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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
Luncheon Keynote: Using Data to Improve Quality
Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin
Surgeon General of the United States
Breakout Session D - Generating Quality Reports: Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Robin Weinick
RAND Corporation
Bruce Siegel
The George Washington University
Randy Cebul
Better Health Greater Cleveland
Ernest Moy
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Breakout Session E - Community Strategies on Data Dissemination and Use
Moderator: Jeff Caballero
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
Hector Balcazar
American Public Health Association Latino Caucus
Ralph Forquera
Seattle Indian Health Board
Maile Taualii
Native Hawaiian Epidemiology Center
Rosy Chang Weir
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
Barbara Pullen-Smith
National Association of State Offices of Minority Health
Breakout Session F - Setting Standards: Current Efforts to Increase Health Care Equity
Moderator: Garth Graham
Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Margaret O’Kane
National Committee for Quality Assurance
Paul Schyve
The Joint Commission
Helen Burstin
National Quality Forum
Closing Plenary - Incentivizing Quality: Promoting Equity in the Quality Improvement Enterprise
Moderator: Brian Smedley
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Stephen Somers
Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
Debra Ness
President
Closing Remarks
Marsha Lillie-Blanton
The George Washington University
Mark B. McClellan
Former Brookings Expert
Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Mark B. McClellan
Former Brookings Expert
Director, Margolis Center for Health Policy - Duke University
Opening Presentation: Placing Equity in the Context of Health Care Quality
Olivia Carter-Pokras
University of Maryland College Park
Opening Keynote
John Lumpkin
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Opening Plenary - Measuring Equity: Considerations for Standardizing Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data
Linda Bilheimer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Romana Hasnain-Wynia
Northwestern University
Moderator: David Nerenz
Henry Ford Health Care System
Marsha Regenstein
The George Washington University
Barry Straube
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Breakout Session A - Making the Business Case for Measuring and Addressing Disparities
Moderator: Reed Tuckson
UnitedHealth Group
Meredith Rosenthal
Harvard University
Andrew Crighton
Prudential
Bill Robertson
Adventist Health Care
Mara Youdelman
National Health Law Program
Breakout Session B - Making Meaningful Users of Health IT to Advance Equity in Care
Moderator: David Hunt
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Ashish Jha
Harvard University
Ruth Perot
Summit Health Institute for Research and Education, Inc.
Brenda Edwards
National Cancer Institute
Neil Calman
Institute for Family Health
Breakout Session C - Indirect Estimation as an Interim Strategy for Better Data Reporting and Use
Moderator: Joel Weissman
Harvard School of Public Health
Marc Elliott
RAND Corporation
Grace Ting
WellPoint, Inc.
Winston Wong
Kaiser Permanente
Kathryn Coltin
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
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