Healthcare Quality & Provider

Advisory Committee

1. Welcome and introductions
   
   
2. Review of Minutes of February 18, 2010
   
   
3. Overview of Agenda
   
   
4. Key topic:  2nd meeting devoted to quality of care and reporting measures to monitor quality.
   
   
5. Principles for Quality Assessment Measures discussed at last meeting:
   
   
   1. Meaningful – relevant to providers and consumers, add value
      
      
   2. Vetted—measures should be previously vetted by recognized source, allowing for possibility that there are unique quality factors for Ct. to consider
      
      
   3. Validated
      
      
   4. Not onerous – accessible & affordable to track and report data
      
      
      1. POS/EHR data preferred; may need to start with claims data
         
         
      2. Discussed possible use of chronic disease registry if no EMR
         
         
         
      3. Need to identify support for practices to report data
         
         
6. Individuals with key assignment for recommending possible monitoring and reporting measures
   
   
7. Out-patient and preventive measures:  Rodney Hornbake 
   
   
8. In-patient:  Allison Hong
   
   
9. Long term care and home care:  Marcia Petrillo, Tom Meehan
   
   
10. Pediatric/Family planning:  Clarice Begemann
    
    
11. Mental Health:  Vicki Veltri, Jeff Walters
    
    
12. Special populations:  Margaret Flinter, Sarah Long
    
    
13. Summary recommendations following discussion
    
    
    
14. Discussion:  early thoughts on impact of passage of federal health reform on our work
    
    
    
15. Discussion:  Board of Sustinet has indicated there are resources for bringing in expert assistance or guest speaker if we need it…thoughts?
    
    
    
16. Next meeting:  April 15th, 2010

 Final_Agenda_06262010.pdf