Thursday, October 15 

 

Welcome 

 

MONAHRQ Overview and Demonstration of the System

Anne Elixhauser, PhD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  

Elliott M. Stone Award of Excellence 

Awardee:  Arnold Milstein, MD 

Presenter:  Ray Campbell, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium 

 

Keynote Address:  Health Data as the Oxygen of Health Reform 

Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health Chief Physician, Mercer Health & Benefits    

 

 

 

Panel:  The National Health Policy Agenda and the Role of Health Data Organizations 

 

Moderator:  Craig Schneider, PhD, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium 

 

A roundtable discussion of federal agency leaders  

 

Karen Milgate, MS, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 

Irene Fraser, PhD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality  

Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, Office of the Secretary, HHS

Office of Civil Rights (TBD) 

 

MP3 Audio Recording of Session 

 

Luncheon Award Ceremony  

   

First Annual Innovation in Data Dissemination Award 

Awardee:  Florida Agency for Health Care Administration 

Presenter:  Chris Kelly, Treo Solutions 

 

 

 

Panel:  State Health Policy Agenda: A roundtable discussion with leaders of complementary state organizations

 

States face unique challenges in protecting and improving the health of their citizens.  How can states in general and health data organizations in particular respond to ARRA initiatives in disease prevention, comparative effectiveness research, health information technology adoption, and health workforce expansion?  What are the challenges and opportunities for the state data organizations as new national health policy is crafted? 

 

Moderator:  National Governors Association, Ree Sailors, NGA

Sarah deLone, JD, National Academy of State Health Policy 

Joy Wilson, National Conference of State Legislatures 

Mitch Adams, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative 

Michael T. Lundberg, Virginia Health Information 

 

 

    

Concurrent Session 1A:   

The Transparency Conundrum: What is publicly reported, who decides, and how to balance confidentiality with the public’s need to know? 

 

Public reporting on quality and efficiency is an integral part of health care reform at both the state and national levels.  How can we get it right and provide useful information? Three perspectives: 

 

Moderator:  Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News 

 

Dorothy Jeffress, MBA, MSW, MA, Center for Advancing Health - Consumer Perspective   

Barbara Rudolph, PhD, MSSW, Leaps and Measures, the Leapfrog Group - Purchaser Perspective   

American Medical Association (TBD) - Physician perspective 

 

 

 

Concurrent Session 1B:

Disparities:  Evaluation of Quality of Care 

 

Moderator:  Roxanne Andrews, PhD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

 

Health disparities continues to be a pressing policy concern.  What progress are we making and how are states responding to the technical and political challenges to measuring and reporting disparities? 

 

Ernest Moy, MD, MPH, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 

 

Judy Parlato, BSN, MPH, Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy 

 

 

Friday, October 16 

 

 

Plenary: The Value of Health Data to Health Care Reform 

 

Fresh approaches to using health care data and statistics to inform health policy and evaluate its impact  

 

David C. Goodman, MD, MS, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice 

 

     

Roundtable Panel:  Doing More with Less:  Collaboration or Competition? 

 

Moderator:  Joseph Greenway, MPH, University of Nevada at Las Vegas 

 

Marc Bennett, HealthInsight of Utah/Nevada - The Chartered Value Exchange  

Patricia Merryweather, MA, Illinois Hospital Association - The Hospital Association  

Joe Martin, Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council - The Health Data Organization   

 

 

Technical Concurrent Session 2A:

How to Build Multi-Purpose/Hybrid Datasets upon Existing Claims Data  

 

This session will cover three topics: 1) Hybrid data sets focusing on the results of the AHRQ pilots; 2) merging health data sets from multiple sources in the absence of a single patient identifier; and 3) creating “synthetic” merged data sets that protect patient confidentiality but permit accurate epidemiological analysis. 

 

Moderator:  Michael Pine, MD, MBA, Michael Pine and Associates 

 

Michael T. Lundberg, Virginia Health Information  

Mari Tietze, Texas Tech University Health Science Center 

Christine Cox, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  

 

 

Policy Concurrent Session 2B:  

Public Reporting of Comparative Quality Data: Overview and Technical Challenges  

 

Moderator:  Chris Kelly, Treo Solutions 

 

Technical Challenges and Lessons Learned 

  

Carol Cronin, MS, Informed Patient Institute

Ron Spingarn, California Office of Statewide Planning & Development 

Bill Porter, Center for Health Information Analysis-University of Nevada at Las Vegas 

Elizabeth Eastman, Florida Agency for Health Care Administration 

 

 

Break-out Luncheon Discussions:  Meet the Experts  

 

All-Payer Claims Databases 101 

Patrick Miller, MPH, RAPHIC 

Craig Schneider, PhD, Massachusetts Health Data Consortium 

Alan Prysunka, MS, Maine Health Data Organization  

 

Present-on-Admission/”Never Events” 

Michael Pine, MD, MBA, Michael Pine and Associates 

 

ICD-10 Getting Ready 

Caroline Piselli, BSNN, MBA, FACHE, 3M Health Information Systems 

 

Integrating Hospital Data with Public Health Reporting Systems 

C. Scott Danos, Orion Health 

Joe Surkin, Mississippi State Department of Health

 Posters

All-Payer Cliams Databases(APCD): Two Studies of the Potential Benefits and Implementation Challenges
Craig D. Schneider, PhD, Robert McGrath, PhD, and David Laflamme, PhD.

 

Remodeling the National Information System of People Covered by Private Health Plans: and institutional project in Brazil.

Carlos Falcao Maranhao, Daniele Pinto de Silveira and  Suriette Apolinario Santos

 

Potentially Preventable Readmissions to Utah Hospitals: Preliminary Findings

Carol Masheter, PhD

 

Source of Payment Typology: A New National Standard: The Experience of the Public Healath Data Standards Consortium Payer Typology

Amy Bernstein, ScD and Judy Parlato, MBA

 

National Data on Ambulatory Surgery in 1994-96 compared to 2006

Marni Hall

 

Asian and Pacific Island Subpopulations: Methods to Improve Information on Their Healthcare Quality

Jill B Miyamura, PhD and Roxanne M Andrews, PhD

 

Uses of Commercial Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Transaction Data in CER (Comparative Effectiveness Research)

Timothy Champney, PhD and Aaron Bull, BME

 

Pharmaceutical Distribution Data in Management of Emergency Response

Aaron Bull, BME and Timothy Champney, PhD and click here

 

Transformation of Data Reporting with Health Information Exchange

Christopher B Sullivan, PhD

 

A Regional Enterprise Master Patient Index Approach to Readmission Analysis

Mari Tietze, PhD, RN-BC

 

Using Episodes of Care in Healthcare Data Analysis

Mark Gaskill, MFT and Dr. William Vennart