Quality Reporting Workgroup Charter

Objectives (PROPOSED):

• Serve as a national advisory council to states and to quality and patient safety organizations, regarding quality public reporting and health care transparency.
  
• Advise states on quality and patient safety indicators to be used for state- and/or nation-wide monitoring and reporting.
  
• Identify opportunities and promote collaborative strategies to improve the public reporting of quality and patient safety information.
  
• Represent states in the overall national quality and patient safety dialogue.
  Develop position statements regarding quality public reporting and health care transparency.
  
• Share best practices, lessons learned and overall knowledge among members, for transfer to their respective organizations.
   

Membership:

• NAHDO Staff –  (Denise Love, MBA; Gulzar H. Shah, MStat, MSS, PhD;  Barbara Rudolph, PhD)
• State representatives actively involved in public reporting initiatives
• Private organizations (hospital associations, business coalitions, private data organizations) actively involved in public reporting initiatives, either as advisory members to state panels and/or as partners in state initiatives
• Other organizations (vendors and consultants with experience and expertise in the applied aspects of public reporting

Standing sub-workgroups

• IQIs
• Infection reporting