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Inside this issue:
New Non-Acute
CCHA Members
2
Illucient, Contracts, &
Operations Update
2
“Alliance Day 2016”
Event Recap
3
2017 Annual CCHIE
Town Hall Meeting
3
CCHIE Data Mart for
Population Health
4
Wilmington “Residents
Reception” Recap
4
Over 120 guests from CCHA member hospitals and community partners attended Alliance Day 2016 on December 2nd (full story on page 3)
News & Notes COASTAL CAROLINAS HEALTH ALLIANCE
CEO Update highl ight ing the many successes we achieved through regional collaboration. We sincerely appreciate the o n go in g s u pp o r t a nd dedication of our members, which have helped make so many initiatives possible this
year.
Coastal Connect Health I n f o r m a t i o n E x c h a n g e continues to add data contributors; we recently added access to ambulatory and acute patient information from New Hanover Regional Medical Center. We also completed results delivery with several practices across
the region.
The Mobi le Simulat ion
Thank you to e v e r y o n e w h o attended CCHA’s Alliance Day 2016 event on December 2nd! We are glad that
so many of our members were able to join us for the celebration, which was held at the Holiday Inn Resort on
Wrightsville Beach.
Our theme for the day was resilience through both change and challenges. Our wonderful keynote speakers touched on this topic. Their work and experiences in health care attest to the power
of resilience.
Alliance Day was a nice way of wrapping up the year and
Program (MSP) ended FY 2016 strong with a 10% increase in staff training utilization at our member hospitals. The MSP team continues to work on ways to diversify our training offerings. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added a new patient simulator mannequin: Adult
HAL.
Illucient Purchasing Alliance has also kept busy with reviewing and negotiating new contracts. We end the calendar year with just over 130 agreements in the
Illucient portfolio.
2016 was a fantastic year, and we look forward to another
busy year ahead!
Illucient Purchasing Alliance Update
several Illucient business partners to attend project team meetings for presentations. Ultimately, we are working hard to ensure all of our Illucient members are aware of the contract opportunities available to them. We have published a summary contract portfolio and share this resource both electronically (via email)
and in hard copy at meetings.
Going forward, we plan to
“spotlight” contracts in the
weekly operations report to
our Board of Directors as a
way of reminding them about
available opportunities. Since
many of our contracts
provide access to discounts, services,
and products that the national group
purchasing organizations do not offer, it
will be important to determine if our
members can use contracts outside of
their GPOs and corporate directives.
Information Exchange, so this is a
logical expansion of our relationship.
We are reaching out
to other non-acute
h e a l t h c a r e
providers throughout
our region that
complement the
services provided by
our acute members.
CCHA has set a
goal to bring in
twenty non-acute
members over the
next twelve months.
We’re exc ited about the new
membership opportunities made
possible through this expansion to our
bylaws, and we welcome our two first
non-acute members!
Historically, membership in
Coastal Carolinas Health
Alliance has been exclusively
hospitals and health systems.
However, this past summer our
Board of Directors approved a
slight change to our bylaws, opening up a
new membership tier for non-acute
providers.
Non-acute CCHA members will have
access to contracts in the CCHA portfolio,
thereby adding their purchasing volume to
current and future negotiations. Non-acute
members will also be able to tap into the
CCHA’s various project teams (Lab
Directors, Materials Directors, etc.) and
education through the Mobile Simulation
Program.
We are thrilled to announce that two non-
acute providers have joined CCHA
through this new membership tier:
Wilmington Health and Cape Fear Clinic.
Wilmington Health, the largest private,
fully integrated, multi -
specialty medical group
practice in Southeastern
North Carolina, has been
treating patients for nearly 40
years. Cape Fear Clinic is a
charitable clinic with on site
medical, pharmacy, mental
health, and dental services,
serving adults in New
Hanover, Brunswick, Pender,
and Columbus Counties who
are uninsured and have incomes of no
more than 200% of Federal Poverty
Guidelines or have Medicaid. Both
Wilmington Health and Cape Fear Clinic
are current participants in CCHA’s sister
organization, Coastal Connect Health
Two Non-Acute Healthcare Providers Join Alliance through New Membership Category
The Illucient Purchasing Alliance
contract portfolio continues to
grow. This quarter alone, ten
new contracts were added along
with one contract renewal. These
new contract agreements
provide access to discounted services in
areas such as diabetes
m a n a g e m e n t s u p p o r t ;
phys ic ian rec ru i tmen t ;
temporary staffing; patient
financing; medical equipment
service and recycl ing;
telesitter services; and data
analytics.
During the past few months we have also focused on increasing the utilization of existing contracts. Illucient staff have hosted a number of online webinars, which were tailored to specific departments or teams, such as Pharmacy or Supply Chain. In addition, we invited
2017 Medicare Boot Camp Event Receives Silver Sponsorship
Our 2017 Medicare Boot Camp event has received a Silver sponsorship from Nemadji
Research Corporation.
Nemadji Research Corp. provides a back-end data
analytics recovery solution that utilizes a proprietary data mining software to identify third party coverage (Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial) on aged accounts that was not p r e v i o u s l y
identified.
This agreement is available to our hospitals through the Illucient contract portfolio. Thank you, Nemadji
Research, for sponsoring our event!
opportunity for the CCHIE team to share stories from the field as well as updates about new and upcoming functionality
that will be available.
Last year’s event was very well-received and attendees said they enjoyed having the opportunity to network with other
c o n n e c t e d providers, hear those organizational u p d a t e s , a n d receive education t h r o u g h t h e
speakers.
Save-the-Date invitations will be sent in the coming weeks, so please keep an eye out for them. We hope to see
another great turnout this year!
Coastal Connect Heal th Information Exchange (CCHIE) will host its annual Town Hall Meeting on Friday, March 10th, at the Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, NC. Two great
speakers will be joining us for talks on
claims compliance and MACRA.
Dr. Gregory Palega will be speaking on “Claims Liability and Enhancing CMS Compliance,” and Mary McCaskgill will
take us through “Navigating MACRA.”
Each year, we invite physicians, providers, and other key office personnel f rom our connected community to attend this meeting. It’s an
CCHIE Integration Milestone:
Additional CCDs Available
Coastal Connect HIE participants
can query and retrieve Continuity
Care Documents (CCDs) from New
Hanover Regional Medical Center
for acute and ambulatory
patients. This added value helps to
support transition of care among
participants.
In addition, CCHIE completed results
delivery integration with: Black River
Health, Cape Fear Clinic, Brunswick
Family, Robeson Pediatrics, and Leo
Warshauer, MD.
We are excited about upcoming projects
such adding UNC Healthcare as an eHealth
Exchange partner by the end of January
2017.
pertinent message.
Of course, Alliance Day wouldn’t be
possible without the support of our
great business partner sponsors. Thirty-
two sponsors and exhibitors joined us
for the event this year, including a
record four Gold Sponsors. Attendees
had the opportunity to visit each of their
exhibit booths during the Vendor Show
portion of the agenda and learn about
opportunities available to them.
Alliance Day is first and foremost a
celebration of regional collaboration. It’s
a time to recognize the dedication and
hard work of our member hospitals,
who impact communities across our
region each day.
It was another beautiful, sunny,
and mild day on Wrightsville
Beach for Alliance Day this year!
For the fourth year in a row,
members from our eleven
member hospitals and affiliates,
as well as community
partners and organizations,
came to the Holiday Inn
Resort—Wrightsville Beach
for our annual Alliance Day
celebration.
We had over 120 guests in
attendance, representing all
of our members across the region. In the
morning they heard updates about our
organization’s successes followed by
vendor show time with our sponsors, a
networking lunch, and then two keynote
speakers.
Tiffany Christensen and Dr. Wayne Sotile
delivered two fantastic messages that
day. Tiffany is a Performance
Improvement Specialist for the North
Carolina Quality Center. She drew upon
her extensive background and
experiences in health care, including as a
patient, to discuss the power of resiliency
and the importance of fortitude in the face
o f t r e m e n d o u s
challenges. Her inspiring
message of resilience
complemented nicely
with Dr. Sotile’s address
later in the afternoon.
Dr. Sotile, a national
speaker through The
Studer Group, has over thirty years of
experience as a clinical psychologist
studying high performers: how they think,
cope, manage relationships, and stay
resilient through changing times. He
offered constructive insights and
strategies for personal and professional
resilience. For healthcare administrators
and providers, it was an especially
Alliance Day 2016 Highlighted Regional Collaboration, Shared Successes, and Resilience through Change
2017 Annual CCHIE Town Hall Meeting to Feature Timely Topics, Updates
Thank You to our
Nursing Leadership
Conference 2016 Sponsors:
CCHIE’s Data Mart gears up for Population Health
Interoperability combined with population health delivers a one-two punch in the arena of advancing patient care. While health care organizations struggle with managing data to predict health trends and meet
MACRA and QPRS report ing requirements, a community-based health record spans gaps across providers and offers insights on data that otherwise would be unavailable to
an individual agency or ACO.
Since 2011, Coastal Connect Health Information Exchange (CCHIE) has been collecting patient information from area providers. Today this information continues to improve patient care, but now it can be used to view the community as a whole and isolate
trends.
CCHIE has spent the last few months putting in place and testing the architecture for a data mart. To populate the data mart, electronic
information from the HIE repositories is compounded and normalized into a HL7 v2 format. This process doesn’t change the data in any way, but it makes it more consistent for querying. From here, a secure connection is all that is needed to begin matching and sorting records in order to understand high-risk patient populations, improve value-based care and drive better
decisions.
Soon participants will have the option of being able to use the third party analytic tool of their choice to connect to their own data within the repository and pull out information around readmiss ions , ED u t i l i za t ion , Immunization and Cancer screenings or any multitude of other use cases. As usage of the data mart expands, CCHIE will continue to aid participants in developing complex queries and by sharing common queries which can be used to unlock
the potential of your data.
Thank You to our
Alliance Day 2016 Sponsors:
Well-Attended Residents Reception Event Highlighted Regional Career Opportunities
Twenty -e igh t Res idents attended Residents Reception in early October. These Residents are currently working and training at New Hanover Regional Medical
Center, and this annual event helps them learn about career opportunities available throughout the region at
CCHA member hospitals.
Several Residency programs were represented this year by attendees, including Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, OBGYN, Ophthalmology, Surgery and advanced-practice
nursing.
A big thank you to the local businesses that contributed to the CCHA Grand Prize, valued at $1,500 in donated
items.
Also, we would like to recognize and thank our event sponsor, Brent Eckhardt of SunTrust Mortgage. Brent is a long-time supporter of this event, and we truly appreciate his ongoing
partnership with this organization.
Overall, we had another successful Residents Reception, and we look forward to offering this great event
again next year!
GOLD SPONSORS
SILVER SPONSORS