California HealthCare Foundation Funding Overview

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California HealthCare FoundationFunding Overview

• Veenu Aulakh, MPH
• Senior Program Officer, Chronic Disease Care
• California HealthCare Foundation
• June 9, 2005

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Outline

• Overview of CHCF
• Areas of Focus
• Future direction of CHCF
• Tips for Success

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California HealthCare Foundation

• Mission Expand access to affordable, quality
  health care for underserved individuals and
  communities and to promote fundamental
  improvements in the health status of the people
  of California
• Primary Audience policymakers, provider
  organizations, health plans, advocates,
  researchers
• History Founded in 1996, as result of
  conversion of Blue Cross of California to
  for-profit status
• Size Total assets of 600 million, annual
  payout approximately 45 million
• www.chcf.org

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CHCF Program Areas

• Chronic Disease Care
• Hospitals Nursing Homes
• Health Insurance
• Public Financing Policy
• Areas of Strategic Emphasis (ASE)
• Health Information Technology
• Publishing Communications
• Consumer Information

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Summary Statement
The Health Information Technology ASE works in
strategic partnership with the Program Areas to
promote the adoption and effective use of IT to
improve clinical and business practices.
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Areas of Focus

• Promote adoption and effective use of information
  technologies that demonstrate improvements in
  health care access and delivery.

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Areas of Focus

• Support research and publications on new
  technology developments and trends in health care
  to improve care delivery and business practices.

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Health IT philosophies

• Stimulate adoption and use of HIT to improve
  quality of care and decrease costs
• Educate and inform stakeholders in making
  decisions related to HIT
• Partner with others when possible
• Identify opportunities for applications to
  increase efficiency quality
• Bring together organizations to agree upon
  projects for larger benefits

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Chronic Disease Care HIT projects

• Statewide efforts to develop data standards,
  business rules and tools for the delivery and use
  of clinical information (CALINX)
• Develop technical specifications
• Gained health plan provider group support
• Developed verification tools
• In conjunction with national health care IT
  leadership, developing national data standard for
  transmission of lab test results to ambulatory
  EHR (ELINCS)

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Support of HIT in community clinics

• California Community Clinics EHR Assessment and
  Readiness (CCEAR)
• Define functional requirements for community
  clinics
• California conference with vendor fair (assess
  readiness of vendors)
• Highlight effective implementation models
• Educate about realities of implementation
• Provide technical assistance and support for HIT
  within other grants to clinics

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Future projects at CHCF

• Open-source applications
• Continue to support adoption of HIT solutions in
  community clinics and provider organizations
• Spectrum of HIT options EHRs to Registries
• Standards development and implementation
• Statewide RHIO efforts regional opportunities
• National Privacy survey re consumer attitudes
• Web-scheduling applications for hospitals

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Funding Considerations for CHCF

• Fit with CHCF priority areas
• Likelihood of impact
• How will this analysis/information create change?
  
• How will it influence thinking or behavior?
• Who will use it to make what decisions toward
  what end?
• Could this approach be replicated by others?
• Also feasibility, experience/qualifications,
  timeline, budget
• Few unsolicited proposals funded