New Mexico Health Information Collaborative

描述(由申请人提供)：新墨西哥州健康信息合作(NMHIC)的总体目标是开发一个社区范围(并最终在全州范围内)的健康信息交流，以改善护理协调和慢性病结果，并降低不必要的护理成本。认识到仅采用信息技术不会在医疗保健方面发生巨大变化，另一个目标是在利益相关者(员工、雇主、提供者和医疗系统和计划)中创建一种个人对健康负责的文化，特别是在消费者中。这将通过四个具体目标实现：(1)发展组织基础设施；(2)开发社区范围的疾病管理原型(糖尿病、儿童哮喘、抑郁症和下腰痛)，利用电子健康战略改善护理并降低成本；(3)建立农村试点，作为其他农村地区的榜样；以及(4)评估健康信息协作的发展、实施和结果。 Collaborative最初是由几位担心医疗保健成本持续上升的企业领导人推动的，它将企业、医疗系统和计划、慈善组织、政府、学校和新墨西哥大学聚集在一起，开发一个医疗信息交换，使提供者、员工/患者和雇主能够共同努力，改善每个被诊断为慢性病的个人的健康状况。通过互联网访问已转换为可用的健康信息的索赔数据，提供者和患者/员工将能够访问全面和相关的临床数据，无论患者在哪里接受治疗。社区疾病管理指南将促进提供者之间护理的一致性，并帮助患者制定自我管理目标。雇主将收到关于其员工健康状况的汇总报告，使他们能够制定和衡量工作场所健康计划的有效性。 这项提议的两个优势将有助于其成功：基础广泛的社区合作和领导力，以及概念的独特性和创新性。第三个优势是，该项目将由Lovelace Clinic Foundation领导，这是一个独立的、非营利性的健康服务研究机构，在项目管理、疾病管理、最佳实践的传播、IT规划和开发以及结果衡量方面拥有丰富的经验。在这个项目的启动阶段之后，NMHIC将被转移到一个由社区利益相关者管理的独立的非营利性组织。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The overall goal of the New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC) is to develop a community-wide (and eventually statewide) health information exchange that will improve care coordination and chronic disease outcomes, and reduce unnecessary costs of care. Recognizing that dramatic changes in health care will not occur with adopting IT alone, an additional goal is to create a culture of personal responsibility for health among the stakeholders (employees, employers, providers, and health systems and plans) and in particular among consumers. This will be accomplished through four specific aims: (1) to develop the organizational infrastructure; (2) to develop community-wide disease-management prototypes (diabetes, pediatric asthma, depression, and low back pain) that utilize eHealth strategies to improve care and reduce costs; (3) to establish a rural pilot which will serve as a model for other rural areas; and (4) to evaluate the development, implementation, and outcomes of the health information collaborative. The Collaborative, initially driven by several business leaders with concerns over unrelenting escalation in health care costs, has brought together businesses, health systems, and plans, philanthropic organizations, government, schools, and the University of New Mexico to develop a health information exchange that enables providers, employees/patients, and employers to work in concert to improve the health of each individual diagnosed with a chronic disease. Through Internet access to claims data that has been transformed into usable health information, providers and patients/employees will be able to have access to comprehensive and relevant clinical data no matter where the patient received care. Community disease-management guidelines will facilitate consistency of care among providers and assist patients in developing self-management goals. Employers will receive aggregate reports on the health of their workforce, enabling them to develop and measure the effectiveness of worksite wellness programs. Two strengths of this proposal will contribute to its success: broad-based community collaboration and leadership, and uniqueness and innovation of the concept. A third strength is that the project will be led by Lovelace Clinic Foundation, an independent, not-for-profit health services research organization, which has extensive experience in project management, disease management, dissemination of best practices, IT planning and development, and outcome measurement. Following the startup phase of this project, NMHIC will be transferred to an independent, not-for-profit organization governed by community stakeholders.