Quality Roadmap
Scope and Current Work
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Current Meetings
Date | Time | Location | Topic | Agenda | Minutes |
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2007.11.05 | 1000-1730 | Chicago | Profile Selection and other topics | ||
2007.11.06 | 8300-1730 | Chicago | Profile Selection and other topics |
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Priority:
Prerequisites: List of applicable standards Coordination: Other domains to coordinate efforts with. |
Strategy:
Year: Earliest Opportunity given prerequisites, priority and skills. |
Roadmap
Topic | Pri | Standards/Prerequesites | Coord | Strategy | Year |
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Peer Review
Peer review and feedback |
ACR RadPeer program
AMA/ABMS program using performance measures for peer review of physician hospital groups |
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Decision support for ordering and procedure approvals | Massachusetts program based on ACR appropriateness criteria (consult with Dr. Keith Dreyer/MGH)
Generate justification data when needed (through use of QED?) AQA principles for developing measures of appropriateness ACC/AHA Appropriateness Criteria, decision support tools |
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Retrospective review of outcomes based on utilization of evolving technologies | NOPR (PET registry) ACRIN/CMS/Brown Univ. | ||||
Radiation dose
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Real-time documentation of continuing education and certification (point-of-care CME) | ACCME standards for award of physician CME
ABMS MOC requirements Medbiquitous/SCORM |
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Patient assessment to prevent adverse events | |||||
Adverse event reporting
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Expected AHIC/ONC/HITSP Use Case on Adverse Events
Joint commission requirements (per state) CDC has voluntary and mandatory reporting for some diseases Care coordination efforts across disciplines - NQF, CMS, Joint Commission Adverse Event Reporting Structural measures |
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Measure Reporting
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AHIC/ONC/HITSP Use Case on Quality (including patient identity management)
Measures developers (eg, AMA/PCPI, NCQA, ACC/AHA, JCAHO), endorsers, testers and implementers (eg, NQF, AQA) Measuring health delivery disparities across demographic segments (eg, race, gender, socioeconomic status) - AHA Health Research and Educational Trust, HRSA Care coordination efforts across disciplines - NQF, CMS Structural measures State/provincial/regional quality measures |
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Data registries
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Disease management registries: STS, ACC NCDR, Tumor Registry, Trauma Registry, HDC Registry (HRSA) Immunization registries National Practitioner Database |
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Standardized reporting: develop standard formats for reports (eg, Echo, Cath Lab, Nuc Med) to ensure report has elements needed to collect quality data | |||||
Consumer aspects of quality reporting
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NQF Consumer Council AARP OASIS Data for Home Care (CMS) CMS Hospital Compare and Nursing Home Compare |
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Harmonization with other initiatives
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