21st Century Intelligent Hospital

As the health system transforms into a system that is individual-centered, information rich, electronic-based, transparent of price and quality, prevention and health-focused, metrics led and outcomes focused, the hospital has the opportunity to be the centerpiece of innovation and modernization. Hospitals have the community prestige to bring together the major payers and the local governments to develop a regional health information organization. Hospitals can and should host the dialogue that brings the entire community into the 21st century. The purpose of the Center for Health Transformation’s 21st Century Intelligent Hospital Project is to work collaboratively with transformational hospital leaders to develop and test the models, regulations, and policies needed for the hospitals to lead the transformation.

Melissa Ferguson Co-Project Director Laura Linn Co-Project Director

Mission

The mission on the 21st Century Intelligent Hospital Project is to accelerate the adoption of transformational solutions and policies for better health and more choices at lower cost that leads to the adoption and acceleration of the following initiatives:

• Electronic Health Records
• Patient Safety
• Innovative technologies
• Consumerism
• Medical Liability Reform
• Uninsured
• Transparency
• Workforce shortage
• Professional and individual health education
• Hospital as an Employer
• Health as an Opportunity
• Engaged Employees Project

The one of the ultimate goals is to work collaboratively with health systems to address various policy and system changes that will create an effective, efficient, and productive health delivery system that delivers high quality and efficient care. Such initiatives will include:

• Rational Reimbursement model across the entire system that rewards better quality and more efficient care – performance based reimbursement
• Solutions on insuring all Americans
• Developing a system centered on prevention, early testing and wellness
• Greater patient responsibility for engaging in healthy behavior and managing their personal decisions in order to increase the likelihood of better health outcomes;
• Greater decision-making power in the hands of the physician-patient partnership, rather than third-party bureaucracies;
• Strategies around price and quality information
• Development of a 21st Century System of Health Justice and Patient Safety;
• Develop, deploy and implement electronic health records and other health information technologies;
• Use of 21st century technologies that allow health care providers to engage in new, easier and real-time methods of continuing medical education;
• Turning healthcare into an opportunity rather than a problem.