Minnesota

A 2-day seminar by Paul Plsek

About the seminar:

Transformation requires creative thinking. While the need to transform healthcare delivery is pressing, most of what we see in practice is incremental variations on the same themes.  For example, we strive to improve patient experience or reduce waiting times, but maintain the decades-old mental models of, "You come to see us" and "this is the sequence of events that must occur."  We need better ideas that challenge these underlying models.

Medications are involved in 80 percent of all treatments and impact every aspect of a patient's life. Drug therapy problems occur every day and represent a public health challenge that add substantial costs to the health care system. In recent years, Minnesota has established exemplary practices that incorporate medication management and has seen improvements in outcomes of care and reduced costs. Join us for an overview and a look at lessons learned from Minnesota's experience using comprehensive team-based medication management to delivery efficient and effective care. 

A leader in care quality improvement and cost reduction, Minnesota's Health Care Home (HCH) initiative, which includes 322 certified Health Care Homes, has lowered costs for Medicaid enrollees by more than 9% since the program began in 2010. The Director of Minnesota's Health Care Home initiative, joins us to provide an overview of Minnesota's innovative program and the lead evaluator of Minnesota's Health Care Home initiative, will review key findings of the 2014 Health Care Home Evaluation Report to the Minnesota State Legislature. 

As states seek to improve quality of care and health outcomes while reducing costs, many have turned to accountable care models. One key aspect of accountable care models is that organizations or structures assume responsibility for the care and outcomes of a defined population across a continuum of care and across different parts of the health system. These models generally hold providers accountable through payments linked to value and performance measurement.