State of Healthcare and Health IT in GeorgiaJimmy Lewis, CEO HomeTown Health, LLC•Describe current state Medicaid budget and how it impacts rural hospitals•Repeat need for IT training and strategic planning•Describe interhospital negotiation and collaboration and recognize the purpose of leveraging intellectual capital and price negotiation•What do I Know about IT? Very little except-----

First major inventory control system – Industrial Engineer who helped designFairchild Burns – GE MIMS installation – One of five Directors in chargeCarolina International Storage – In Charge of Class A Closed Loop DRPCross Equipment - Class A Closed Loop MRP – in Charge of – ownerHealth Care EHR Consultation

Medicaid Budget2013 Amend – 370 million2014 Amended - $414 millionProvider Fee - $600 millionNo Medicaid rate cuts so will be agency and program,

and DSH Loss - $500 million nationwide – Ga. gets $410

million and could lose a lot of itHospitals totally subsidy dependent

It’s all about jobs then patient care$370 million = 3600 jobs in health care are at stake

Need for IT Training and strategic PlanningIt’s the new heart for a hospital

EHRCPOEClose Loop Integration

Industry its call Class Closed MRPCritical Pathways versus Indented Bill Of Material ( MFG Industry Jargon)It requires experience to come into the fieldIt requires ongoing education to stay in the field

HomeTown Health UniversityMicrosoft packages such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint (why PowerPoint –it's the best picture communicatorMaximize Time - GoToMeeting – Webx Don’t hoard the knowledge – share it openly

Strategic PlanningNew day SP – is practical – real – understandable – based on facts

Interhospital NegotiationHomeTown – InterqualUser Group exchangeGoToMeeting

What does it take to succeed?Understanding of Patterns and trendsSolving Complex ProblemsVersatilistIts knowledge has to viewed as single pot

of knowledge from which many people draw

New Terms – Data mining, Big Data, the cloud, fuzzy logic, HER, Web based, usage– e.g. Target – Habits – World Is Flat

A Pot of Knowledge