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Innovator Interview: Terrina Thomas

Innovator: Terrina Thomas, MS, CHESPosition: Director, Health and Preventive Services, Sentara HealthcareVHIN: As the winner of our Game-Changer Award in Employee Health, you know a little bit about how employers, healthcare providers, and health plans, can work together to improve population health! What are some “lessons learned” from your experience implementing Mission: Health?As you can […]

Deciding whether to adopt an innovation

by Stephen Horan, PhDShould we adopt the patient centered medical home? Should we adopt employee incentives for wellness? Should we adopt the latest evidence-based guidelines on community cancer screening? Each of these questions involves a decision about whether to adopt an innovation. How we make these decisions can have a profound impact on whether and […]

Innovator Interview: Tom Parry, PhD

Innovator: Tom Parry, PhDPosition: President & CEO, Integrated Benefits InstituteVHIN: IBI has been generating and disseminating research on employee health and productivity for more than 15 years. Based on your experience, what are the most important things employers should know about the relationships between employee health, productivity, and business performance?TP: Employers should understand that research […]

Innovator Interview: Dr. Richard Lindsay & Gordon Walker

Innovators: Dr. Richard Lindsay & Gordon WalkerPosition: Project Consultants, Institute for Innovations in Caregiving VHIN: In your experience, what are the most common challenges family caregivers face? What work is the Institute for Innovations In Caregiving project doing to help alleviate these challenges? LINDSAY: Caregiver health will become an even more critical issue because the demographic data […]

Innovator Interview: David Coe

Innovator Name: David CoePosition: Executive Director, Colonial Behavioral HealthVHIN: What are some of the most promising approaches to the integration of behavioral health and primary care?I go straight to the concept of integrated care coordination. A particular strength of the behavioral health field is an ability to assist patients through the maze of services, providers, […]

Innovator Interview: Secretary William A. Hazel, Jr, MD

Innovator Name: William A. Hazel, Jr., MDPosition: Secretary of Health and Human Resources, Commonwealth of VirginiaVHIN: Considering the delivery system changes underway and the move towards more team-based, coordinated, and integrated care, what should Virginia’s healthcare workforce look like over the next 5-10 years?Hazel: Due to the long lead time and expense of training health […]

Innovator Interview: Saria Saccocio, MD

Innovator Name: Saria Saccocio, MD, MHAPosition: Chief Medical Officer, Danville Regional Medical CenterVHIN: What do you think are the biggest opportunities for employers, health care providers, and health plans, to work together to improve population health?SS: Vulnerability will be crucial to creating and sustaining an impact on population health. Without the ability to expose our […]

Innovator Interview: Chas Roades

Innovator Name: Chas RoadesPosition: Chief Research Officer, The Advisory Board Company VHIN: What do you think are the biggest opportunities for employers, health care providers, and health plans, to work together to improve population health?CR: The biggest opportunity for collaboration is the overall shift of the industry toward a value orientation. The faster employers, insurers and […]

Innovation Network Members focusing on Patient-Centered Care

This month we are kicking off our Innovation Focus series on the Virginia Health Innovation Network. What does this mean exactly? Every other month we’ll be highlighting a particular health innovation topic and asking Network members to share their ideas, perspectives, and experiences on that topic through a brief member survey. The following month, we’ll share […]

The Launch of the Virginia Health Innovation Network

On June 6, 2013, VCHI staff Beth Bortz and Ashley Cunningham debuted the Innovation Network to nearly 700 attendees at the Virginia Chamber’s third annual Health Care Conference. View the introductory presentation below. To Join the Innovation Network, visit: InnovateVirginia.org