Questions:
What does the WorldDoc Foundation do?

How is the WorldDoc Foundation supported?

What is sustainable health care?

Why should my community be concerned with sustainable health care?

On what bases does the WorldDoc Foundation identify community projects for involvement?

What benefits does the WorldDoc Foundation bring to community partners?

What is CHI5?

What’s involved in partnership agreements with the WorldDoc Foundation?

How do I get started as a partner with the WorldDoc Foundation?

Q: What does the WorldDoc Foundation do?
A:The Mission of the WorldDoc Charitable, Education and Research Foundation is to improve health outcomes and reduce societal health care costs by changing the way uninsured and vulnerable populations experience health care in their communities. In both consultative partner and vendor roles, the WorldDoc Foundation supports community health collaborations in information exchange strategies that include a consumer-centric focus, based on each community’s objectives for sustainable health care change.

Q: How is the WorldDoc Foundation Supported?
A: The core technologies behind the consumer tools are developed and supported by WorldDoc, Inc. WorldDoc, Inc. also provides operating assistance for the Foundation that enables the Foundation to license WorldDoc tools for use by community collaborations at rates significantly below commercial license fees. Consulting fees are charged as negotiated to cover staff time and out of pocket costs. Wherever possible, RFP submissions and third party grants are leveraged into community business models to include funding for the WorldDoc Foundation involvement.

Q: What is sustainable health care?
A: The WorldDoc Foundation’s view is that each community must answer this question for itself.

Building sustainable health care includes a valid business assessment of how chronic disease, prevention and wellness and access for the uninsured are impacting the community infrastructure for providing affordable and quality care, based on needs of residents. It also includes defining expectations of individual responsibility to manage one’s health more proactively along with the provision of tools, systems and services to support individual health care choices within the community. Residential demographics, individual predispositions, technological efficiencies and community readiness to support citizen needs are all part of sustainable health care.

The WorldDoc Foundation helps communities define the impact of sustainable health care and engage collaborative partners in dialogue to identify solutions that address community health challenges and opportunities.

Q: Why should my community be concerned with sustainable health care?
A: The themes for sustainable health care impact the bottom-line costs and resources for providers, payers and consumers of health services in every community. All people have health experiences that affect themselves, friends and loved ones. How they collectively manage their health issues with information, systems and resources can make or break whether a hospital can continue to offer certain services to underserved people or a physician practice closes its doors. The community shapes and shares in the cost of residential health care through many means. Ultimately, every person wants to have reliable access on demand at an affordable cost. This is why the WorldDoc Foundation premise is:

Every individual has the power to transform health care...
Every community has the power to transform individuals.

Q: On what bases does the WorldDoc Foundation identify community projects for involvement?
A: The Foundation seeks multi-partner and individual organization initiatives that are new, stalled or in progress to implement interoperable and interactive health information that better serves individuals, including but not limited to:

• Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs)
• Hospitals seeking ways to build value through consumer engagement
• Non-profit organizations pursuing “medical homes” for uninsured or needed intermediary training to engage vulnerable populations
• Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
• Specialized non-profits looking for tools to offer clients interactive health communications and tracking for chronic disease, wellness and prevention
• Organizing a community “portal” to provide health management tools for uninsured and at-risk populations
• Organizations seeking programs to support senior health initiatives
• Colleges and universities exploring student health management options

Q: What benefits does the WorldDoc Foundation bring to community partners?
A: Many communities, large and small - urban and rural, are confronting health access and affordability issues in a variety of ways. For those communities who have an active collaboration and plan in place, the WorldDoc Foundation may be able to provide you with consumer engagement tools and solutions that fit into your current plans. For those communities getting organized, we can help you assess the issues, build consensus, engage community partners, find financial and other resources needed to support the coalition, create an organizational structure and process, and develop a business plan.

The benefits we bring to the table include:

• the ability to move from need to a consensus solution-set in a thoughtful and timely manner;
• the ability to leverage experiences and fresh perspectives to move through the planning stages to get action started;
• the ability to engage community members using proven consumer tools while simultaneously creating opportunities for sustaining the initiative.

What is CHI5?
A: CHI5, or Community Health Impact to the 5th power, is the WorldDoc Foundation branding for outcomes that can occur when critical community variables converge on behalf of sustainable health care. CHI5 principles include:

Individual
Every individual has a personal health history that includes heredity, health profile, experiences, variable resources and a personal health support network. All of these factors influence consumer attitudes and behaviors toward their own health responsibility. Helping individuals to become more informed and engaged consumers of health will lead to sustainable transformation of health care at community and national levels.

Information
Accurate, timely and trustworthy health information is imperative to ensure continuity of care and reinforces consumer trust in the process. Furthermore, information can empower patients to become health consumers prepared to fully participate in a full range of health decisions from consent, to lifestyle behaviors to evaluating and selecting treatment options and providers.

Interaction
A stable community infrastructure for sustainable health care requires active collaboration from every entity involved in the area’s business of health care. Productive interaction among all stakeholders results in a shared business plan that reflects the commitment to do the right things for the community and to do them well, beyond what any individual entity could accomplish on its own.

Interoperability
The ability to seamlessly move information among providers and consumers to support healthy outcomes, avoid costly duplications of effort and minimize medical errors defines the technical challenges of building sustainable community collaborations. It also creates scorecards to measure the impact on individuals, target populations and the success of the collaboration.

Infusion
Most existing community partnerships can benefit from an infusion of energy, dialogue, new players and ideas. Such infusion may come from new resources, new technologies or structures; it almost always includes some new leadership that embraces the excitement of forward thinking.

Q: What’s involved in partnership agreements with the WorldDoc Foundation?
A: The WorldDoc Foundation is interested in partnerships at several levels. If your community has a plan and needs some specific help or service we can provide, we would be glad to submit a proposal after assessing your needs and goals. On the other hand, if your community is just starting or needs a re-start to build a community health coalition, we can provide you with a community assessment and recommend a detailed course of action for your community to follow. Either way we invest our time to understand your needs and then provide you with a detailed proposal for your consideration and negotiation.

Q: How do I get started as a partner with the WorldDoc Foundation?
A: The best way start is to schedule a time to share your story with us. Let’s learn together.