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NASHP Report: Health IT, Quality Reporting and Medicaid Well Child Benefits: An Assessment of Progress and Potential in the District of Columbia
Recent developments indicate the emergence of a national framework for quality oversight and improvement in children’s health. Concurrently, investment in health information technology and exchange is creating state HIT/HIE infrastructure based on EHR-driven clinical data capacity. This report, commissioned by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, details the opportunities available to the District of Columbia – and potentially other states as well - to use this emerging quality framework and HIT/HIE infrastructure to enhance the quality and oversight of Medicaid EPSDT benefits.
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Medicaid and CHIP Children's Healthcare Quality Measures: What States Use and What They Want
This article, written by NASHP Managing Director Catherine Hess and former NASHP Program Director Sarah deLone, draws from responses to NASHP’s Charting CHIP IV survey, supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and from analytic work supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to inform AHRQ’s Children’s Healthcare Quality Measures Subcommittee. The article is published in the CHIPRA Supplement of Academic Pediatrics (Volume 11, No. 3S, May-June 2011).
Medicaid and CHIP Children's Healthcare Quality Measures: What States Use and What They Want
May 2011 -
State Strategies to Improve Quality and Efficiency: Making the Most of Opportunities in National Health Reform
There is an acknowledged need for extensive reform to the health care delivery system in the United States. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act offers unprecedented opportunities to transform care delivery, with numerous provisions that support systemic improvements. States have an imperative to greatly improve system efficiency if they are to effectively and sustainably implement the law’s changes, particularly mandatory coverage expansion. This report examines specific Affordable Care Act provisions that support state system improvement goals and profiles efforts in 10 states: Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The report highlights the opportunities and challenges that federal health care reform will bring and offers suggestions for how state and national leaders can streamline implementation.
December 2010» -
Enhancing Clinical Information in Statewide Hospital Administrative Data: Project Summary and Lessons Learned
This report, developed by Thomson Reuters and NASHP, is based on lessons from the AHRQ-sponsored Adding Clinical Data project, which awarded Pilot or Planning contracts to the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Partner organizations in Florida, Minnesota, Virginia, and Washington to explore feasible, practical solutions to adding clinical data to administrative discharge records. Adding present on admission coding and laboratory results to existing administrative datasets is seen as a practical, effective, and cost-effective method to produce more accurate and expanded quality assessments of hospitals; it will also provide the evidence base for quality improvement efforts.January 2010» -
Quality Improvement Standards and Processes Used by Select Public and Private Entities to Monitor Performance of Managed Care Plans
Over the past several years, HCFA's Medicare and Medicaid offices have been engaged in concurrent initiatives to design and implement standards and strategies for quality improvement under managed care arrangements.
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State Partnerships to Improve Quality: Models and Practices from Leading States Issue Brief
The National Academy for State Health Policy identified ten leading state quality improvement partnerships – interrelated broad-based partnerships, mostly with public and private sector representation, which have long-term, statewide, systemic quality improvement strategic intent, and transparent agendas. This State Health Policy Briefing summarizes results of NASHP’s full report examining these partnerships in Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The key factors, policies, and practices that influence the quality improvement partnerships in these 10 states offer insights for achieving systemic improvement in health care quality and performance. The full report is also available.July 2009 -
State Partnerships to Improve Quality: Models and Practices from Leading States Report
This NASHP-led, Commonwealth Fund-supported report highlights ten leading state quality improvement partnerships, broad-based, public-private partnerships that strive for long-term, statewide, and systemic quality improvement. This report describes the state partnerships' origins, internal processes, accomplishments, and lessons learned, as well as their five strategies for achieving quality improvement. The factors and policies that influence the 10 featured state partnerships offer key insights for achieving systemic improvement in health care quality and performance. The report features state partnerships in Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.June 2009 -
The Pennsylvania Learning Exchange: Helping States Improve and Integrate Patient Safety Initiatives
According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medical errors are a leading cause of death in the United States. Yet, state officials who focus on patient safety have few venues to meet, share innovative strategies, and problem solve with each other because patient safety initiatives originate in a variety of state agencies. This report summarizes the Pennsylvania Learning Exchange, an event that brought state officials to Pennsylvania in September 2007 to learn about the state’s successes, challenges, and key elements of its patient safety initiatives. The event was supported by the Commonwealth Fund.December 2007 -
The Pennsylvania Learning Exchange: Helping States Improve and Integrate Patient Safety Initiatives Summary Report
According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), preventable medical errors are a leading cause of death in the United States. Yet, state officials who focus on patient safety have few venues to meet, share innovative strategies, and problem solve with each other because patient safety initiatives originate in a variety of state agencies. This report summarizes the Pennsylvania Learning Exchange, an event that brought state officials to Pennsylvania in September 2007 to learn about the state’s successes, challenges, and key elements of its patient safety initiatives. The event was supported by the Commonwealth Fund.December 2007 -
Residential Care and Assisted Living: State Oversight Practices and State Information Available to Consumers
This report reviews state monitoring and oversight practices of assisted living facilities, along with information that is available on state agency Web sites to consumers and family members about assisted living.September 2006
