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- The Mandate for Quality Improvement – Standardization of Quality
Measures to Further Transparency and Accountability
- Results from AHRQ’s Report on the Quality of Health Care and
initiatives to harmonize national quality measures
- Update on the allocation of $85 million for information
technology for patient safety
Carolyn M. Clancy, Ph.D., Director, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
- Successful Contracting and Incentives for Improved Performance
with Hospitals, Group Practices and Independent Physicians
- Implementation Solutions and Results from Financial Incentives
for Providers
- Outcome of Rewarding Results Programs – Impact of Financial
Incentives on Hospitals and Physician Groups (sponsored by the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- Bridges to Excellence – Purchser/Provider partnering (Partners
Community Healthcare, Inc., the Lahey Clinic and the Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital Medical Center and GE, Ford, UPS, Proctor &
Gamble, Verizon)
- Patient Safety Challenges for Providers – Implementation
Concerns
- Institute of Medicine’s Patient Safety Data Standards
- Public/private data standards
- Data interchange
- Implementing Systems to Manage Quality and Patient Safety
LeapFrog Group Initiatives
- Computerized physician order entry, barcoding, etc.
- New technologies needed to improve outcomes and reduce
administrative costs
- Medicare and Medicaid Pilot Study Results in Pay-for-Performance
- Public Reporting of Provider Quality Measures – Successful
Models for to Improve Performance
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