Agenda of the October 13 - 14, 2009 NCVHS Subcommittee on Quality Meeting

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NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

SUBCOMMITTEE ON QUALITY MEETING

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October 13 - 14, 2009

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Meeting Summary

Tuesday, October 13 Transcript	The Meaningful Measure Supply Chain
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.	Introductions Overview Goals Role of NCVHS and the hearing	Justine Carr, Co-chair Subcommitee on Quality, NCVHS
9:30 - 10:00 a.m.	Setting priorities for measurement NQF National Priorities Partnership and NQF work towards meaningful use measures	Helen Burstin, NQF
10:00 - 11:30 a.m.	What makes a measure meaningful? Development process Adoptability Right measures Outcomes vs. process measures Structural vs. behavioral measures Subject Areas	Helen Burstin, NQF David Reuben, ABIM
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.	Current measure development, endorsement, and adoption process Participants and roles Data sources Strengths Shortcomings Linkage with EHRs What aspects of the current process support development of meaningful measures? Which don't? Addressing sub-populations Use of new data sources (e.g. EHRs and user-generated)	Karen Kmetic, AMA Sarah Scholle, NCQA Bernie Rosof, QHC Frank Opelka, Louisiana State University
2:30 - 3:15 p.m.	Building Meaningful Measures - Adoptability Specifications Linkage with Health IT New data sources Data collection Update/keeping measures current	Floyd Eisenberg, NQF Blackford Middleton, Subcommittee on Quality, NCVHS
3:15 - 3:30 p.m.	Break
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.	Meaningful measures for care coordination Current measures Strengths Weaknesses What makes a measure meaningful? Recommendations	Sarah Hudson Scholle, NCQA Kathy McDonald, Stanford University (By Phone)
4:30 - 5:30 p.m.	Re-cap and Discussion

Wednesday, October 14 Transcript
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.	Agenda Recap of Oct 13 testimony Discussion of national priority measure sets	Paul Tang, Co-chair Subcommittee on Quality, NCVHS Carolyn Clancy, AHRQ
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.	Meaningful measures of disparities Current measures Strengths Weaknesses What makes a measure meaningful? Recommendations	Ernie Moy, AHRQ Kalahn Taylor-Clark, Brookings Institution
10:30 - 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 - 12:30 p.m.	Meaningful measures of value (including efficiency) Current measures Strengths Weaknesses What makes a measure meaningful? Recommendations	Michael Rapp, DHHS/CMS Joachim Roski, Brookings Institution
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.	Break for Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.	Meaningful measures of integration, population health and health status Current measures Strengths Weaknesses What makes a measure meaningful? Recommendations	Linda Harris, DHHS/OS/OPHS Floyd Eisenberg, NQF (By Phone)
2:30 - 3:0 p.m.	Summary, Discussion and Next Steps

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October 20, 2009