FinnWell pilots and Bay area

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FinnWell pilot projects: San Francisco Bay area as a focus Riku Mäkelä, Tekes San Jose 18.3.2005 riku.makela@tekes.fi www.tekes.fi/ohjelmat/finnwell

Main goals for FinnWell in San Francisco Bay: 

Main goals for FinnWell in San Francisco Bay Kaiser Research UCSF & HealthTech Center UC Berkeley

Health Technology Center: 

Health Technology Center Health Technology Center, HealthTech, was founded in 2000 by senior healthcare executives A non-profit research organization Provider of in-depth, objective information about emerging healthcare technologies HealthTech forecasts impact of technologies on clinical outcomes, financial performance, facility design, and market strategies Collaborative partnership of over 45 organizations, including health delivery systems and health plans Mission To create a trusted source of objective, expert and useful information about the future of healthcare technologies FinnWell goals Finns will use expert information provided by HealthTech Finns will attend HealthTech events Finns will have a physical presence in Health Tech office and chosen projects

Example: HealthTech’s reports: 

Example: HealthTech’s reports The Future of Wireless in Healthcare, Technology Forecast Report tm Sept 2004, 50 pages Workforce/Beyond 5 years: ’ It is unlikely that wireless devices will replace desktops for large volume activities and for display of diagnostic quality images. The blending of the two modalities will provide the most cost- effective workforce support over the next 3+ years.’

Kaiser Permanente: 

Kaiser Permanente The largest HMO in U.S. integrated health care organization founded in 1945 nonprofit health plan headquarters in Oakland, California Membership members in nine states and Washington, D.C. 8.2 million voluntarily enrolled members as of December 2003 California: 6,218,714 / Colorado: 409,141 / Hawaii: 235,192 … most members join through their employers, who pay part or all of the monthly dues

Kaiser Permanente / Kaiser Research: 

Kaiser Permanente / Kaiser Research FinnWell’s friends at UC Berkeley and Kaiser Research are starting a research project about EHR Study of the effects of Kaiser wide deployment of Epicare’s EHR system EPIC The implementation project: 8 million patients into the system, total costs USD 2 billion Kaiser organizes the first ever three day training seminar for international participants in April about what they are and what they do FinnWell goals Learn about an implementation of interoperable EHR  benchmarking and learning from each others  Finnish project or organization collaborates with the study about Kaiser’s EHR implementation Link several Finnish organizations to Kaiser  Finnish participants in Kaiser’s training April 11th-13th

Next steps: 

Next steps Health Technology Center Get acceess to HealthTech services: Sign in to ’Finns for HealthTech’ list for access rights to HealthTech’s web site, events and other services  Send email to FinnWell team Send a 1-12 months visitor to HealthTech: Talk with FinnWell team about the interest  Include this to projects plans of an existing or future project Kaiser Permanente Get an overview of Kaiser Permanente: Participate in Kaiser’s three day seminar about what they are and what they do  Sign in and go to Oakland for April 11th-13th Collaborate with the study about EHR implementations: Contact FinnWell team

More information: 

More information FinnWell team, about SF Bay area contacts and links: Riku.makela@tekes.fi FinnWell project ideas: Kalevi.virta@navicre.com funding and projects: Teija.palko@tekes.fi, pentti.nummi@tekes.fi Health Technology Center: www.healthtech.org Kaiser’s training session: https://programs.regweb.com/kaiser/KPInternational If you don’t know how to proceed, contact Kalevi Virta or Riku Mäkelä