The 4-Phase Approach

OHN’s direct and indirect role in helping support and built-out the next generation of health care delivery begins with connecting all providers who play a role in the delivery of health care through a reliable, scalable and trusted state and inevitably national health care network. This health care highway is a means by which, this new health care delivery model will be deployed, experienced, measured, supported and funded for generations to come.

Beyond the quest to increase membership on the network that supports value, viability and long-term sustainability for the organization, OHN will selectively expand or modify its expertise and service offering in the appropriate 12 health IT best practice areas based upon two factors:

1. What we learn from directly from our participants as to what the resources/expertise gaps are that inhibit their full use and benefit of the network. In doing so, we strive to determine if it makes sense for OHN to fulfill it directly, indirectly or a variation of both
2. The availability, or lack thereof, of existing statewide resources to supply these services and resources (other government, non-profit or private sector solution providers)

In a broader context, OHN has identified four business model phases required to effectively transition from an organization that purely deploys a health care network, to a key player in defining future expanded roles and service offerings that support the gradual and systematic use and adoption of the network at the national level.