| Meeting
Attendees |
Members
Not Present |
| Margaret Ezell |
Emily Graham |
| Chris Green |
Sunkiti
Ponkshe |
| Frank Noone
|
John Richards |
| Colleen Rooney |
Aaron Seib |
| Thao
Tran |
Elizabeth Smith |
| |
James Thur |
Agenda:
- Review goals for the Finance Committee
- Develop committee communication strategy
- Schedule meeting dates and meeting location
- Outline follow-up action items for next meeting
Discussion, Decisions, Assignments:
First agenda item. We reviewed the
goals for the Finance Committee listed in the agenda which included developing
our committee communication strategy, meeting dates and specifically:
“For December 1st, develop summary of startup funding possibilities;
develop three scenarios on self sustaining business models for RHIO NOVA that
map to the discussions that the Patient Committee is having on Year 2 and
3 scenarios. Include consideration of business models for patients,
hospitals, doctors, payors, etc.”
The next joint plenary session for all committees is Friday, December 1st.
We also reviewed the “Summary of Summit Breakout Sessions” power
point handout and discussed the specific slide reference to the Finance Committee.
“For Start-up Funding:
·
Sustainability is crucial
·
Startup grants
·
Long term sustainability
o
Money from payers – Reduction of duplicate services
o
Need to incentivize adopters/users
·
Payors & vendors (look at NJ
RHIO RFI)”
~ Colleen Rooney will locate this RFI and
distribute to the group for review
Second agenda item. Communication strategy
will be in person meetings and email correspondence. If need be, conference
calls will be added to our schedule.
·
Is everyone on the committee familiar with using Yahoo Groups?
If all committee members accept the invitation to join the NOVA RHIO Finance
Committee Yahoo Group, then one email address is available to use to communicate
to all 11 members. It is up to the individual to decide how often you
want to receive email from the Yahoo Group (receive an email each time one
is sent, daily digest of emails, weekly digest, etc.). In addition,
all correspondence sent to the email address is posted on the Yahoo Groups
page and any document can be uploaded or website posted for all to review.
This can be especially useful if we have large documents to share. Documents
can be uploaded to the Yahoo Groups page and then send an email to the email
address below with a note stating the document has been uploaded. All
Yahoo Group members will receive it. The Yahoo Group page offers our
committee a repository of all correspondence and documents we want to share
with each other.
·
The email address for our Yahoo Group is NOVARHIO_financecommittee@yahoogroups.com.
An invitation to join the Yahoo Groups page has been sent to all members of
our committee. Please sign up as soon as possible so the email address
is effective and everyone receives copies of communications sent out.
The initial meeting minutes, committee member list and the list of reports
and websites are posted on the Yahoo Groups page.
Third agenda item. We scheduled the
following meeting schedule from 7:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. every other week:
·
Friday, Oct. 20
·
Friday, Nov. 3
·
Friday, Nov. 17
·
If needed, we may add Friday, Nov 10 to the schedule
We discussed a potential meeting location as follows:
·
The committee can meet at a TBD meeting room at George Mason University
or Chris Green offered a meeting room at Arlington County Government offices.
·
If we continue meeting at GMU, there is no phone line and participation
via conference call is not an option. If we meet at Arlington County offices, we will have a conference
line available. Frank Noone and Colleen offered
use of 800# conference lines.
·
All committee members need to weigh in and let the group know
your meeting location preference or let us know if another meeting location
is an option. If a GMU meeting location is preferred, Colleen will schedule
a meeting room with Janet Palmisano.
Fourth agenda item. We discussed follow-up
actions for the next meeting on Oct 20:
- We need all committee members to do some research and come prepared with
specific ideas as to startup funding possibilities and thoughts as to a
sustainable business model for the October 20 meeting.
Additional items. The group
suggested that if we come across published reports or websites that could
be helpful for us to review, we will communicate them to the committee members.
Committee members suggested we review the HIT Dashboard on HIMSS website,
the Utah RHIO model and the AHIMA workbook on how to start a RHIO. These
and other reports and information can be found at:
