Missouri Project Vision The vision of our Missouri Project is the creation of a collaboration of leaders dedicated to the creation of a healthy Missouri with a 21st Century Intelligent Health System that saves lives and saves money.

Julie Eckstein Project Director

Like Georgia, the Missouri initiative is critical to the Center's ability to accelerate system-wide health transformation. In both of these states, we have a unique opportunity to generate and implement projects to test solutions that promote value-based healthcare, increase access, and reduce costs.

Mission

To create and accelerate the adoption of transformational solutions and policies that save lives and save money for all Missourians.

Project Strategies

To use the coalition model convening key leaders from all sectors in Missouri and with key federal and government leaders to accelerate the creation and adoption of solutions, technologies and policies that drive system-wide transformation into a 21st Century Health System that saves lives and saves money for all Americans.

Project Priorities

Members of the MO Project Advisory Board selected three topics for the initial focus of our work. Those are the uninsured, obesity/diabetes and health disparities. Health IT plays a major role in those and has also become a key area of work.

1. Cover all Missourians – CHT believes that all Americans and hence all Missourians need to be in our system of insurance coverage. Our Missouri Project uninsured work group has created recommendations to reduce the number of uninsured Missourians and has worked with the Missouri legislature and Executive branch to introduce and support those recommendations.
2. Diabetes/Obesity – This work group has addressed several areas of these issues and is currently focused on the development of a worksite based program that will include resources from many of our member organizations.
3. Health disparities – Our health disparities work group is designing a toolkit and research project targeted at medical school student associations and has built much excitement locally and nationally around this opportunity to reduce disparities that patients experience in their medical care.

Participants in our Missouri Project advise on and participate in our work groups and initiatives that will help us achieve the defined goals around such topics as health information technology, covering the uninsured, chronic disease management, the consumer's right to know, improved access, consumer driven healthcare, realigning reimbursement, etc.