{"id":3064,"date":"2018-03-22T10:59:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/industry\/blog\/uncategorized\/developing-healthier-communities-through-comprehensive-care-plans\/"},"modified":"2023-05-31T16:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T23:24:46","slug":"developing-healthier-communities-through-comprehensive-care-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/government\/2018\/03\/22\/developing-healthier-communities-through-comprehensive-care-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing healthier communities through comprehensive care plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\"\"Before Jim Calanni joined Microsoft partner Eccovia Solutions<\/a>, he was chief technology officer for the Colorado Springs-based Community Health Partnership (CHP)<\/a>, which managed the care of over 180,000 members in Region 7 of Colorado\u2019s Accountable Care Collaborative. Jim led the design and development of a comprehensive, data-sharing infrastructure linking primary care, mental health and social services providers across a region, in this case, Southern Colorado.<\/p>\n

Jim recently shared his wealth of expertise in an Eccovia Solutions webinar<\/a> to help other areas create their own comprehensive care plans for healthier individuals and families. Jim and his CHP colleagues used technology from Eccovia Solutions and Microsoft to develop a true community care program as opposed to the more typical solution revolving around historical charting of past medical issues. \u201cThe paradigm shift that I saw when I took my previous position at the Community Health Partnership was moving from disease treatment to a prevention model,\u201d he explained. \u201cHow do we get in front of the problem of chronic conditions or social-economic factors that contribute to reduced health for folks?\u201d<\/p>\n

The CHP team first looked at healthcare costs and where money was being spent. They found that most dollars were going toward pharmaceuticals, with very little spent on preventing medical problems. To reverse that trend, Jim said, \u201cwe wanted to build an infrastructure that was capable of collecting data at the ground level and then moving that data into an organized fashion, coalescing it into information, and then moving that information into knowledge by beginning to apply some data analytics and science to it.\u201d The outcome: getting enhanced information into the hands of the broad, coordinated health community to have a greater impact on the public becoming healthier through preventive measures.<\/p>\n

CHP used Eccovia Solutions\u2019 ClientTrack Care Coordination platform<\/a>, powered by the trusted Microsoft Azure Government<\/a> cloud, to manage patient care with multiple agencies across the care continuum. Over the past five years, their innovative community care program revolutionized the Medicaid delivery system through a collaboration of local health providers. The coordinated, community-based strategy also optimized the outcomes and care of high-risk populations, such as the homeless, children in foster care and those who overutilize emergency departments.<\/p>\n

For communities considering developing a similar care coordination framework that enables a comprehensive care plan, Jim suggests asking these six questions:<\/p>\n