Point of Care Innovation: PHQ9Through Breakthrough Collaboratives for

Over 10 million Poor and Underserved in the USA

Mei Lin Fung / Chairman - Institute for Service Organization Excellence /

Board Member - National University of Singapore America Foundation

Palo Alto, California / USA

mlf@alum.mit.edu

PHQ9: A Depression Diagnostic

• Self Administered

• Tracks severity and symptom improvement

• Well validated and documented in variety of populations

• PHQ-9 Depression Screener http://www.phqscreeners.com/

– in languages, including Arabic, Assamese, Chinese (Cantonese,

Mandarin), Czech, Dutch, Danish, English, Finnish, French,

French Canadian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hebrew,

Hungarian, Italian, Malay, Malayalam, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Telugu.

• Short Videos

– Initial Visit - http://uwaims.org/files/videos/initialvisit.html

– Treatment Monitoring -

http://uwaims.org/files/videos/treatmentmonitoring.html

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Integrating person centered primary care

for person centered Innovation

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Came from an ecosystem of

Breakthrough Collaboratives

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8000 Nationwide

CommunityHealth Centers

Linked in a Research Network

WithNational Data

Repositories

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Social Infrastructure for Innovation

Data Analytics withBayesian Statistics, rigorous Math

and Composite Indexes6

Person-Centered Innovation

for Health & Thriving

Personal/Family

Clinical Care

(primary, secondary, tertiary)

Public HealthServices at the

Community Level(local, regional, state, national)

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References Communities of

Practice

• www.healthcarecommunities.org

• www.collaborateforhealthyweight.org

• www.hrsa.gov/quality/toolbox/ • www.hrsa.gov/publichealth/clinical/patientsafe

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Reference: Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved Volume 23, Number 3, August 2012, Supplement

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_health_care_for_the_poor_and_underserved/toc/hpu.23.3A.html

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Acknowledgements

• Dr. Ahmed Calvo, Senior Medical Officer, Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA), colleague & friend

• Dr. Brian Masterson for insight, inspiration and innovation leadership in shifting my mindset from healthcare to health

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