Session #16: 
How Allina Health Uses Analytics to Transform Care 
Penny Ann Wheeler, MD 
President and Chief Clinical Officer, Allina Health
ADVANCING CARE THROUGH ANALYTICS 
THE ALLINA HEALTH JOURNEY 
Penny Wheeler, M.D. 
President and Chief Clinical Officer 
September 2014
Key Questions 
• Who is Allina Health? 
• Why change? 
• What are the new measures of success? 
• What’s needed to move to higher value care? 
• How do we use advanced analytics to drive 
improvement? 
• What are our results thus far and lessons learned? 
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4
Allina is the Region’s Largest 
Health Care Organization 
• 13 Hospitals 
• 82 Clinic sites 
• 3 Ambulatory care centers 
• Pharmacy, hospice, home 
care, medical equipment 
• 26,000 employees 
• 5,000 physicians 
• 2.8 million+ clinic visits 
• 110,000+ inpatient hospital 
admissions 
• 1,658 staffed beds 
• 3.4B in revenue 
• 32% Twin Cities market 
share 
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The Imperative for Change: 
The Traditional Healthcare Model is Broken 
Representative timeline of a patient’s experiences in the U.S. health 
care system 
http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Quality/LearningHealthCare/Release%20Slides.pdf
Why Change? 
If food prices 
had risen at 
medical inflation rates 
since the 1930s 
*Source: American Institute for Preventive Medicine 
2009 
1 dozen eggs $85.08 
1 pound apples $12.97 
1 pound sugar $14.53 
1 roll toilet paper $25.67 
1 dozen oranges $114.47 
1 pound butter $108.29 
1 pound bananas $17.02 
1 pound bacon $129.94 
1 pound beef shoulder $46.22 
1 pound coffee $68.08 
10 Item Total $622.27 
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All About Creating Value… 
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Value = Good / Cost 
“Quality improvement is the most powerful driver of 
cost containment.” 
- Michael Porter, PhD Economics 
Harvard Business School
Preventable Complications 
Unnecessary Treatments 
Inefficiency 
Errors 
Services 
That 
Add 
Value 
40% 
Waste 
60% 
Value 
All Services 
Add 
Value 
100% 
Value 
Future 
Now 
What We Pay For… 
10
Poll Question #1 
In your opinion, which of the 4 categories of 
waste is the most important to address by the 
healthcare industry? 
a) Preventable Complications 
b) Unnecessary Treatments 
c) Inefficiency 
d) Errors
Four Measures of Success: 
Allina Health 2016 Strategic Outcomes 
1. Patient Care/Experience 
2. Population Health 
3. Patient Affordability 
4. Organizational Vitality 
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Better 
Care/ 
Experience 
Better 
Health 
Reduce per 
capita costs 
Organizational Vitality
Triple Aim Integration Initiatives 
Quality Roadmap 
Goal Initiative(s) 
1) Perform under payment for quality and 
value models 
Accountable care pilots 
• Pioneer ACO 
• Commercial partnerships 
2) Align incentives across employed and 
affiliated providers 
Allina Integrated Medical Network 
3) Give providers the data and 
information needed to improve 
outcomes 
Advanced analytics infrastructure 
including a robust Enterprise Data 
Warehouse (EDW) 
4) Provide consistently exceptional care 
without waste 
• Primary care team model redesign 
• Care management/patient engagement 
• Clinical program optimization 
5) Support transformation with new skills 
development 
Allina Advanced Training Program
Allina Health Enterprise Health Management Platform 
Transitioning Data to Actionable Information
Bridging Historical, Current, and Predictive Information 
Selected Health Intelligence & Delivery Tools at Allina 
PPR Dashboard 
“Potentially 
Preventables” 
Census 
Dashboard 
Enterprise Data 
Warehouse 
Reporting 
Workbench 
Retrospective Real time Predictive 
What happened? What is happening? What may happen? 
General Specific 
Readmissions 
Model 
Modeling of 
Potentially 
Preventable 
Events
Poll Question #2 
For healthcare providers, on a scale of 1-5, 
how well do you feel you are using predictive 
information to address potentially preventable 
events? 
1) No use 
2) Just starting or sporadic use 
3) Moderate use but increasing 
4) Good use 
5) Very strong use 
6) Unsure or not applicable
Example: Supporting Care Coordination 
Predicting Unnecessary Admissions and 
Readmissions 
Challenge 
– Substantially reduce unnecessary admissions and readmissions 
Solution 
– Predict patients at high risk for unnecessary admissions and readmissions 
– Develop and use census dashboard to identify and manage patients 
– Prioritize care coordination and clinical interventions based on risk level 
– Predictive model C-statistic of 0.729 
Results 
– Reduced readmissions for patients 
who received transition 
conferences (June 2013-June 
2014) 
• High-risk patients: 15.8% 
decrease in readmissions 
• Moderate-high-risk patients: 
5.4% decrease in readmissions
Getting the Model to the Bedside 
The Census Dashboard 
Identifies Patient 
Readmit Risk 
Identifies Transition 
Conference Status 
Identifies Prior IP Visits 
in Last Week & Month
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Allina Results: Heart Failure 
25% 
20% 
15% 
10% 
5% 
0% 
Combined Metro 
Combined Metro Linear (Combined Metro) 
2011 Q12011 Q22011 Q32011 Q42012 Q12012 Q22012 Q32012 Q42013 Q12013 Q22013 Q32013 Q4
RARE Campaign 
Graph provided by ICSI 
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The Readmission Model Results: 
How are our patients grouped? 
• High Risk: 
– 20 – 100% Readmission Risk: 7% of population 
• Moderate-High Risk: 
– 10 – 20% Readmission Risk: 19% of population 
• Moderate Risk: 
– 5 – 10% Readmission Risk: 35% of population 
• Low Risk: 
– 0 – 5% Readmission Risk: 39% of population 
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0% to 5% 5% to 10% 
10% to 
15% 
15% to 
20% 
20% to 
25% 
25% to 
35% 
35% to 
80% 
45% 
40% 
35% 
30% 
25% 
20% 
15% 
10% 
5% 
Percent of Total Patients 39% 35% 13% 6% 3% 3% 1% 
Percent of total Readmissions 14% 31% 22% 13% 9% 7% 5% 
35% 
30% 
25% 
20% 
15% 
10% 
5% 
0% 
0% 
Percent of Total Readmissions 
Percent of Total Patients 
Model estimated percent probability of readmission
Predictive Model Confidence 
Why do we believe the Readmission Model? 
Comparing existing models with standard C-Statistic (Area under 
ROC Curve) measure of performance 
– Random coin toss selection: 0.5 
– State-of-art techniques(ACG): (0.70 to 0.77)[1] 
– Current Allina technique: 0.861 
Allina Model was found to have a precision* of ~ 0.9 
*Precision is the fraction of Predicted patients that actually have a PPE. In this case, on a dataset in 
which it was tested about 90% of patients predicted by the model had a PPE. Note, this is different 
from sensitivity, which is the fraction of actual PPE instances that are predicted. 
1 Shannon M.E. Murphy, MA, Heather K. Castro, MS, and Martha Sylvia, PhD, MBA, RN, “Predictive Modeling in Practice: Improving the 
Participant Identification Process for Care Management Programs Using Condition-Specific Cut Points”, POPULATION HEALTH 
MANAGEMENT, Volume 14, Number 0, 2011
Example: Basic Cost Curve for Individual 
$9,000 
$8,000 
$7,000 
$6,000 
$5,000 
$4,000 
$3,000 
$2,000 
$1,000 
$0 
with a Major Hospitalization 
-20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 
Months Before and After High Cost Event 
Healthways Data for Diabetics with heart Failure(blue line) 
24 
Point of traditional payer-based 
care management 
Point of predictive 
intervention 
Green: potential cost curve 
with predictive intervention
Example: Supporting Cohort Management 
Providing Care to Patients with Diabetes 
Challenge 
– Provide superior care for Allina Health’s diabetic population 
Solution 
– Identified and stratified diabetes cohorts using registries 
– Identified gaps in care for diabetes patients (e.g. A1c, blood pressure 
management) 
– Provided workflow capability for care teams to manage the population 
through ambulatory quality dashboard 
Results 
– Highest national score for Diabetes Care Quality Measure in 2012 of all 
CMS Pioneer ACOs 
– U.S. leader in management of diabetes patients and Diabetes Optimal 
Care results
Supporting Cohort Management 
Driving Improvement through Access to Information 
Select by patient, 
clinic, provider or 
any combination Filter by Pioneer 
Shows performance 
of composite measure 
components 
ACO Patients
Example: Supporting Wellness & Prevention 
Successfully Keeping Patients Well 
Challenge 
– Avoiding future illness is core to 
superior population health 
management 
Solution 
– Established and reported on 
optimal care scores for individuals 
– Identified gaps in care and 
accurately connected them to care 
teams to close gaps in care 
Results 
– Eliminated significant gaps in 
wellness screening and 
preventative care 
– Allina Health has achieved some 
of the best ambulatory optimal 
care scores in the nation through a 
focused clinician engagement 
strategy using the EHMP 
Colon Cancer Screening Optimal Care 
76.0% 
71.0% 
66.0% 
61.0% 
88.0% 
86.0% 
84.0% 
82.0% 
80.0% 
78.0% 
76.0% 
74.0% 
Mammogram Optimal Care Goal = 85% 
Jan-11 
Mar-11 
May-11 
Jul-11 
Sep-11 
Nov-11 
Jan-12 
Mar-12 
May-12 
Jul-12 
Sep-12 
Nov-12 
Jan-13 
Mar-13 
May-13 
Jul-13 
56.0% 
Colon Cancer Screening Optimal Care Goal = 73% 
Mammogram Optimal Care
Supporting Wellness & Prevention 
Ambulatory Dashboard 
MD Name 
Ability to focus on a 
specific provider or 
patient population 
Shows performance on 
optimal care and component 
measures with patient detail, 
provider name and clinic
Summary 
This is only just the start… 
Lessons Learned 
– Pareto analysis of population data key for determining 
opportunity and focus 
– Consistent quality drives lower cost of care 
• Focus on waste / “unhelpful care variation” 
– Use predictive modeling to focus care management 
resources 
– Strengthen the patient/primary care team relationship 
– Keep the patient at the center of all decisions
Thank You
Transition from Volume to Value 
Planning for the inflection point 
Payment Type 
Penetration 
FFS 
Global payment 
Other 
Time 
100% 
50% 
5% 
• Retain patients (keepage) 
• Regulatory requirements 
• Manage risk progression 
• Payment reform 
• Increase volume 
• Maximize payment 
• Minimize cost 
• Meet regulatory 
requirements 
Today Transition Tomorrow 
Phase 
Objectives 
• Evolve priorities based on: 
• Contracts 
• Populations 
• Regulatory changes
Driving Improvement to Advance Care 
The Clinical Program Infrastructure 
Clinical Program Infrastructure 
Clinical /Operational 
Leadership Team 
Regional and system 
wide physician, 
administrative and 
clinical operations 
leaders needed to 
implement 
best practice 
Information Management Infrastructure 
Measurement System 
Staff support personnel 
and systems necessary 
to measure 
clinical, financial and 
satisfaction 
outcomes 
for key clinical 
processes 
Implementation Support 
Staff and systems 
necessary to develop, 
disseminate, support 
and maintain 
the clinical 
knowledge base 
necessary to 
implement 
best practice
Translating Concept to Action 
Selection of Key Allina Health Initiatives 
Allina Integrated Medical (AIM) Network 
– Aligns 900+ independent physicians and 1,200 Allina Health employed physicians to 
deliver market-leading quality and efficiency in patient care 
– Clinical Service Lines (CSLs) 
– Provide consistently exceptional and coordinated care across the continuum of care and 
across sites of care. CSLs are physician-led, professionally-managed and patient 
centered. 
Medicare Pioneer ACO 
– Member of CMS Pioneer Pilot Demonstration 
– Above average performance for 25 of 33 quality performance measures, including the 
highest performer for 3 of the measures 
– Held the Pioneer ACO Population to 0.8% cost growth for 2012 
Northwest Metro Alliance 
– A multi-year collaboration between HealthPartners & Allina Health in the Northwest Twin 
Cities suburbs focused on the Triple Aim and a learning lab for ACOs 
– Since the Alliance model was implemented, medical cost increases have been below the 
metro average for the past two years and cost increases were less than one percent for 
two years in a row 
– Expanded access to stress tests for ED patients with chest pain and prevented 480 low-risk 
chest pain inpatient admissions, saving an estimated $2.16 Million in 2012
Pioneer ACO 
Selected Focus Areas 
Area of Focus Implemented Tactics 
Preventable 
Admissions & 
Emergency Department 
Visits 
• Applied risk stratification to provide outreach and support to patients at risk for preventable 
events through Advanced Care Team or Team Care resources 
• Outreach to patients who have not been seen, check treatment compliance and schedule visit 
• Using After-Visit-Summary instructions during patient follow-up care 
• Develop patient-centered goals 
• Provide social worker support if needed 
• Provide support for Advanced Care Planning 
Preventable 
Readmissions 
• Applied predictive tool to identify patients most at risk for readmission 
• Prepare integrated After-Visit-Summary and provide the patient w/a Discharge ‘Packet’ 
• Provider transitions 
• Care transitions intervention 
• Determine and leverage role of pharmacist 
• Patient education 
• Skilled nursing facility transitions 
Mental Health • Care coordination for high-risk patients 
• Assign a Primary Care Provider to each MH patient 
• Eliminate delayed access 
• Effective management of MH resources through patient prioritization 
• Efficient patient transitions 
Late Life Supportive 
Care 
• Redesigning care so that patient’s needs are documented and that caregivers including family 
are able to access, understand, and comply during the course of caring for the patient 
End Stage Renal 
Disease (ESRD) 
• Currently in process of reviewing potential opportunities with nephrologists
Results: Allina’s Elective Inductions 
< 39 Weeks (%) 
35% 
30% 
25% 
20% 
15% 
10% 
5% 
0% 
2009-01 2009-04 2009-07 2009-10 2010-01 2010-04 2010-07 2010-10 2011-01 2011-04 2011-07 2011-10 2012-01 2012-04 2012-07 2012-10 2013-01 2013-04 
Allina Allina 2009 Baseline Allina 2013 Goal

How Allina Health Uses Analytics to Transform Care - HAS Session 16

  • 1.
    Session #16: HowAllina Health Uses Analytics to Transform Care Penny Ann Wheeler, MD President and Chief Clinical Officer, Allina Health
  • 2.
    ADVANCING CARE THROUGHANALYTICS THE ALLINA HEALTH JOURNEY Penny Wheeler, M.D. President and Chief Clinical Officer September 2014
  • 3.
    Key Questions •Who is Allina Health? • Why change? • What are the new measures of success? • What’s needed to move to higher value care? • How do we use advanced analytics to drive improvement? • What are our results thus far and lessons learned? 3
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  • 5.
    Allina is theRegion’s Largest Health Care Organization • 13 Hospitals • 82 Clinic sites • 3 Ambulatory care centers • Pharmacy, hospice, home care, medical equipment • 26,000 employees • 5,000 physicians • 2.8 million+ clinic visits • 110,000+ inpatient hospital admissions • 1,658 staffed beds • 3.4B in revenue • 32% Twin Cities market share 5
  • 6.
    The Imperative forChange: The Traditional Healthcare Model is Broken Representative timeline of a patient’s experiences in the U.S. health care system http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/Quality/LearningHealthCare/Release%20Slides.pdf
  • 7.
    Why Change? Iffood prices had risen at medical inflation rates since the 1930s *Source: American Institute for Preventive Medicine 2009 1 dozen eggs $85.08 1 pound apples $12.97 1 pound sugar $14.53 1 roll toilet paper $25.67 1 dozen oranges $114.47 1 pound butter $108.29 1 pound bananas $17.02 1 pound bacon $129.94 1 pound beef shoulder $46.22 1 pound coffee $68.08 10 Item Total $622.27 7
  • 9.
    All About CreatingValue… 9 Value = Good / Cost “Quality improvement is the most powerful driver of cost containment.” - Michael Porter, PhD Economics Harvard Business School
  • 10.
    Preventable Complications UnnecessaryTreatments Inefficiency Errors Services That Add Value 40% Waste 60% Value All Services Add Value 100% Value Future Now What We Pay For… 10
  • 11.
    Poll Question #1 In your opinion, which of the 4 categories of waste is the most important to address by the healthcare industry? a) Preventable Complications b) Unnecessary Treatments c) Inefficiency d) Errors
  • 12.
    Four Measures ofSuccess: Allina Health 2016 Strategic Outcomes 1. Patient Care/Experience 2. Population Health 3. Patient Affordability 4. Organizational Vitality 12 Better Care/ Experience Better Health Reduce per capita costs Organizational Vitality
  • 14.
    Triple Aim IntegrationInitiatives Quality Roadmap Goal Initiative(s) 1) Perform under payment for quality and value models Accountable care pilots • Pioneer ACO • Commercial partnerships 2) Align incentives across employed and affiliated providers Allina Integrated Medical Network 3) Give providers the data and information needed to improve outcomes Advanced analytics infrastructure including a robust Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) 4) Provide consistently exceptional care without waste • Primary care team model redesign • Care management/patient engagement • Clinical program optimization 5) Support transformation with new skills development Allina Advanced Training Program
  • 15.
    Allina Health EnterpriseHealth Management Platform Transitioning Data to Actionable Information
  • 16.
    Bridging Historical, Current,and Predictive Information Selected Health Intelligence & Delivery Tools at Allina PPR Dashboard “Potentially Preventables” Census Dashboard Enterprise Data Warehouse Reporting Workbench Retrospective Real time Predictive What happened? What is happening? What may happen? General Specific Readmissions Model Modeling of Potentially Preventable Events
  • 17.
    Poll Question #2 For healthcare providers, on a scale of 1-5, how well do you feel you are using predictive information to address potentially preventable events? 1) No use 2) Just starting or sporadic use 3) Moderate use but increasing 4) Good use 5) Very strong use 6) Unsure or not applicable
  • 18.
    Example: Supporting CareCoordination Predicting Unnecessary Admissions and Readmissions Challenge – Substantially reduce unnecessary admissions and readmissions Solution – Predict patients at high risk for unnecessary admissions and readmissions – Develop and use census dashboard to identify and manage patients – Prioritize care coordination and clinical interventions based on risk level – Predictive model C-statistic of 0.729 Results – Reduced readmissions for patients who received transition conferences (June 2013-June 2014) • High-risk patients: 15.8% decrease in readmissions • Moderate-high-risk patients: 5.4% decrease in readmissions
  • 19.
    Getting the Modelto the Bedside The Census Dashboard Identifies Patient Readmit Risk Identifies Transition Conference Status Identifies Prior IP Visits in Last Week & Month
  • 20.
    20 Allina Results:Heart Failure 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% Combined Metro Combined Metro Linear (Combined Metro) 2011 Q12011 Q22011 Q32011 Q42012 Q12012 Q22012 Q32012 Q42013 Q12013 Q22013 Q32013 Q4
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    RARE Campaign Graphprovided by ICSI 21
  • 22.
    The Readmission ModelResults: How are our patients grouped? • High Risk: – 20 – 100% Readmission Risk: 7% of population • Moderate-High Risk: – 10 – 20% Readmission Risk: 19% of population • Moderate Risk: – 5 – 10% Readmission Risk: 35% of population • Low Risk: – 0 – 5% Readmission Risk: 39% of population 22 0% to 5% 5% to 10% 10% to 15% 15% to 20% 20% to 25% 25% to 35% 35% to 80% 45% 40% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% Percent of Total Patients 39% 35% 13% 6% 3% 3% 1% Percent of total Readmissions 14% 31% 22% 13% 9% 7% 5% 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% 0% Percent of Total Readmissions Percent of Total Patients Model estimated percent probability of readmission
  • 23.
    Predictive Model Confidence Why do we believe the Readmission Model? Comparing existing models with standard C-Statistic (Area under ROC Curve) measure of performance – Random coin toss selection: 0.5 – State-of-art techniques(ACG): (0.70 to 0.77)[1] – Current Allina technique: 0.861 Allina Model was found to have a precision* of ~ 0.9 *Precision is the fraction of Predicted patients that actually have a PPE. In this case, on a dataset in which it was tested about 90% of patients predicted by the model had a PPE. Note, this is different from sensitivity, which is the fraction of actual PPE instances that are predicted. 1 Shannon M.E. Murphy, MA, Heather K. Castro, MS, and Martha Sylvia, PhD, MBA, RN, “Predictive Modeling in Practice: Improving the Participant Identification Process for Care Management Programs Using Condition-Specific Cut Points”, POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT, Volume 14, Number 0, 2011
  • 24.
    Example: Basic CostCurve for Individual $9,000 $8,000 $7,000 $6,000 $5,000 $4,000 $3,000 $2,000 $1,000 $0 with a Major Hospitalization -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Months Before and After High Cost Event Healthways Data for Diabetics with heart Failure(blue line) 24 Point of traditional payer-based care management Point of predictive intervention Green: potential cost curve with predictive intervention
  • 25.
    Example: Supporting CohortManagement Providing Care to Patients with Diabetes Challenge – Provide superior care for Allina Health’s diabetic population Solution – Identified and stratified diabetes cohorts using registries – Identified gaps in care for diabetes patients (e.g. A1c, blood pressure management) – Provided workflow capability for care teams to manage the population through ambulatory quality dashboard Results – Highest national score for Diabetes Care Quality Measure in 2012 of all CMS Pioneer ACOs – U.S. leader in management of diabetes patients and Diabetes Optimal Care results
  • 26.
    Supporting Cohort Management Driving Improvement through Access to Information Select by patient, clinic, provider or any combination Filter by Pioneer Shows performance of composite measure components ACO Patients
  • 27.
    Example: Supporting Wellness& Prevention Successfully Keeping Patients Well Challenge – Avoiding future illness is core to superior population health management Solution – Established and reported on optimal care scores for individuals – Identified gaps in care and accurately connected them to care teams to close gaps in care Results – Eliminated significant gaps in wellness screening and preventative care – Allina Health has achieved some of the best ambulatory optimal care scores in the nation through a focused clinician engagement strategy using the EHMP Colon Cancer Screening Optimal Care 76.0% 71.0% 66.0% 61.0% 88.0% 86.0% 84.0% 82.0% 80.0% 78.0% 76.0% 74.0% Mammogram Optimal Care Goal = 85% Jan-11 Mar-11 May-11 Jul-11 Sep-11 Nov-11 Jan-12 Mar-12 May-12 Jul-12 Sep-12 Nov-12 Jan-13 Mar-13 May-13 Jul-13 56.0% Colon Cancer Screening Optimal Care Goal = 73% Mammogram Optimal Care
  • 28.
    Supporting Wellness &Prevention Ambulatory Dashboard MD Name Ability to focus on a specific provider or patient population Shows performance on optimal care and component measures with patient detail, provider name and clinic
  • 29.
    Summary This isonly just the start… Lessons Learned – Pareto analysis of population data key for determining opportunity and focus – Consistent quality drives lower cost of care • Focus on waste / “unhelpful care variation” – Use predictive modeling to focus care management resources – Strengthen the patient/primary care team relationship – Keep the patient at the center of all decisions
  • 30.
  • 31.
    Transition from Volumeto Value Planning for the inflection point Payment Type Penetration FFS Global payment Other Time 100% 50% 5% • Retain patients (keepage) • Regulatory requirements • Manage risk progression • Payment reform • Increase volume • Maximize payment • Minimize cost • Meet regulatory requirements Today Transition Tomorrow Phase Objectives • Evolve priorities based on: • Contracts • Populations • Regulatory changes
  • 32.
    Driving Improvement toAdvance Care The Clinical Program Infrastructure Clinical Program Infrastructure Clinical /Operational Leadership Team Regional and system wide physician, administrative and clinical operations leaders needed to implement best practice Information Management Infrastructure Measurement System Staff support personnel and systems necessary to measure clinical, financial and satisfaction outcomes for key clinical processes Implementation Support Staff and systems necessary to develop, disseminate, support and maintain the clinical knowledge base necessary to implement best practice
  • 33.
    Translating Concept toAction Selection of Key Allina Health Initiatives Allina Integrated Medical (AIM) Network – Aligns 900+ independent physicians and 1,200 Allina Health employed physicians to deliver market-leading quality and efficiency in patient care – Clinical Service Lines (CSLs) – Provide consistently exceptional and coordinated care across the continuum of care and across sites of care. CSLs are physician-led, professionally-managed and patient centered. Medicare Pioneer ACO – Member of CMS Pioneer Pilot Demonstration – Above average performance for 25 of 33 quality performance measures, including the highest performer for 3 of the measures – Held the Pioneer ACO Population to 0.8% cost growth for 2012 Northwest Metro Alliance – A multi-year collaboration between HealthPartners & Allina Health in the Northwest Twin Cities suburbs focused on the Triple Aim and a learning lab for ACOs – Since the Alliance model was implemented, medical cost increases have been below the metro average for the past two years and cost increases were less than one percent for two years in a row – Expanded access to stress tests for ED patients with chest pain and prevented 480 low-risk chest pain inpatient admissions, saving an estimated $2.16 Million in 2012
  • 34.
    Pioneer ACO SelectedFocus Areas Area of Focus Implemented Tactics Preventable Admissions & Emergency Department Visits • Applied risk stratification to provide outreach and support to patients at risk for preventable events through Advanced Care Team or Team Care resources • Outreach to patients who have not been seen, check treatment compliance and schedule visit • Using After-Visit-Summary instructions during patient follow-up care • Develop patient-centered goals • Provide social worker support if needed • Provide support for Advanced Care Planning Preventable Readmissions • Applied predictive tool to identify patients most at risk for readmission • Prepare integrated After-Visit-Summary and provide the patient w/a Discharge ‘Packet’ • Provider transitions • Care transitions intervention • Determine and leverage role of pharmacist • Patient education • Skilled nursing facility transitions Mental Health • Care coordination for high-risk patients • Assign a Primary Care Provider to each MH patient • Eliminate delayed access • Effective management of MH resources through patient prioritization • Efficient patient transitions Late Life Supportive Care • Redesigning care so that patient’s needs are documented and that caregivers including family are able to access, understand, and comply during the course of caring for the patient End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) • Currently in process of reviewing potential opportunities with nephrologists
  • 35.
    Results: Allina’s ElectiveInductions < 39 Weeks (%) 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% 2009-01 2009-04 2009-07 2009-10 2010-01 2010-04 2010-07 2010-10 2011-01 2011-04 2011-07 2011-10 2012-01 2012-04 2012-07 2012-10 2013-01 2013-04 Allina Allina 2009 Baseline Allina 2013 Goal