2009

Reporting and Measuring Health Disparities: Evaluation of Quality of Care

Date

Reporting and Measuring Health Disparities: Evaluation of Quality of Care

Dec 17, 2009

Introductions - NAHDO

Massachusetts Hospital Discharge Data:Hospital Race and Ethnicity Data Collection - Judy Parlato

Advising the Nation. Improving Health. - Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement

Tracking Hospital Readmissions: Report on the First National Tracking Hospital Readmissions: Research and Reporting Conference

Date

Tracking Hospital Readmissions: Report on the First National Tracking Hospital Readmissions: Research and Reporting Conference

June 18, 2009

Report on the First National Tracking Hospital Readmissions: Research and Reporting Conference, held October 28-29, 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. The Conference was funded in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

AGENDA

1. Overview/summary of the conference: Denise Love, RN, MBA, NAHDO (15 min)

Linking Data for Public Health and Research: Model Approaches

Date

Data Availability and Access Issues - Linkage Applications

March 19th 2009

Agenda

1. Identify the common issues with data availability and access (NAHDO)

Overview of high-level, cross-cutting common issues and problems with data linkage projects (data access, data element availability)

2. Highlight model approaches

Presentations from three ongoing large-scale data linkage projects that have solved some of the common problems of data access, data element availability, and data dissemination.