Charting a Course for Health Care Quality Improvement: Data-Driven Strategies for Eliminating Health Disparities

As our nation continues to pursue comprehensive health care reform, the need to improve health care quality and achieve equitable care for all Americans remains a critical issue that must be addressed. High-quality health care is seldom consistently distributed across populations, and vulnerable groups – such as racial, ethnic, and linguistic minorities – are more likely to be negatively affected by disparities in health care.

On March 25, the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform hosted a national conference to begin to address health care quality issues faced by vulnerable communities. Key stakeholders came together to:

Advance strategies for improved data collection, integration, and utilization activities, as well as disparities measurement to promote health care equity; and

Identify best practices for collecting and reporting race, ethnicity, and primary language data, as well as determine practical, consensus-driven steps to measure and use these data to improve quality of care.

Agenda

Surgeon General of the United States

RAND Corporation

The George Washington University

Better Health Greater Cleveland

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations

American Public Health Association Latino Caucus

Seattle Indian Health Board

Native Hawaiian Epidemiology Center

Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations

National Association of State Offices of Minority Health

Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

National Committee for Quality Assurance

The Joint Commission

National Quality Forum

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

President

The George Washington University

Former Brookings Expert

Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University

Former Brookings Expert

Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University

University of Maryland College Park

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Northwestern University

Henry Ford Health Care System

The George Washington University

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

UnitedHealth Group

Harvard University

Prudential

Adventist Health Care

National Health Law Program

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Harvard University

Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc.

National Cancer Institute

Institute for Family Health

Harvard School of Public Health

RAND Corporation

WellPoint, Inc.

Kaiser Permanente

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care

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