Inside this issue:

New Non-Acute

CCHA Members

2

Illucient, Contracts, &

Operations Update

2

“Alliance Day 2016”

Event Recap

3

2017 Annual CCHIE

Town Hall Meeting

3

CCHIE Data Mart for

Population Health

4

Wilmington “Residents

Reception” Recap

4

Over 120 guests from CCHA member hospitals and community partners attended Alliance Day 2016 on December 2nd (full story on page 3)

News & Notes COASTAL CAROLINAS HEALTH ALLIANCE

CEO Update highl ight ing the many successes we achieved through regional collaboration. We sincerely appreciate the o n go in g s u pp o r t a nd dedication of our members, which have helped make so many initiatives possible this

year.

Coastal Connect Health I n f o r m a t i o n E x c h a n g e continues to add data contributors; we recently added access to ambulatory and acute patient information from New Hanover Regional Medical Center. We also completed results delivery with several practices across

the region.

The Mobi le Simulat ion

Thank you to e v e r y o n e w h o attended CCHA’s Alliance Day 2016 event on December 2nd! We are glad that

so many of our members were able to join us for the celebration, which was held at the Holiday Inn Resort on

Wrightsville Beach.

Our theme for the day was resilience through both change and challenges. Our wonderful keynote speakers touched on this topic. Their work and experiences in health care attest to the power

of resilience.

Alliance Day was a nice way of wrapping up the year and

Program (MSP) ended FY 2016 strong with a 10% increase in staff training utilization at our member hospitals. The MSP team continues to work on ways to diversify our training offerings. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve added a new patient simulator mannequin: Adult

HAL.

Illucient Purchasing Alliance has also kept busy with reviewing and negotiating new contracts. We end the calendar year with just over 130 agreements in the

Illucient portfolio.

2016 was a fantastic year, and we look forward to another

busy year ahead!

Illucient Purchasing Alliance Update

several Illucient business partners to attend project team meetings for presentations. Ultimately, we are working hard to ensure all of our Illucient members are aware of the contract opportunities available to them. We have published a summary contract portfolio and share this resource both electronically (via email)

and in hard copy at meetings.

Going forward, we plan to

“spotlight” contracts in the

weekly operations report to

our Board of Directors as a

way of reminding them about

available opportunities. Since

many of our contracts

provide access to discounts, services,

and products that the national group

purchasing organizations do not offer, it

will be important to determine if our

members can use contracts outside of

their GPOs and corporate directives.

Information Exchange, so this is a

logical expansion of our relationship.

We are reaching out

to other non-acute

h e a l t h c a r e

providers throughout

our region that

complement the

services provided by

our acute members.

CCHA has set a

goal to bring in

twenty non-acute

members over the

next twelve months.

We’re exc ited about the new

membership opportunities made

possible through this expansion to our

bylaws, and we welcome our two first

non-acute members!

Historically, membership in

Coastal Carolinas Health

Alliance has been exclusively

hospitals and health systems.

However, this past summer our

Board of Directors approved a

slight change to our bylaws, opening up a

new membership tier for non-acute

providers.

Non-acute CCHA members will have

access to contracts in the CCHA portfolio,

thereby adding their purchasing volume to

current and future negotiations. Non-acute

members will also be able to tap into the

CCHA’s various project teams (Lab

Directors, Materials Directors, etc.) and

education through the Mobile Simulation

Program.

We are thrilled to announce that two non-

acute providers have joined CCHA

through this new membership tier:

Wilmington Health and Cape Fear Clinic.

Wilmington Health, the largest private,

fully integrated, multi -

specialty medical group

practice in Southeastern

North Carolina, has been

treating patients for nearly 40

years. Cape Fear Clinic is a

charitable clinic with on site

medical, pharmacy, mental

health, and dental services,

serving adults in New

Hanover, Brunswick, Pender,

and Columbus Counties who

are uninsured and have incomes of no

more than 200% of Federal Poverty

Guidelines or have Medicaid. Both

Wilmington Health and Cape Fear Clinic

are current participants in CCHA’s sister

organization, Coastal Connect Health

Two Non-Acute Healthcare Providers Join Alliance through New Membership Category

The Illucient Purchasing Alliance

contract portfolio continues to

grow. This quarter alone, ten

new contracts were added along

with one contract renewal. These

new contract agreements

provide access to discounted services in

areas such as diabetes

m a n a g e m e n t s u p p o r t ;

phys ic ian rec ru i tmen t ;

temporary staffing; patient

financing; medical equipment

service and recycl ing;

telesitter services; and data

analytics.

During the past few months we have also focused on increasing the utilization of existing contracts. Illucient staff have hosted a number of online webinars, which were tailored to specific departments or teams, such as Pharmacy or Supply Chain. In addition, we invited

2017 Medicare Boot Camp Event Receives Silver Sponsorship

Our 2017 Medicare Boot Camp event has received a Silver sponsorship from Nemadji

Research Corporation.

Nemadji Research Corp. provides a back-end data

analytics recovery solution that utilizes a proprietary data mining software to identify third party coverage (Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial) on aged accounts that was not p r e v i o u s l y

identified.

This agreement is available to our hospitals through the Illucient contract portfolio. Thank you, Nemadji

Research, for sponsoring our event!

opportunity for the CCHIE team to share stories from the field as well as updates about new and upcoming functionality

that will be available.

Last year’s event was very well-received and attendees said they enjoyed having the opportunity to network with other

c o n n e c t e d providers, hear those organizational u p d a t e s , a n d receive education t h r o u g h t h e

speakers.

Save-the-Date invitations will be sent in the coming weeks, so please keep an eye out for them. We hope to see

another great turnout this year!

Coastal Connect Heal th Information Exchange (CCHIE) will host its annual Town Hall Meeting on Friday, March 10th, at the Country Club of Landfall in Wilmington, NC. Two great

speakers will be joining us for talks on

claims compliance and MACRA.

Dr. Gregory Palega will be speaking on “Claims Liability and Enhancing CMS Compliance,” and Mary McCaskgill will

take us through “Navigating MACRA.”

Each year, we invite physicians, providers, and other key office personnel f rom our connected community to attend this meeting. It’s an

CCHIE Integration Milestone:

Additional CCDs Available

Coastal Connect HIE participants

can query and retrieve Continuity

Care Documents (CCDs) from New

Hanover Regional Medical Center

for acute and ambulatory

patients. This added value helps to

support transition of care among

participants.

In addition, CCHIE completed results

delivery integration with: Black River

Health, Cape Fear Clinic, Brunswick

Family, Robeson Pediatrics, and Leo

Warshauer, MD.

We are excited about upcoming projects

such adding UNC Healthcare as an eHealth

Exchange partner by the end of January

2017.

pertinent message.

Of course, Alliance Day wouldn’t be

possible without the support of our

great business partner sponsors. Thirty-

two sponsors and exhibitors joined us

for the event this year, including a

record four Gold Sponsors. Attendees

had the opportunity to visit each of their

exhibit booths during the Vendor Show

portion of the agenda and learn about

opportunities available to them.

Alliance Day is first and foremost a

celebration of regional collaboration. It’s

a time to recognize the dedication and

hard work of our member hospitals,

who impact communities across our

region each day.

It was another beautiful, sunny,

and mild day on Wrightsville

Beach for Alliance Day this year!

For the fourth year in a row,

members from our eleven

member hospitals and affiliates,

as well as community

partners and organizations,

came to the Holiday Inn

Resort—Wrightsville Beach

for our annual Alliance Day

celebration.

We had over 120 guests in

attendance, representing all

of our members across the region. In the

morning they heard updates about our

organization’s successes followed by

vendor show time with our sponsors, a

networking lunch, and then two keynote

speakers.

Tiffany Christensen and Dr. Wayne Sotile

delivered two fantastic messages that

day. Tiffany is a Performance

Improvement Specialist for the North

Carolina Quality Center. She drew upon

her extensive background and

experiences in health care, including as a

patient, to discuss the power of resiliency

and the importance of fortitude in the face

o f t r e m e n d o u s

challenges. Her inspiring

message of resilience

complemented nicely

with Dr. Sotile’s address

later in the afternoon.

Dr. Sotile, a national

speaker through The

Studer Group, has over thirty years of

experience as a clinical psychologist

studying high performers: how they think,

cope, manage relationships, and stay

resilient through changing times. He

offered constructive insights and

strategies for personal and professional

resilience. For healthcare administrators

and providers, it was an especially

Alliance Day 2016 Highlighted Regional Collaboration, Shared Successes, and Resilience through Change

2017 Annual CCHIE Town Hall Meeting to Feature Timely Topics, Updates

Thank You to our

Nursing Leadership

Conference 2016 Sponsors:

CCHIE’s Data Mart gears up for Population Health

Interoperability combined with population health delivers a one-two punch in the arena of advancing patient care. While health care organizations struggle with managing data to predict health trends and meet

MACRA and QPRS report ing requirements, a community-based health record spans gaps across providers and offers insights on data that otherwise would be unavailable to

an individual agency or ACO.

Since 2011, Coastal Connect Health Information Exchange (CCHIE) has been collecting patient information from area providers. Today this information continues to improve patient care, but now it can be used to view the community as a whole and isolate

trends.

CCHIE has spent the last few months putting in place and testing the architecture for a data mart. To populate the data mart, electronic

information from the HIE repositories is compounded and normalized into a HL7 v2 format. This process doesn’t change the data in any way, but it makes it more consistent for querying. From here, a secure connection is all that is needed to begin matching and sorting records in order to understand high-risk patient populations, improve value-based care and drive better

decisions.

Soon participants will have the option of being able to use the third party analytic tool of their choice to connect to their own data within the repository and pull out information around readmiss ions , ED u t i l i za t ion , Immunization and Cancer screenings or any multitude of other use cases. As usage of the data mart expands, CCHIE will continue to aid participants in developing complex queries and by sharing common queries which can be used to unlock

the potential of your data.

Thank You to our

Alliance Day 2016 Sponsors:

Well-Attended Residents Reception Event Highlighted Regional Career Opportunities

Twenty -e igh t Res idents attended Residents Reception in early October. These Residents are currently working and training at New Hanover Regional Medical

Center, and this annual event helps them learn about career opportunities available throughout the region at

CCHA member hospitals.

Several Residency programs were represented this year by attendees, including Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, OBGYN, Ophthalmology, Surgery and advanced-practice

nursing.

A big thank you to the local businesses that contributed to the CCHA Grand Prize, valued at $1,500 in donated

items.

Also, we would like to recognize and thank our event sponsor, Brent Eckhardt of SunTrust Mortgage. Brent is a long-time supporter of this event, and we truly appreciate his ongoing

partnership with this organization.

Overall, we had another successful Residents Reception, and we look forward to offering this great event

again next year!

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