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Leadership by Example

Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Health Care Quality

By: Institute of Medicine,Committee on Enhancing Federal Healthcare Quality Programs

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Leadership by Example

Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Health Care Quality

By: Institute of Medicine,Committee on Enhancing Federal Healthcare Quality Programs

The federal government operates six major health care programs that serve nearly 100 million Americans. Collectively, these programs significantly influence how health care is provided by the private sector. Leadership by Example explores how the federal government can leverage its unique position as regulator, purchaser, provider, and research sponsor to improve care - not only in these six programs but also throughout the nation's health care system. The book describes the federal programs and the populations they serve: Medicare (elderly), Medicaid (low income), SCHIP (children), VHA (veterans), TRICARE (individuals in the military and their dependents), and IHS (native Americans). It then examines the steps each program takes to assure and improve safety and quality of care. The Institute of Medicine proposes a national quality enhancement strategy focused on performance measurement of clinical quality and patient perceptions of care. The discussion on which this book focuses includes recommendations for developing and pilot-testing performance measures, creating an information infrastructure for comparing performance and disseminating results, and more. Leadership by Example also includes a proposed research agenda to support quality enhancement. The third in the series of books from the Quality of Health Care in America project, this well-targeted volume will be important to all readers of To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm - as well as new readers interested in the federal government's role in health care.

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0309168880

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Leadership by Example

Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Healthcare Quality

By: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Enhancing Federal Healthcare Quality Programs,Janet Corrigan,Jill Eden,Barbara M. Smith

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Leadership by Example

Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Healthcare Quality

By: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Enhancing Federal Healthcare Quality Programs,Janet Corrigan,Jill Eden,Barbara M. Smith

In response to a request from Congress, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened a committee to conduct an analysis of the federal government's quality enhancement processes in six government programs-- Medicare, Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the Department of Defense TRICARE and TRICARE for Life programs, the Veterans Health Administration program, and the Indian Health Services program"--Page 1.

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0309086302

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Leadership by Example

Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Health Care Quality

By: Institute of Medicine,Committee on Enhancing Federal Healthcare Quality Programs

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Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Health Care Quality

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Vital Signs

Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress

By: Institute of Medicine,Committee on Core Metrics for Better Health at Lower Cost

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Vital Signs

Core Metrics for Health and Health Care Progress

By: Institute of Medicine,Committee on Core Metrics for Better Health at Lower Cost

Thousands of measures are in use today to assess health and health care in the United States. Although many of these measures provide useful information, their usefulness in either gauging or guiding performance improvement in health and health care is seriously limited by their sheer number, as well as their lack of consistency, compatibility, reliability, focus, and organization. To achieve better health at lower cost, all stakeholders - including health professionals, payers, policy makers, and members of the public - must be alert to what matters most. What are the core measures that will yield the clearest understanding and focus on better health and well-being for Americans? Vital Signs explores the most important issues - healthier people, better quality care, affordable care, and engaged individuals and communities - and specifies a streamlined set of 15 core measures. These measures, if standardized and applied at national, state, local, and institutional levels across the country, will transform the effectiveness, efficiency, and burden of health measurement and help accelerate focus and progress on our highest health priorities. Vital Signs also describes the leadership and activities necessary to refine, apply, maintain, and revise the measures over time, as well as how they can improve the focus and utility of measures outside the core set. If health care is to become more effective and more efficient, sharper attention is required on the elements most important to health and health care. Vital Signs lays the groundwork for the adoption of core measures that, if systematically applied, will yield better health at a lower cost for all Americans.

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0309324963

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Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

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Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

As the United States devotes extensive resources to health care, evaluating how successfully the U.S. system delivers high-quality, high-value care in an equitable manner is essential. At the request of Congress, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) annually produces the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR). The reports have revealed areas in which health care performance has improved over time, but they also have identified major shortcomings. After five years of producing the NHQR and NHDR, AHRQ asked the IOM for guidance on how to improve the next generation of reports. The IOM concludes that the NHQR and NHDR can be improved in ways that would make them more influential in promoting change in the health care system. In addition to being sources of data on past trends, the national healthcare reports can provide more detailed insights into current performance, establish the value of closing gaps in quality and equity, and project the time required to bridge those gaps at the current pace of improvement.

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0309149851

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Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program

Maximizing Potential

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs

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Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program

Maximizing Potential

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Performance Measures, Payment, and Performance Improvement Programs

Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program is the second book in the new Pathways to Quality Health Care series. Focusing on performance improvement, it considers the history, role, and effectiveness of the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program and its potential to promote quality improvement within a changing health care delivery environment that includes standardized performance measures and new data collection and reporting requirements. This book carefully examines the QIOs that serve every state as well as the national program that guides and supports them. In addition, it highlights the important roles that a national program with private organizations in each state can play in promoting higher quality care. Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program looks closely at the technical assistance role of the QIO program and the need to encourage and support providers to improve their performance. By providing an in-depth assessment of the federal experience with quality improvement and recommendations for program improvement, this book helps point the way for those who strive to create higher quality and better value in health care. Intended for multiple audiences, Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization Program is essential reading for members of Congress, the federal executive branch, the QIOs, health care providers and clinicians, and stakeholder groups.

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