Faculty: Harold D. Miller, Strategic Initiatives Consultant, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), and President/CEO, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform; Jay Want, Payment and Delivery System Reform Advisor, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, and President, Want Healthcare LLC

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Overview: 
One of the biggest barriers faced by physicians, hospitals, health plans, and purchasers as they pursue payment and delivery reform efforts is accessing the right types of data and data analyses. This webinar provides lessons on how to access different data, and how to use data effectively to support your payment reform efforts. Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives, Health Information Exchanges, states, and the federal government can play important roles in facilitating the ability of various stakeholders to obtain and use data effectively for payment and delivery reform, but it is important to obtain the right kinds of data and make them available in the right ways. Harold Miller describes the key types of information needed during the planning stage of payment reform initiatives, the design/pricing stage, and the implementation stage. He also provides specific examples of how data can be used to support payment and delivery reform efforts.

Jay Want further discusses the importance of trust between the providers and users of data. Dr. Want describes how trusted relationships can help ensure that information is used effectively for improvement, and can overcome barriers to transformation. He also details concrete examples of how to build trust among stakeholders who are not used to collaborating. 

Faculty: Harold D. Miller, Strategic Initiatives Consultant, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), and President/CEO, Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform; Jay Want, Payment and Delivery System Reform Advisor, Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, and President, Want Healthcare LLC 

Course Level: 101 (Introductory)

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Faculty Bios:

Harold D. Miller is the President of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.  He has been working at the local, state, and national levels on initiatives to improve the quality of healthcare services and to change the fundamental structure of healthcare payment systems in order to support improved value. Mr. Miller also serves as adjunct professor of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mr. Miller is a nationally-recognized expert on healthcare payment and delivery reform, and has given invited testimony to Congress on how to reform healthcare payment. He has authored a number of papers and reports on health care payment and delivery reform, including “From Volume to Value: Better Ways to Pay for Healthcare,” which appeared in the September 2009 issue of Health Affairs, the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform’s reports “How to Create Accountable Care Organizations,” “Transitions to Accountable Care,” and “Ten Barriers to Healthcare Payment Reform and How to Overcome Them,” the Massachusetts Hospital Association’s report “Creating Accountable Care Organizations in Massachusetts,” and the American Medical Association’s report “Pathways for Physician Success Under Healthcare Payment and Delivery Reforms.”

Mr. Miller also served for over four years as the president and chief executive officer of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), the national association of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives, and he organized NRHI’s national Summits on Healthcare Payment Reform in 2007 and 2008 and its Summit on Regional Healthcare Transformation in 2013. Mr. Miller continues to work with NRHI and its members as Strategic Initiatives Consultant.

Mr. Miller’s work with the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) demonstrating the significant financial penalties that hospitals can face if they reduce hospital-acquired infections was featured in Modern Healthcare magazine in December, 2007. He designed and led a multi-year PRHI initiative that significantly reduced preventable hospital admissions and readmissions through improved care for chronic disease patients. In 2007 and early 2008, he served as the facilitator for the Minnesota Health Care Transformation Task Force, which prepared the recommendations that led to passage of Minnesota’s path-breaking healthcare reform legislation in May, 2008. He is currently working in a number of states and regions to help design and implement payment and delivery system reforms.

Mr. Miller serves on the Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum, and he has represented NRHI on the National Priorities Partnership. 
Jay Want, MD, is the owner and principal of Want Healthcare LLC. He consults for a wide variety of clients, including the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is also the Chief Medical Officer for the nonprofit Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC), a public-private partnership purposed to catalyze health care reform in Colorado. He serves on the board of the non-profit Rocky Mountain Health Plan, based in Grand Junction, Colorado.  In January 2012, he was appointed an Innovation Advisor for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation with the initial cohort of the program.

Dr. Want recently served as founding chairman of the board of CIVHC. For eight years he was President and Chief Executive Officer of a management services organization that is now part of the MSSP ACO program. He has served on task forces for the Colorado Division of Insurance, the Colorado Trust, the Colorado Hospital Association, the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Reform, and as a fellow of the Colorado Health Foundation. He also served as chairman of the Northwest Denver Care Transitions Steering Committee, a program that successfully lowered readmissions by 10% while improving care for Medicare beneficiaries over a two year period.  

In 2009, he assisted Senator Michael Bennet in drafting the Care Transitions Act, ultimately included in the Accountable Care Act under Section 3026. He has spoken nationally for the Brandeis Health Industry Forum, the Integrated Healthcare Association, AcademyHealth, and the American Medical Association. He was the 2010 recipient of the John K. Iglehart award for leadership in health care from the Colorado Health Foundation.

Dr. Want is board-certified in internal medicine, and was a primary care internist in private practice for ten years. This gives him a unique understanding of the challenges that health care reform poses for practicing physicians. He passionately believes that the current system is broken, and that physicians can and should lead the transformation to a more effective, efficient, and humane system for providers and patients alike. 

He received his internal medicine training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and his medical degree from Northwestern University. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He grew up outside of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, a very long time ago.


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