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OCTOBER 2017
NEWSLETTER
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In This Edition:
- KHC Announcement
- KHC Blog Posts, Industry
News, In the Community
- KHC Member Spotlight -
Robert Steiner, MD
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Call for Applications - KY Performance Measures
Alignment Committee
We are now taking applications
to participate on the PMAC committee. Kentucky PMAC will oversee the
measurement alignment work and determine the final core measurement
set...more
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BLOG POSTS
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What
is Your Organization Doing to Address the Opioid Crisis?
It’s no secret that this is a
priority in our state and in Southern Indiana, so we are excited
to team up with some of the best minds in the country to produce
a playbook that addresses the crisis from many angles...more
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Harold Miller, MD
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The
Rising Cost of Healthcare: Message from the National
Affordability Summit
Healthcare leaders and policy experts gathered in Washington,
D.C., to discuss the rising cost of healthcare and its growing
threat for patients, employers, government, and the U.S.
economy...more
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Measure of the Month: Breast Cancer
Screening
It's that time of year again, when we see more pink than usual -
everywhere from consumer products like cereal boxes to athlete's
gloves and shoes on the football field. October is breast cancer
awareness month...more
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High
School Students Found Action Group to Improve KY Youth Mental
Health
I’m Allison Tu, a junior at duPont Manual High School in
Louisville, and I recently founded an action group called the
Student Alliance for Mental Health Innovation and Action, or
StAMINA for short. StAMINA is student-driven group on a mission
to change the state of student mental health in Kentucky...more
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
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Robert William Prasaad Steiner, MD, MPH,
PhD, FAAFP, DABPM
Professor, Health Management and Systems Sciences, UofL School of Public Health and
Information Sciences
KHC Member: 10 years
Teach MPH and PhD
students
What are you currently working on that you are
most excited about? How do you think it will drive improvements to
health and healthcare in the community?
Health is more than being free from disease.
There are social and cultural aspects of health that include
dimensions of well-being. Health is a resource to enable people to
participate in normal social roles within a context of
relationships with family, friends, neighbors and society. Good
health may enable a better quality of life.
Improving health is one of the three main priorities of
the Triple Aim. What are the best strategies for improving health
in our community?
Improving health means that a society must attend to factors other
than diseases and negativity. The biomedical model is about bodies
and parts, practitioners of the bio-psycho-social model care for
patients in the context of Family, and Population Health proposes a
socio-ecologic model to foster networks of relationships as
resources to remodel the very fabric of society.
Why do you and your organization belong to the
KHC? What do you find most valuable as a member?
KHC represents a fractal of the stakeholders of
our local health care systems. Discussions among members provide
opportunities for mutual understanding and means to benefit
communities. Including new metrics, such as quality of life
assessments and life satisfaction ratings - at homes, work sites,
schools, and recreational sites, will provide new perspectives to
favor positive health.
How do you see the KHC evolving in the future?
Less attention to the payment models for medical care, and more
attention to the basic social needs of people, like food, housing,
education, qualities of relationships, etc.
What are you passionate about?
I love to learn. There is a humbling quality to
learning. All dimensions within the microcosm and macrocosm,
including form, formless, and inconceivable, are within our
precious human experience. I experience these qualities as Beauty
and Awe.
What is your favorite quote?
“The dream of reason
did not take power into account.”
Opening line to Paul Starr’s classic text, The Social
Transformation of American Medicine, 1988 Basic Books, NY
To view this member
spotlight online, click
here.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Dec 5, 2017
Health
Benefit Literacy- December Forum
Register
here.
March 14, 2018
KHC
Annual Conference
Connecting Mental and Physical Health: Successful Models
of Integrated Care
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ABOUT US
The KHC brings together healthcare purchasers, providers, payers,
and consumers to solve complex healthcare issues facing our
community.
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the KHC
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NATIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
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INDUSTRY NEWS
U.S.
Health Care Reform Can't Wait for Quality Measures to be Perfect
Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement and the
Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative Announce
Strategic Partnership
The
Next Chapter in Transparency: Maryland's Wear the Cost
The
Problem is the Prices
While
Premiums Soar Under Obamacare, Costs of Employer-Based Plans Are
Stable
Digital
War on Drugs: App Shows Opioid Overdoses Instantaneously
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NOTABLE EVENTS
Data! Fostering Health Innovation in Kentucky
and Ohio, Monday, October 23, 2017, 9:30
a.m. - 4:00 p.m...more
CEO Roundtable: Prevent Diabetes
Thursday, November 2, 2017, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m...more
Kentucky Statewide
Diabetes Symposium
Friday, November 3, 2017, 7:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m...more
2017 Annual Depression
Conference: Searching for Solutions: Advances in the Treatment of
Mood and Personality Disorders - November
10, 2017...more
National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions 2017
Annual Conference, November
13-15, 2017...more
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Our Mission:
The mission of the KHC is to coordinate action-oriented efforts
to mobilize the community to improve health and well-being. The KHC
works collaboratively to improve access to high quality care and drive
cost-efficient solutions, enhancing the economic competitiveness of the
region.
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