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. The Missouri Project is an opportunity to replicate the successes of CHT's groundbreaking Georgia Project, launched in 2003.

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. Successful initiatives in Georgia include a focus on diabetes and obesity, e-prescribing, eliminating minority health disparities, and increased access to cost and quality information.

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.

Action to Date and Plan

1. Kicked off the project with an event in St. Louis on June 19 where Newt shared his vision of a 21st Century Intelligent Health System that saves lives and saves money. We also hosted a CEO roundtable prior to the lunch event to discuss issues in Missouri, with specific focus areas of need.
2. Our CHT member based Missouri Project Advisory Board (M-PAB) held its first meeting August 27, 2007.  At that meeting we reviewed the results of an environmental scan of current initiatives, and reviewed data about health status in MO as well as other health related data.
3. Based on the data we will apply the Center for Health Transformation’s principles and models as we identify the strategies and projects to meet the goal of creating a 21st Century Intelligent Health System in MO that saves lives and saves money.

Participants in our Missouri Project will advise on and participate in interventions or 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, etc.

If you need further information about the project, please contact Julie Eckstein by email at jeckstein@gingrichgroup.com or by phone at 314-542-3022.

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