Slide Presentation from the AHRQ 2007 Annual Conference

Aiming High: Future Directions?

• Critical role of public information and analysis to guide and drive change
• AHRQ potential
  • Public repository and public data
  • Composites and benchmarks: enable focus on variation, high/low performance areas and care systems
  • Quality, access and cost analysis: High Value
• Research and collaboration
  • Linking quality-related research to performance indicators
  • "E-indicators": potential with electronic health records*
  • Collaborative efforts to understand key drivers of high performance
  • Whole system view: primary and specialized care

*Commonwealth Fund/RWJF project with Jinnet Fowles, Park Noolet, and Jonathan Weiner, Johns Hopkins.