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Partner for Quality Care Initiative
Partner for Quality Care: Information for a Healthy Oregon, a collaborative initiative managed by the Oregon Health Care Quality Corp, brings together health plans, purchasers, the public, and primary care practitioners to measure and improve health care quality in Oregon. The initiative embraces a three-pronged approach: measure the quality of health care; help practitioners use quality measurement information to improve systems of care; and engage patients in taking an active role in contributing to quality health care. The Partner for Quality Care initiative is part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality program, which works to lift the overall quality of health care in 15 communities across the United States.
Consumers can be a powerful force for improving the quality of health care in this country. By asking the right questions and demanding more information, consumers can help make the health care system more accountable and its performance more transparent. Engaged consumers are more likely to be involved in managing their own health, including, collaborating with their providers, taking preventive actions and self-managing conditions. In order for consumers to be involved and engaged in their health care, they must understand what quality health care is, why it matters and how to get it.
For more information, resources, and materials for patients and consumers, please visit: www.PartnerForQualityCare.org
Creating a single source of data about primary care quality, available at the practice-level, is an essential building block in virtually all proposed approaches to reforming our health care system. In order to align clinicians, health plans, public and private purchasers and patients in a market that produces better outcomes, we must have meaningful, apples-to-apples comparison data about the quality of care that is provided at the clinic level across all payers. An expert committee of physician, plan, purchaser and consumer representatives identified principles for measure selection and a first set of Oregon measures. To ensure all measures adhere to national standards, the Team chose Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures, the most widely used set for ambulatory care. The measures are a subset of the national Ambulatory Quality Alliance Starter Set endorsed by the Institute of Medicine and are significant factors in the management of some chronic diseases and prevention of illness. These are a subset of the national Ambulatory Quality Alliance Starter Set endorsed by the Institute of Medicine. Measures focus on diabetes , cardiovascular disease, asthma, and depression. Public reporting on some of these measures will occur in late 2009 for clinics with four or more adult primary care practitioners.
The point of measuring health care quality is to identify successes and opportunities to improve. We are committed to helping clinics improve their capacity for system process improvement and clinical quality improvement.
Partner for Quality Care is offering quality improvement coaching to interested clinics at no charge. Two skilled quality consultants are available to help clinics:
Review and interpret data reports
Identify areas for improvement
Offer effective interventions and tools
Support successful implementation of quality improvement initiative(s)
Work with electronic or paper records
To request more information about quality improvement or to speak with a quality improvement coach, please contact: staff@q-corp.org 503-241-3571
Partner for Quality Care Initiative
Consumer Engagement
Consumers can be a powerful force for improving the quality of health care in this country. By asking the right questions and demanding more information, consumers can help make the health care system more accountable and its performance more transparent. Engaged consumers are more likely to be involved in managing their own health, including, collaborating with their providers, taking preventive actions and self-managing conditions. In order for consumers to be involved and engaged in their health care, they must understand what quality health care is, why it matters and how to get it.
For more information, resources, and materials for patients and consumers, please visit: www.PartnerForQualityCare.org
Quality Measurement and Reporting
Creating a single source of data about primary care quality, available at the practice-level, is an essential building block in virtually all proposed approaches to reforming our health care system. In order to align clinicians, health plans, public and private purchasers and patients in a market that produces better outcomes, we must have meaningful, apples-to-apples comparison data about the quality of care that is provided at the clinic level across all payers. An expert committee of physician, plan, purchaser and consumer representatives identified principles for measure selection and a first set of Oregon measures. To ensure all measures adhere to national standards, the Team chose Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures, the most widely used set for ambulatory care. The measures are a subset of the national Ambulatory Quality Alliance Starter Set endorsed by the Institute of Medicine and are significant factors in the management of some chronic diseases and prevention of illness. These are a subset of the national Ambulatory Quality Alliance Starter Set endorsed by the Institute of Medicine. Measures focus on diabetes , cardiovascular disease, asthma, and depression. Public reporting on some of these measures will occur in late 2009 for clinics with four or more adult primary care practitioners.
Quality Improvement
The point of measuring health care quality is to identify successes and opportunities to improve. We are committed to helping clinics improve their capacity for system process improvement and clinical quality improvement.
Partner for Quality Care is offering quality improvement coaching to interested clinics at no charge. Two skilled quality consultants are available to help clinics:
To request more information about quality improvement or to speak with a quality improvement coach, please contact: staff@q-corp.org 503-241-3571