Reducing Health Disparities: A Health IT Solution

减少健康差异：健康 IT 解决方案

• 批准号: 8549519
• 负责人: Robert Albert Peterson
• 金额: $ 39.94万
• 依托单位: MY COVERAGE PLAN, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-15 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8549519
• 关键词: Address; Age; Algorithms; American; Caring; Chronic Care; Client; Clinic; Commit; Communities; Competence; Complex; Computer software; Continuity of Patient Care; Costs and Benefits; Counseling; County; Decision Modeling; Electronics; Eligibility Determination; Enrollment; Ensure; Funding; Future; Health; Health Benefit; Health Care Reform; Health Personnel; Healthcare; Healthcare Systems; Hospitals; Insurance Carriers; Insurance Coverage; Interview; Language; Lawyers; Legal patent; Linguistics; Logic; Low income; Marketing; Measures; Medical; Mental Health; Minority; Monitor; Outcome; Parents; Patients; Phase; Population; Provider; Research; Risk; Role; Rural; Rural Health; Rural Hospitals; Sales; Secure; Services; Social Work; Solutions; Source; Staging; Substance abuse problem; Surveys; Technology; Testing; Training; Uncompensated Care; United States National Institutes of Health; Urban Hospitals; Wisconsin; base; clinical practice; commercialization; cost; design; disability; experience; health care cost/financing; health disparity; health literacy; improved; informant; patient population; product development; programs; prototype; public health relevance; research and development; satisfaction; screening; statistics; success; tool; usability

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT My Coverage Plan Inc. (MCP) proposes to use our newly patented technology to create a commercially viable and nationally replicable suite of software and services for health care providers and other social service agencies that reduces avoidable health disparities and increases provider reimbursements. The MCP health IT solution will help providers proactively identify coverage options for patients with health disparities and help them maintain coverage by generating an electronic health care coverage record. Many Americans lack adequate health care coverage, a statistic especially true of disparity populations. The lack of insurance coverage harms both patients and providers. Patients risk poor medical outcomes and high debt burdens. And providers who serve these patients seldom receive full reimbursement for the medical care provided. Health care systems typically pass these losses to paying consumers and insurers. MCP proposes to address health disparities by offering a replicable software and service package that allows providers to proactively, accurately, and efficiently identify and secure coverage for disparity patients. The complexity inherent with the implementation of health care reform only heightens the need for improved provider services for patients with disparities. During Phase I, MCP established proof of concept and built a prototype of the benefits eligibility screening software. Building on the success of Phase I research and development, MCP proposes the following three aims for Phase II: 1) Expand MCP's screening capacity to fully locate, rank and record optimal public and or private coverage options for disparity patients across the age and disability spectrum; 2) Test and refine the screening tool for cultural and linguistic competence, maximum accuracy, usability and national replication; 3) Demonstrate the positive impact for disparity patients and measure the cost benefits for providers of MCP's offering in multiple settings. MCP is well prepared to carry out this project. MCP's President, Robert "Bobby" Peterson is an attorney and health care financing expert with over 25 years of experience in understanding and navigating complex programs for low-income disparity populations. MCP's parent company, founded by Mr. Peterson, ABC for Health, Inc., has provided health benefits counseling to low-income and minority patients for more than 18 years. Partner, ABC for Health will provide health benefits expertise to inform product development and testing. Other MCP committed partners include urban and rural hospitals and providers that serve disparity populations in Wisconsin.

项目总结/摘要 My Coverage Plan Inc. (MCP)建议使用我们新的专利技术来创建一个 一套商业上可行的、可在全国推广的医疗保健软件和服务 提供者和其他社会服务机构，减少可避免的健康差距， 增加供应商报销。MCP健康IT解决方案将帮助供应商主动 为存在健康差异的患者确定覆盖选项，并帮助他们维持覆盖 通过生成电子医疗保险记录。许多美国人缺乏足够的健康 保健覆盖率，这是一个统计数据，特别适用于不平等人口。缺乏保险覆盖面 对患者和提供者都有伤害。患者面临医疗结果不佳和债务负担沉重的风险。 为这些患者提供服务的提供者很少获得全额医疗补偿 提供了医疗保健系统通常将这些损失转嫁给付费的消费者和保险公司。 MCP建议通过提供可复制的软件和服务包来解决健康差距问题 使供应商能够主动、准确、高效地识别和保护 差异患者单纯实施医疗改革的复杂性 提高了为有差异的患者提供更好服务的需求。在第一阶段， MCP建立了概念验证，并建立了福利资格筛选的原型 软件在第一阶段研发成功的基础上，MCP提出了 第二阶段有三个目标：1）扩大MCP的筛选能力， 记录不同年龄段差异患者的最佳公共和/或私人保险选项， 2）测试和完善文化和语言能力的筛选工具， 最大限度地提高准确性、可用性和国家复制性; 3）展示对 差异患者，并衡量MCP提供者的成本效益， 设置. MCP为实施该项目做好了充分准备。MCP总裁罗伯特·鲍比（Robert“Bobby”） 彼得森是一名律师和医疗保健融资专家，拥有超过25年的经验， 理解和导航低收入差距人群的复杂计划。MCP的 母公司，由彼得森先生创立，ABC健康公司，提供了健康益处， 为低收入和少数民族患者提供咨询服务超过18年。ABC for Health合作伙伴 将提供健康福利专业知识，为产品开发和测试提供信息。其他MCP 承诺的合作伙伴包括城市和农村的医院和服务提供者， 威斯康星州的人口。