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5 Report Back from Breakout Groups
Pages 53-58

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... ; and Steve Strauss, the deputy associate director of the Progressive Transportation Services Administration at DDOT. The second presentation, Efficient and Effective Provision of Mobility to Health Care, was given by Steve Yaffe, the transit services manager for Arlington County, Virginia.
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From page 54...
... and does not reflect any consensus among work shop participants or endorsement by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Data Proser reported that, in addition to hearing about the different models and innovations, much of the time in his group was spent discussing the importance of data for knowing who the patients/riders are and for demonstrating the value of transportation to health care outcomes.
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From page 55...
... To address the HIPAA barriers, there have been attempts to create central hubs for data sharing, collaboration, and coordination of services. Several participants emphasized the need for better data on the health care side as well as the need for greater consistency across the community health needs assessments.
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From page 56...
... Two main points emerged from the presentations, Guzzetti reported: the need to optimize appointment trip scheduling, and the importance of reliability. Scheduling Trips The first presentation described how geocoded addresses revealed that low-income populations are lacking health care access relative to the rest of the population.
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From page 57...
... Flora Castillo, the vice president of community and strategic engagement at UnitedHealthcare and a volunteer board member of New Jersey Transit, said that UnitedHealthcare is working to create innovative partnerships with the transportation sector to ensure that United is addressing the needs of members. Castillo referred participants to a recently released white paper by UnitedHealthcare in which a framework is proposed for measuring the quality of care delivered in a managed, long-term services and supports environment.1 Within those measures are several questions on transportation, she added.
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From page 58...
... A participant noted the potential of application programming interfaces and open-source systems using standardized data. An advantage of this collaborative approach is that an improvement made anywhere is shared with the community using that software.
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