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AHQA
2007 Annual Meeting/CONFERENCE TRACKS
Potential Conference Topics
Included below each topic heading are suggestions that provide direction
on the general scope of the session. Other ideas for session content
related to the topics are welcome.
Topic 1:
Nursing Homes
- Achieving
dramatic gains on publicly-reported clinical measures.
- Retaining
front-line staff.
- Techniques
for boosting staff and resident satisfaction.
- Engaging
nursing homes on health information technology (HIT).
- Engaging
nursing home leadership in quality
- Using
process-of-care data to improve quality.
Topic
2: Home Health
- Effective
approaches to reducing hospitalizations.
- Identifying
and disseminating best practices in home care.
- Making
the case for telehealth.
- Assessing
and improving a home care agency’s
organizational culture.
- Enhancing
performance on publicly-reported OASIS measures.
- Using
the media to motivate community partners to reduce hospitalizations.
Topic
3: Hospital
- Evaluating
the impact of improvement strategies.
- Engaging
hospital leadership to improve quality.
- Strategies
for improving CMS’ Appropriate
Care Measure.
- Working
with surgical teams on the Surgical Care Improvement Project measures.
- Strategies
to promote submission of accurate data.
- Making
the business case for health information technology in hospitals
using data.
- Leveraging
consumer and media interest in hospital data.
Topic
4: Rural/Critical Access Hospitals
- Making
the case for collecting and submitting quality data.
- Quality
improvement projects that boost performance on new rural measures.
- Engaging
rural hospital leadership.
- Creating
a culture of safety in rural hospitals.
- Creating
public demand for rural quality improvement.
Topic
5: Physician Office
- Effective
methods that get and keep physicians moving along the continuum of
health information technology adoption.
- Effective
tools and examples for care process and workflow redesign.
- Participation
and leadership in community-based health information exchange (HIE).
- Successes
and lessons learned in Doctor’s Office Quality Information
Technology (DOQ-IT) projects.
- Supporting
and creating incentives or pay-for-performance programs.
- Electronic
reporting of quality data.
- Examples
of quality improvement based on EMR adoption and use.
- Improving
quality and efficiency through pay for performance, HIT and HIE.
- Preparing
for the 9th Scope of Work.
Topic
6: Underserved Populations
- Making
the case for cultural competency.
- Health
information technology and physicians serving underserved populations.
- Successful
approaches to improving performance on statewide measures.
- Innovative
partnerships to improve care for underserved populations.
- Implementing
culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
- Community
outreach campaigns to educate minorities on quality care issues.
- Lessons
learned or innovative strategies to ensure disparities reduction
in pay-for-performance programs.
Topic
7: Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Quality Improvement
- QIO
projects addressing misuse, overuse and under-use of prescription
drugs.
- Accessing
and utilizing Medicare prescription drug claims data.
- Development
of prescription drug quality measures.
- Creating
and sustaining partnerships with drug plans, practitioners and providers.
- Medication
reconciliation and care transition.
Topic
8: Case Review/Hospital Payment Monitoring Program (HPMP)
- Innovations
in appeals, including BIPA and Grijalva.
- EMTALA
reviews.
- Beneficiary
complaint response program innovations.
- Overview
of HPMP projects.
- Payment
data analysis methodologies.
Topic
9: Finance and Human Resources
- Baldrige
Certification, ISO Certification, URAC Certification, etc.
- Models
for estimating project resource requirements.
- Cost
management for quality improvement.
- Corporate
compliance.
- Investments
in the customer service experience.
Topic
10: Communications and Beneficiary Outreach
- Effective
strategies for communicating with hospital, physician office, home
health agency and nursing home staff.
- Methods
for elevating the quality improvement agenda in the media.
- Measurable
results in innovative beneficiary education interventions.
- Successful
strategies for achieving “brand” recognition.
Topic
11: Analytic Methodologies
- Application
of analytic software.
- Innovative
analytic methods, risk adjustment, etc.
- Outcomes
assessment.
- Large-scale
data analysis.
Topic
12: Health Information Technology
- Case
studies of RHIOs or other community-wide IT projects with real impact.
- Studies
on the impact of the implementation of EHR or hospital IT systems.
- Real-life
lessons from the field on the implementation of HIT in ambulatory
or inpatient settings.
- Keeping
provider momentum – strategies
for making progress.
- Care
management process changes for the small physician office.
Topic
13: Measurement and Public Reporting
- Studies
of local public reporting efforts with measurable impact
- Successful
or innovative QIO measurement and provider reporting activities
that have resulted in behavior change and outcomes improvement.
- Examples
of physician-level performance measurement and public reporting.
- Provider
recognition programs.
- Update
on measure development and the NQF consensus process.
Topic
14: Pay for Performance
- Examples
of local pay for performance efforts involving the QIO.
- Examples
of how pay for performance impacts quality improvement.
- Examples
of meaningful partnerships in implementing pay for performance.
- Working
with local payors to develop incentives.
- Pay for
Performance results -- follow-up from programs that have a longer
track record.
- Making
the business case for pay for performance – real
examples of provider/practitioner benefit.
Topic
15: Leadership
- Innovative
or established practices that leadership or governance of health
care organizations have used for dramatic improvement.
- Innovative
QIO leadership strategies that have directly translated into health
care improvement.
- Successful
leadership activities in creating and sustaining meaningful partnerships
(coalitions, collaboratives, joint ventures, alliances) that have
measurable impact.
- Taking
the data and running with it – the
AHRQ State Snapshots and the QIOs.
- Leading
the development of PSOs in your state.
- Engaging
community leaders, state legislators, etc.
- Leading
to places your providers want to go – understanding
local priorities.
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