Over the decade long initiative, the work of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Project will focus on decreasing the leading causes of illness and death among New Hampshire citizens. We will do this through collaboration, evidence-based information, and sound policy recommendations to strengthen the public health system and will work towards increased health and well-being of all New Hampshire citizens.

In 2009, some of the NH Citizens Health Initiative’s most important work will be centered on the design and implementation of a payment system that reflects our public and personal health goals.  We believe that a thoughtful design, constructed by a multi-stakeholder team of NH healthcare leaders and done so in consideration of the best performing systems as well local system nuances, is critical in gaining consensus and endorsement by all affected constituents.

The NH Citizens Health Initiative Multi-Stakeholder Medical Home Pilot represents a collaboration among the Initiative  medical home workgroup, the Center for Medical Home Improvement and the four private NH Health Plans: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, CIGNA, Anthem, and MVP Healthcare as well as NH Medicaid. The goal of the pilot is to value, prescribe and reward medical care that is tightly coordinated and of superior quality and efficiency. The Initiative will convene and provide project management for the 2-year medical home pilot, with payment scheduled to begin on 06/01/2009. Facilitation of the project will have two foci, pilot operations and collaboration among participants selected for inclusion in the pilot. 

A final Strategic Plan for HIT/HIE  was issued to the Governor on January 1, 2009. The plan was the result of concerted effort by a broad range of stakeholders. In order for the recommendations of the group to come to fruition, there must be a leadership structure that will be the successor to the HIT and HIE Working Group. It is our intention to continue our effort at The Initiative to facilitate and staff the successor leadership structure.  

This Pillar work group has a draft work plan, with the intention of finalizing the scope and detailing the plan by the end of the first quarter.  For more information on our work plan of analytic efforts, reports and briefs, whose intended audience consists of policy makers, employers, brokers, hospitals, providers and carriers, click here.