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Workgroup on Quality
Charge
Informed policies about the most appropriate mechanisms for (1) organizing
and financing the delivery of health services and (2) reducing morbidity and
mortality and improving quality of life, depend upon access to valid and
reliable data about the outcomes of care and services provided by the U.S.
health care system. The Workgroup on Quality will address information needs
related to assessing and improving the quality of care and services provided by
the U.S. health care delivery system, access to those services and outcomes of
care.
Work Plan
The work plan for 1999-2001 calls for the Workgroup on Quality to conduct
the following activities and analyses:
- Address the data needs of state Medicaid agencies to support quality
assessment and improvement in the managed care industry and make
recommendations for improving those data;
- Evaluate the data needs to support quality assessment and improvement, as
it relates to the delivery of post-acute care and to the continuum of care and
make recommendations for improving those data;
- Using those recommendations of the Presidents Advisory Commission
that are data dependent, review existing health and health-related data
systems, and their ability to generate meaningful information about quality of
care, across the public and private sectors and for diverse populations.
Identify the kinds of data that are most important for assessing and improving
quality of care and evaluate access to those data, the quality of those data,
and their availability to be used to create measures of quality;
- Produce recommendations about the information systems and other data
issues related to the creation of a road map for the collection and use of
quality of care information and a system that links both public and private
data bases to support quality of care measurement.
- Integrating with the work of the Subcommittee on Standards and Security
and its Workgroup on the Computer-based Patient Record, make recommendations
for improving the capabilities of administrative and clinical information
systems and vital records to support quality assessment and improvement; and
- Assess the strengths and weaknesses of national public and private surveys
in meeting data needs for assessing access to and acceptability of health care
services and their impact on health status and outcomes in the general
population and in specific population and patient subgroups.
Approved February 4, 1999 6-14-99 Return to Top
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