Three drivers of transformation

Our approach centers on three drivers of transformation. Depending on your needs, we apply these separately or in combination for the greatest impact.

Impact Analysis

Improvement projects, whether large or small, start with a hypothesis that a new approach will lead to different outcomes. Our Impact Analysis services enable you to clarify your hypothesis, align your effort with your environment, and create a framework to monitor outcomes over time to understand and adapt to changing circumstances.

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Stakeholder Collaboration

Our Stakeholder Collaboration services apply human-centered design and quality improvement methodology to align community needs for shared value and positive change.

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Systems Implementation

Our Systems Implementation services support organizations and communities to implement new workflows, connect data processes, and align policy frameworks for lasting impact.

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Working with Intrepid Ascent has helped us drive our innovative data infrastructure projects forward more rapidly, and in a focused and effective manner. Their interdisciplinary teams are incredibly supportive and provide thoughtful, responsive, and high-quality expertise in a variety of subject matter areas, supporting the transformation of our community’s care delivery systems.

Emily Q. Chung, MPH, MCHES
Public Health Division Director, County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency, California

Our Services at Work

Policy Spotlight: DxF Services

To promote effective, whole person care, California has launched the Data Exchange Framework (DxF), which sets out guidelines to facilitate the secure and appropriate exchange of health and social services information. Intrepid Ascent is serving as a key thought leader for the DxF, providing organizations with webinars, one-on-one strategic coaching sessions, readiness assessments, and other support focused on the DxF and its implications on their work.

PATH Technical Assistance Marketplace

Intrepid Ascent is honored to have been selected by the Department of Health Care Services as a CalAIM PATH vendor. Available to providers, community-based organizations, counties, and other entities implementing Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports, the TA Marketplace is a virtual, one-stop-shop website where entities can access resources and technical assistance designed to build knowledge and capacity, implement systems and tools, advance health equity, and support cross-sector partnerships.

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Active PATH collaborative counties

We are engaged with regional stakeholders in California to further the Department of Health Care Services’ CalAIM PATH Collaborative Planning Implementation Initiative. The community-wide goal is to support implementation of Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports by engaging with local entities to discuss how PATH and other CalAIM funding initiatives may be used to address gaps identified in MCP Needs Assessments and Gap Filling Plans.

Intrepid PATH CPI Home Page

Click on the active counties below to learn more about the resources, teams, and upcoming meetings for each PATH Collaborative program:

Contra Costa County
San Diego County

Not participating in a PATH CPI Collaborative? Click HERE to join.

Evolving Medicaid for whole person care

States around the country are experimenting with approaches to whole person care that serves the needs of Medicaid members. One aspect of Intrepid Ascent’s work in California involves managing the implementation of the Behavioral Health Quality Improvement Program with Merced, Santa Cruz, and Stanislaus counties; this includes the management of counties’ health information exchange onboarding and technology implementation, vendor management, data interoperability, and data governance solutions.

In addition, we’re facilitating Collaborative Planning and Implementation groups in Contra Costa and San Diego counties that support the redesign of the health and social service system to better meet the needs of Medicaid members. This involves helping health and social service organizations overcome systemic issues while creating a more holistic, coordinated system of care.

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Connecting communities to address social determinants of health

Intrepid Ascent supported the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island (HWCLI) with its approach for connecting community-based organizations to address social determinants of health during New York’s Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) effort. Our contributions focused on understanding the collaboration needs of community-based organizations, mapping these to technology and governance options, designing a stakeholder engagement plan to facilitate change, and defining impact goals to gauge project success. This work led to the procurement and implementation of a social service referral platform in the social service spectrum of care. Intrepid Ascent is now building on this effort to support HWCLI in its goal of serving as a Social Care Network through New York’s next 1115 Medicaid waiver.

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Surveying California’s health network environment

The California Health Care Foundation
August 2021

In a 2021 report published by the California Health Care Foundation, several Intrepid Ascent thought leaders wrote about regional health information exchange (HIE) activity in California along with Jill Yegian, Ph.D., principal of Yegian Health Insights. The report highlights four different HIE types, including those that contain EHR-centered clinical data, health information organization data, specialized data, and whole person data. The co-authors included publicly available information and the insights of 20 statewide and regional leaders in Los Angeles County, Fresno County and its environs, the Sacramento metropolitan area, and Humboldt County.

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Highlighting California’s health network types

The California Health Care Foundation
August 2021

This 2021 issue brief written by Mark Elson, Ph.D., CEO of Intrepid Ascent, and published by the California Health Care Foundation provides an overview of health information exchange network types and characteristics in California. The four network types include EHR-centered clinical data exchange, health information organization–centered clinical data exchange, specialized clinical data exchange networks, and whole person data exchange networks. The report addresses the overlapping nature of these networks while observing that — absent further progress and alignment — these networks leave significant gaps that contribute to fragmented services for most Californians.

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