Health System.
Dr. Brandon G. Wilson, DrPH, MHA (he, him, his) joined Community Catalyst as the Director of the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation, where he leads the Center in bringing the community’s experience to the forefront of health systems transformation and health reform efforts, in order to deliver better care, better value and better health for every community, particularly vulnerable and historically underserved populations. The Center works directly with community advocates around the country to increase the skills and power they have to establish an effective voice at all levels of the health care system. The Center collaborates with innovative health plans, hospitals and providers to incorporate communities and their lived experience into the design of systems of care. The Center also works with state and federal policymakers to spur change that makes the health system more responsive to communities. And it provides consulting services to health plans, provider groups and other health care organizations to help them create meaningful structures for engagement with their communities.
Tamara Ward is the SVP of Insurance Business Operations at Oscar Health, where she leads the National Network Contracting Strategy and Market Expansion & Readiness. Prior to Oscar she served as VP of Managed Care & Network Operations at TriHealth in Southwest Ohio. With over 15 years of progressive health care experience, she has been instrumental driving collaborative payer provider strategies, improving insurance operations, and building high value networks through her various roles with UHC and other large provider health systems. Her breadth and depth of experience and interest-based approach has allowed her to have success solving some of the most complex issues our industry faces today. Tam is passionate about driving change for marginalized communities, developing Oscar’s Culturally Competent Care Program- reducing healthcare disparities and improving access for the underserved population. Tamara holds a B.A. from the University of Cincinnati’s and M.B.A from Miami University.
Dr. Peter Walsh joined the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing as the Chief Medical Officer on December 1, 2020. Prior to joining HCPF, Dr. Walsh served as a Hospital Field Representative/Surveyor at the Joint Commission, headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois.
