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Our Health Plan: Community Governed Healthcare That Works Kindle Edition

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Just when you thought there was no cure for an ailing healthcare system, Our Health Plan will change your mind entirely. Chronicling the journey of a single community through the labyrinth of local healthcare in its efforts to effect change, proponents focus on the most economically disadvantaged and vulnerable-the Medicaid population, as well as reaching out to the commercially insured, creating a revolutionary Coordinated Care Organization, or CCO, in the process. Harnessing the power of its doctors, hospitals, dentists, psychologists, addiction counselors, paramedics, educators, and other integral healthcare forces, the medical community learns to work as a cohesive unit. Results include vastly improved care, reduced costs, favorable relationships and communication among providers, and patients with a decisive voice in a totally reimagined healthcare system.

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Dr. Jim Rickards is a healthcare transformer who happens to be a radiologist. Currently, he is the Senior Medical Director for Population Health for Moda Health. Before this, he served as the Chief Medical Officer for the Oregon Health Authority which serves approximately 1.1 million individuals with Medicaid benefits. In this capacity, he oversees Oregon's health evidence review commission, pharmacy and therapeutics committee, Transformation Center and clinical leadership.

Prior to joining the Oregon Health Authority, he helped form the Yamhill Community Care Organization, a community-governed health care plan serving individuals with Medicaid benefits. He served as this organization's Health Strategy Officer working to align the mission and vision of the organization with the resources and energy of the community.

In addition to an MD degree from Indiana University, he holds a Healthcare Focused MBA from Oregon Health Science University/Portland State University. He completed residency and fellowship training in radiology in Chicago at Cook County Hospital and Rush University Hospital respectively.

Just as he sees opportunities to improve individual-level health in the shadows of the x-rays and CAT scans he interprets, he sees an opportunity to improve population health in the data and policy options available both on a community and national level.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B074FRWNRR
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Morgan James Publishing (August 1, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 1, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4227 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 183 pages

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Dr. Jim Rickards MD, MBA, is a board certified physician, who believes our health results from what happens in both the clinic and the community. As most of our lives are spent outside the hospital or doctor's office, he feels this is where we need to focus our efforts on improving health and lowering health care costs. Dr. Rickards spent the early part of his career in a dark room as a radiologist talking to him self while interpreting medical imaging studies such as CAT scans and MRI's. Over the course of his career, he looked for ways to move beyond helping individual patients to improve the health of populations and communities. As a result, he helped start a community governed health care plan in which providers and patients govern the use and development of healthcare resources. He also helped leverage technology to increase access and quality of care with the start of a teledermatology program. Dr. Rickards has also helped develop and guide health policy and legislation at the state level during his time as the Chief Medical Officer for the Oregon Health Authority. Currently, Dr. Rickards is working to integrate value based payment models and population health strategies for commercial insurance, Medicare and Medicaid populations.