Congratulations to PCCI’s Jacqueline Naeem, MD, on being chosen to represent PCCI in the UpNext Exchange. The UpNext Exchange is designed to bring together the next generation of bright leaders in healthcare and provide a network of peers. https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/strategy/healthleaders-announces-2023-upnext-honorees
Read PCCI’s CEO Steve Miff’s views in an article posted by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) called “Reimagining the Patient-Caregiver Relationship”:
PCCI uses data to identify broad clusters of patients who have clinical, socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in common. Integrated practice units care for specific clusters — bringing together “the right specialties, support services, you create a virtual behavioral health consult and are able to holistically bring all those together to treat the whole person,” Miff said.
In early December, the six community health collaboratives that make up Texas Accountable Communities for Health (TACHI) convened in Austin for a conference where a variety of experts shared their perspectives on the impact of the multi-year initiative designed to support the development of financially sustainable, multi-sector community health collaboratives in six Texas communities. The theme of the gathering was “Clinic-to-Community Partnerships: Healthcare Partners’ Perspectives.”
In the morning of the conference, Jeff Levi (Principal Investigator of the Funders Forum on Accountable Health) presented an overview of national Accountable Communities for Health (ACH) trends. Following the keynote address, a panel representing diverse perspectives discussed clinic-community partnerships. Discussion panelists included:
Following the panel, the conference included a variety of interactive breakout sessions such as fireside chats and open space facilitated discussions.
TACHI is supported by the Episcopal Health Foundation, St. Joseph’s Health, and St. David’s Foundation.
About TACHI
Given the growing recognition of how social determinants of health (SDOH) significantly influence health outcomes and healthcare use, policymakers and funders have examined various community-led approaches to address community health. However, SDOH approaches are hampered by a key set of challenges including funding streams being siloed and short-term in nature, individual organizations having competing priorities, data systems being disconnected, equity not being embedded in heath policy and practice, and the lack of authentic engagement of communities and stakeholders.
To address these challenges, Episcopal Health Foundation launched a multi-year initiative to support existing collaboratives in our region to become high-functioning and sustainable entities known as Accountable Communities for Health (ACH).
ACHs are community-based partnerships formed across sectors such as healthcare, housing, social services, public health, employment training, and economic development, to focus on a shared vision and responsibility for the health of the community.
For more information go to: https://www.txachi.org/
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On December 7, PCCI’s CEO Steve Miff Tweeted out the following COVID-19 update for Dallas County:
https://twitter.com/PCCInnovation/status/1600258281179529218?s=20&t=q_h-7FdabNGsPDcgOO1ckQ
The trends over the last few weeks are worth noting. Since the November 21st report, positive active cases have increased by 94% for the whole population and 56% for the pediatric cohort.
Covid-19 lab positivity for both symptomatic and asymptomatic testing increased to over 10% each (waste water testing data supports lab tests with sharply rising levels at Bachman) showing the folowing:
• Covid-19 hospitalizations jumped week-over-week by over 106% across Dallas County and 83% in the broader North Texas region
• Accounting for all the typical fall/winter cases, the elevated respiratory conditions, and Covid-19, hospital bed occupancy rate is over 92%.
We will likely see a couple more jump in cases over the next few weeks and then likely bigger jumps towards Christmas and New Year. The magnitude for UK was 2x and Singapore 4x from baselines, but both of those regions have higher vaccination rates.
• Only ~7.7% of the Dallas population has received the bivalent boosters (compared to 7.7% across Texas and 12.1% nationally).
• Bivalent vaccinations continue to be low:
• Only 25% of residents 65 years and older and;
• Only ~7% of the above 5 years old population receiving a booster.
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Congratulations to PCCI’s CEO Steve Miff for being named to D CEO’s Dallas 500 list. This list includes the top business leaders in Dallas, representing some of the most dynamic organizations in the region. This is the third year in a row for PCCI to be honored by D CEO.
D CEO posts all the winners of its recent Excellence in Healthcare Awards, where PCCI’s CEO Steve Miff was named Outstanding Healthcare Innovator: “Steve Miff is one of the most innovative leaders in the Dallas healthcare community. His organization has guided the community through COVID-19 by graphing everything from outbreaks to vulnerability with its unique software that has been mimicked all over the country.”
Congratulations to the PCCI team for the work it produced to earn this award and to all the finalists who are committed to serving our community.
D Magazine examines how PCCI coordinated a five-year communitywide effort to reduce costs and ER usage for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
Hospital Frequent Flyers: The North Texas Solution
Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation and its partners are on a mission to address this perennial problem; it took years of theoretical planning and put it into action. Here is what it did.
“The initiative proved the theory correct. The program delivered savings compared to not addressing these needs and paying for the healthcare consequences. In addition, individuals who received follow-up care went to the emergency room less than a comparable control group and utilized the hospital less during the navigation and in the 12 months following the interaction.”
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PCCI has been named as a finalist for the D CEO and Dallas Innovates’ fourth annual Innovation Awards. The program honors companies, CEOs, CIOS, CTOs, entrepreneurs, and other leaders who are helping to make Dallas-Fort Worth an innovation hub. PCCI is nominated in the “Innovation in Healthcare” category for its approach to supporting the community through the COVID-19 outbreak, its support for pediatric asthma patients, its preterm birth prevention programs and the management of the managing the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model in Dallas County.
All finalists will be recognized in the January/February issue of D CEO magazine and online at DallasInnovates.com; winners will be revealed at an event in January.
https://www.dmagazine.com/business-economy/2022/11/finalists-announced-the-innovation-awards-2023/
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team of clinical, regulatory, innovation, technical, and operational leaders at health systems across the United States, including PCCI’s Steve Miff, comment on HHS’s proposed rule prohibiting discrimination via algorithm needs strengthening.
“We share HHS’s goal of ensuring that clinical algorithms advance health equity and protect civil rights. Yet we are also keenly aware of the work necessary to achieve that goal. We highlight here three features of the proposed rule that limit the ability of any health system to comply with it, and offer recommendations to strengthen the proposed rule to prevent discrimination.”
This episode of Becker’s Healthcare Podcast features Steve Miff, President and CEO at Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI). Here, he discusses PCCI’s work in serving underserved populations through leveraging data science, how AI & machine learning applications help personalize healthcare at scale, and more.