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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
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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» -
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» -
Maximizing the Use of State Adverse Event Data to Improve Patient Safety, Brief
This news brief reviews key findings from a meeting of state officials that focused on efforts to improve data integrity, event report analysis, and data feedback and dissemination. The report examines these issues and identifies a number of challenges and opportunities that states encounter as they attempt to improve their databases and the usefulness of the data for improving patient safety. Eleven states participated in the summit: Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Utah. The report contains a number of tools and resources that have been developed by the participating states.December 2005» -
Aging in Place in Assisted Living: State Regulations and Practice
The purpose of this report is to analyze the varied approaches being used in several states committed to supporting aging in place. A shifting focus to respond to consumer preferences is also supported by trends in state policy, although each state has a unique approach to regulating aging in place.February 2005» -
Using Administrative Data to Assess Quality of Care in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program
This paper is designed to provide states with guidance on how to use administrative data for quality assessment purposes. State agencies and health plans routinely collect administrative data such as enrollment, claims, and encounter files for billing and program operations purposes. While these data were not originally intended for quality purposes, they can form a strong foundation to support quality assessment activities.November 2003» -
The Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis: Opportunity for State Action
A third malpractice insurance crisis in as many decades provides states with an opportunity to take an inclusive approach to the problem by addressing patient safety and medical errors in addition to tort reform. This paper examines the history and causes of the problem, analyzes the various approaches states are taking to solve this most recent crisis, and summarizes Pennsylvania's comprehensive new legislation that links patient safety and tort reform.July 2002»
