A Collaborative Data Project

A Data Project - as Gil takes it an organizational step forward for the next dinner meeting - creating a more sophisticated information gathering process - individual sub-project subject reports combined into overall report to the community (e-mail, website, print, CD) - use in answering important public policy questions, use in health plan operations and renewal negotiations, use in provider reimbursement negotiations - information for the community (perhaps also in report card form) - A participant said: "raise foundation dollars to figure how better to 'do it right' in Sonoma County".

Data Project discussion also targeted funding for the following calculations:

1. A statewide search for exemplary programs of communities working on their health care crises - model case study examples of what others have done and are doing and planning
2. Set up community model data/information gathering device - which generates broader information and analysis for the community and the community's health care planners
3. Develop foundation-funded access to an independent medical actuary's interpretation of enhanced local data findings - to develop into challenges on the line-by-line renewal calculations of the health plans - potentially significant findings and savings
4. Estimate net calculations for including all Sonoma County residents in a plan for health care service - calculating access for all
5. Estimate calculations for potential re-assessment of reimbursement rate levels for Sonoma County clinics and small hospitals
6. Explore costs/savings/values potential through developing a virtual single payor health plan (or plans) model
7. Since diabetes rates here are 15% higher than state average, study data (and the literature) for priority suggestions for most effective actions
8. Since the County has a much higher than average percentage of aged residents, increase the focus on healthy living at every age; increase analysis of quality and quantity of service functions
9. Since more County residents than average in California have a higher than average HIV-AIDS incidence in their communities, consider how to better support the existing model programs.
10. Explore negotiations to increase stability of primary care community - Explore direct negotiations between purchasers and providers
11. Could the state and federal governments be convinced to consider re-insuring (or re-re-insuring) potential catastrophic local costs?
12. Calculate how a homeless clinic can be funded at this point?