She stated that she would not, however, portray the problem as one of mismanagement of Managed Care Support Contracts. Ms. Storck added the biggest portion of the problem are negative Bid Price Adjustments. COL Chiang introduced Ms. Barbara Hoehn who had supervised the IM portfolio analysis. There were some gaps when mapping to the population health processes. These gaps appeared intentional.
Scheduling is an area for improvement with respect to an enterprise-wide solution.
From a Provision of Care perspective, the current portfolio supports the inpatient environment. She added that the current investment portfolio falls short of meeting the basic requirements in some areas and the future portfolio will still not satisfy all requirements. Mr. Reardon suggested using this analysis to examine the investment strategy to ensure resources were wisely spent to fill the gaps. Ms. Hoehn suggested that resources be expended on the deployment of CHCS II and to look at the best way to get a Clinical Data Repository deployed. She recommended resourcing those initiatives that accomplish strategic enterprises solutions.