Difference between revisions of "OregonHealthConsensus"

This is a brainstorming page for Health for Oregonians. Please feel free to contribute/edit!! --ShelleySchoepflinSanders 22:09, 2 July 2008 (PDT)

Vision and Purpose

Vision: Healthy Oregonians

Desired Outcome: A fully representative Oregon consensus that comprehensively addresses the health of Oregonians

Strategy: Create and moderate a website where interested citizens can productively contribute to the consensus whether they have 5 minutes or 5 hours a week.

The website will bootstrap consensus in stages. Each successive stage will build upon the preceding stage, increasing the scope of the document and the number of participants. Consensus during each stage is defined by 90% of all participants endorsing a document to which all have the opportunity to contribute.

Next Steps

• Get Pivotal Tracker going and invite Amy, Pete, and Angela
• Send note to Wiki folk about upcoming Aug Wiki Wed session
• Plan for Wiki Wed Aug and Sept

Contacts

• Amy Sample Ward ... non-profit tech, technology non-profits can adopt to do their work more effectively, especially using social media
• Pete Forsyth ... similar to Amy, background in advocacy and public policy ... also technology ... promising emergence in internets ... bring some of the good stuff to more traditional advocacy organizations
• Gerald Schoepflin ... rhumatology ... take care of patients one at a time ... served on state committees that do evidence-based recommendations ... thought about expanding reach of influence
• Angela Beane ... varied, art and most in business, mba right now, common thread of volunteering ... interested in the money and organizational aspects of health care ... also interested in technology too ... generalist point of view ... learning and advocacy
• Brandon Sanders . . . computer scientist and collaboration enthusiast. I like to work with people to help them create things, especially things they didn't think they could create.
• Shelley Sanders ... brand new internist ... work 3 days a week ... having baby ... spend time not working in hospital working on a project that would make a difference for large group of people
• Matt Webber
• Chuck Kilo

Ways to Contribute to Consensus

Health matters to all of us. Many of us want to contribute. Defined tasks will help us contribute effectively, whether we have 5 minutes or 5 hours to give.

• Facilitate
  • Share ... my story/values/needs, our story/values/needs, responding to questions, comments, and the document as it evolves
  • Listen ... hear the sharings of others
  • Coach ... help others improve their sharing/listening

• Write
  • Research ... collecting references to comments, papers, studies about a particular question or topic
  • Synthesize ... distill ideas
  • Edit ... craft the presentation of ideas
  • Coach ... help others improve their researching/synthesizing/editing

• Organize
  • Specify Tasks ... identify coaching opportunities and questions to share, research, and synthesize against
  • Prioritize Tasks
  • Coach ...

• Recruit
  • Viral outreach ... participants share with family, friends, colleagues, and customers
  • Media outreach ...
  • Coach ...

Archimedes Notes

7/8/08 Shelley's conversation with Matt Webber

2 yrs ago, AM tried to put legislation through. Senate Bill 27.

AARP wasn't jazzed b/c we were "stealing" Medicare dollars. There were also other dissidents.

Large public is not ready to have the conversation about healthcare in the way we want to have it.

We want to ask people "What do you want out of the health system" but they're not ready.

We realized instead of starting with legislation we should start with conversations to create a groudswell of interest.

So now we're trying to create a citizen committee to expose the flaws in the current system to create a ground swell of interest so that state or federal change actually will happen.

When Gov'r Kitzhaber created OHP, they broke federal law. It could work to do that again if we had a groundswell or "tension" where the people are kind of "demanding" change.

Ross Perot, Bill Clinton, George Bush Sr. all were asked to comment, which shows that local Oregon events can affect national policies.

Main goal right now is to educate the public. We've had one speaker's bureau training.

Next session we may or may not do a piece of legislation, b/c the presidential election will take a lot of energy/attention.

We do have principles and values -- they are in Senate Bill 329 - the Healthy Oregon Act. "our language" and "their bill."

The Oregon Health Fund Board (appointed by the state and headed by someone from the AFL/CIO) has just finished 13 community town halls around the state to develop 329 process. A lot of AM members are on these committees.

Matt's suggestion: Type a summary of this idea and let Matt present it to Julie, Rick, Liz (director), and Gov'r.

There's an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to guarantee "healthchare" (not "health") for Oregonians.

Names for the Website

• OregonHealthConsensus
• OregonHealthForum
• HealthForOregonians
• HealthyOregonians
• WholeOregon
• OregonThrives
• OregonConsensus

July 9 Meeting

Present: Amy, Pete, Jerry, Angela, Brandon, Shelley

The purpose of this meeting is to create version 0.1 of the following:

• vision ... improve health for oregonians?
• desired outcome ... a fully representative Oregon consensus that comprehensively addresses the health of Oregonians ... an accessible document that reflects the consensus of all Oregonians about their health? or a conversation about health? a fully representative conversation? fewer diabetics in 2020? more informed patients visiting the doctor? more preventative interventions, fewer acute healthcare visits? less helplessness? healthier according to standard measures (life expectancy)? spending less money on healthcare? spending healthcare dollars earlier in life? 1) educating ourselves 2) educating public/advocacy 3) generating legislation
• strategy ... create a website where interested citizen can productively contribute to the consensus whether they have 5 minutes or 5 hours a week
• next steps
  • Consensus on
  • RDI ... Rural Development Initiative
  • AARP ... American Association of Retired Persons
  • Lower income ... equity atlas ... measures indices of equity ... coalition for a livable future ... health disparities
  • Outside I-5 cooridor
  • Mechanism for participation needs to broader than the web
  • SeptemberWikiWednesday

Complete Steps

• Brainstorm with Amy, Pete, Angela, and Brandon at Shelley's house -- Wed July 9 at 7:30 pm. Dessert provided -- yum yum!
• Shelley coffee with Matt Th, July 10, 11:30 am Chance of Rain
• Create one page vision statement for Matt to share with Archimedes Movement

Pete's notes

People and lists to notify for Sept:

• Christina (doctor)
• Joe (doctor)
• Bus project
• A legislator or three: Mitch Greenlick? Ben Cannon? Wyden staff? Merkley or Smith campaign?
• Wendi