Potential Conference Topics
Included below each track heading are suggestions that provide direction
on the general scope of the session. Other ideas for session content
related to the topics are welcome.
Track
1: Nursing Homes
- Achieving dramatic gains on publicly-reported clinical measures.
- Retaining front-line staff.
- Techniques for boosting staff and resident satisfaction.
- Engaging nursing home leadership in quality.
- Using process-of-care data to improve quality.
- Engaging nursing homes on health information technology (HIT).
Track
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.
Track
3: Hospital
- Engaging hospital leadership to improve quality.
- Strategies
for improving CMS’ Appropriate Care Measure.
- Working with surgical teams on the new Surgical Complication Infection
Prevention measures.
- Successful strategies to promote hospital data collection, reporting
and validation.
- Making the business case for health information technology in hospitals.
- Leveraging consumer and media interest in hospital data.
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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.
Track
5: Physician Office
- Effective methods for moving physicians along the continuum of health
information technology.
- HIT adoption and effective use.
- Effective tools and examples for care process redesign.
- Innovative partnerships and strategies for HIT or health information
exchange (HIE).
- Strategies
for leveraging success and lessons learned in Doctor’s
Office Quality Information Technology (DOQ-IT) projects.
- Supporting and creating incentives or pay-for-performance programs
with Medicare Advantage plans.
- Achieving improvement on ambulatory statewide measures.
Track
6: Underserved Populations
- Making the case and educating physicians on 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.
Track
7: Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Quality Improvement
- 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 and providers.
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8: Case Review/Hospital Payment Monitoring Program (HPMP)
- Innovations in appeals, including BIPA and Grijalva.
- EMTALA reviews.
- Beneficiary complaint response program innovations.
- Results of special HPMP projects.
- Payment data analysis methodologies.
Track
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.
Track
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.
Track
11: Analytic Methodologies
- Application of analytic software.
- Innovative analytic methods, risk adjustment, etc.
- Outcomes assessment.
- Large-scale data analysis.
Track
12: QIO Corporate Information Systems & Technology
- Applications for e-commerce, content, services, and connectivity.
- Database and tracking system development.
- Development of electronic data collection and management tools.
- Planning for network security.
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for Submission
Abstracts
These presentations, generally scientific or analytic in nature, should
be results oriented. They should include very brief project
background info rmation, and focus on specific info rmation regarding
lessons learned, including applicability to other project activities
and organizations. Abstracts will be presented in rapid-fire succession,
with five to six presentations during a 60-minute session, allowing for
10-12 minutes per presentation. Six criteria are used to evaluate abstracts:
- Submission blinded: No identifying info rmation included in title
or text of submission, e.g., name of organization, state name, and
author info rmation.
- Clarity and organization: Submissions should present topics/ideas
in a logical, easy-to-follow format. Abstract titles should be brief,
clearly indicating the nature of the investigation. Text should be
proofread to ensure accuracy.
- Relevance of topic to discipline: Presentations should address the
immediate concerns of the discipline and advance the knowledge of attendees.
- Innovation and originality: Information should be new to the audience,
and offer functional solutions to real-life challenges. It is recommended
that submissions submitted previously not be presented or published
to ensure originality.
- Practicality and value: Demonstrate quantified improvement: outcomes,
lives saved, dollars saved, accidents prevented. Include successes,
failures, lessons learned, and practical strategies that
can be “taken home” and applied. Evaluate whether the measurable
improvement was worth the resources committed.
- Quality of data and methodology: Experimental and analytical methodologies
and data should be defensible. Research should be complete or nearly
complete.
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These presentations
provide attendees the opportunity for in-depth interaction and discussion
with experts and researchers, in full 60-minute concurrent sessions.
They should be workshop-style presentations that offer ample opportunity
for both dialogue and Q & A. Presentation
emphasis should focus on practical lessons learned and solutions that
attendees can adapt for use in their day-to-day work. Authors are encouraged
to consider the principles of adult learning when designing their proposals.
The lead panelist must submit a proposal that includes among other
requirements, a list of potential panelists (no more than four), background
info rmation, session objectives and description, and any funding assistance
required. Criteria 1-6 above are used to evaluate concurrent session
proposals. In addition, reviewers will be requested to provide unbiased
judgment on the potential for a successful presentation.
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Poster Presentations [PDF]
The Professional Poster Session is a dedicated opportunity for attendees
to network and interact with peers and presenters. The Poster Session
is an effective mechanism for disseminating both research findings and
project-specific info rmation. Criteria 1-5 above are used to evaluate
poster presentations. Posters will remain on view in the exhibit area
throughout scheduled exhibit hours. Those poster presentations that
are considered organizational promotion will not be accepted for presentation.
This determination is made at the discretion of the AHQA Program Planning
Committee. Authors of all accepted posters will be sent detailed
info rmation with their letters of acceptance. There will be a $25 fee
for each poster presentation accepted.
Abstract and Concurrent Session submissions not accepted for presentation
may be selected for presentation during the Professional Poster Session.
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Submission
Process
To be considered
for presentation, your submission must be received by August
3, 2005.
All abstract,
concurrent session and poster proposals must be submitted online – no
exceptions.
The online abstract management system can be accessed by visiting http://ams.cos.com/cgi-bin/login?institutionId=32944&meetingId=201 after May 31, 2005. Faxed or mailed submissions will not be
accepted.
All forms have been pre-formatted to assist you in your submission.
The abstract management system will include detailed instructions on
the process. We encourage you to use the abstract management system to
draft all submissions; this tool allows for collaborative online authoring.
The system
includes both a telephonic and online help desk for questions regarding
the process. The help desk is open Monday – Friday, 8:30
am – 5:00 pm EST. The site contains several online tools to assist
you.
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Presenter
Info
All presenters are required to pay meeting registration
fees and all other expenses involved with
attending the 2006 Annual Meeting from February 22 – 24, 2006.
Only select concurrent session proposals will be reviewed and considered
for funding requests.
- ALL presenters must provide an electronic copy of their presentation
and any handouts a minimum of 45 days before the conference, to allow
time for reproduction and inclusion in the conference binder. If materials
are not received by the deadline stipulated, the presentation may be
cancelled. Presenters should also bring a copy of their presentation
on USB key or CD to the conference.
- Each presenter is required to complete and return all forms required
for AHQA and Continuing Medical Education purposes by the dates stipulated,
including a disclosure form indicating any financial arrangement or
affiliation with any organizations that may have a direct interest
in the subject matter of the presentation.
- Presenters may not use their conference presentations to market
products or services; presentations constituting promotion
and advertising are prohibited.
- Presenters must adhere to established time limits.
Deadline: Submissions
must be received online no later than August 3, 2005.
Authors will be notified of results in October 2005.
Questions
QUESTIONS? For
more info rmation regarding the Call for Submissions process or the
2006 Annual Conference, contact Amanda Scott , Manager, Membership
and Administration, at (202) 331-5790, Extension 1567 or at ascott@ahqa.org.
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