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21. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - Virginia Cooperative (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2017 - that provide a variety of quality improvement services typically not available to small primary care … United States as a whole, Virginia experiences racial, ethnic, and economic disparities in access … Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Quality Forum (NQF). … presentations at several national conferences as well as produced a webinar. … [National Academy for State Health Policy, 2017] Presentations: • Association Between Practice Ownership

22. Expanding and Enhancing All Payer Claims Database System Capacity in States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2018 - State representatives to attend a Fifth National APCD Conference and to offset conference costs. … Enhance the utility of State APCDs by highlighting best practice in applications for health services … the value of the data in improving the cost and quality of the health care delivery system. … to individual State design efforts. … NAHDO and the Council have been providing these services at no or low cost to States; as more States

23. Strategies for Improving CAHPS Clinician & Group (CG-CAHPS) Survey Scores (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20160315/improving-cg-cahps-scores-webcast-transcript.pdf
    March 01, 2016 - people can deposit their data and then have access to national comparative data. … experience with behavioral health services. … access; our overall work to do well at population health management. … Twenty-three percent state they're best served in a language other than English, and about 81% are below … They come together and look at the data, identify best practices and implement improvement efforts.

24. Webinar Transcript - National Quality Strategy Webinar: Introducing Nine Levers to Support the Aims and Priorities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/workingforquality/events/webinar-introducing-nine-levers-to-support-the-aims-and-priorities.html
    November 01, 2016 - the delivery of health care services, patient health outcomes, and population health—just a small task … to work with public health professionals and social support services in other sectors such as education … closer look at each one to see how they can be used to improve health and health care. … Question 1: One challenge in rural America with smaller critical access hospitals and rural health facility … Question 2: I work at a State Medicaid agency, and a large challenge for our organization is providing

25. Meeting Minutes, March 27, 2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2015 - , at Premise Health; and Leon L. … Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Secretary to conduct an investigation of … information technologies, and financial arrangements on  access to and affordability of health care. … of a series of AHRQ-commissioned papers in Health Services Research in October 2015. … The NAC members suggested that the investigators look at prescribing patterns and data on related diagnoses

26. Microsoft Word - LEWINVA-526037-v1MONAHRQDesignImp_FinalRpt_013111.DOC (pdf file)
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    January 31, 2011 - ways to look at the information and a variety of ways they would like to customize the approach to … at the national, state and local levels; and,  More effective approaches to engaging consumers in … a roll-up, helps people see a context for what they look at  People are looking for health information … Other Ideas for Improving the Charts  Showing national average and state average in the chart is good … Consider a horizontal line to show the national and state average.

27. Appendix VII: Public Comments Submitted Between March 7 and March 21, 2008 (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2010 - supports in a manner that respects the cultural beliefs, practices and languages of the individuals receiving … by Rosemary Kane 1 in terms of the needs that individuals have to receive: (a) direct support to access … , to meet the health, dental, physical, speech and occupational needs of participants in HCB services … to either compare HCBS contractors or look at regional variation. … For example we at Medicaid know that poor adherence to mental health medication leads to increases in

28. Engaging Stakeholders to Improve the Quality of Children's Health Care (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/implementation-guides/implementation-guide1/impguide1.pdf
    September 08, 2015 - be involved in QI activities.3,4 • Increasing public awareness. • Improving coordination of QI efforts … • A needs assessment for child health care QI in your State. … health care in the State. … Health Services Administration for grantees in the Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children’s Health … plan for improving health care services and care outcomes for children in Massachusetts.

29. Chartbook on Hispanic Health Care: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/hispanichealth/hisph-slides.html
    March 01, 2020 - by many factors, including language, lack of access to preventive care, lack of health insurance, and … Part 3: Trends in Access and Priorities of the National Quality Strategy Access to Health Care … a 2-month look-back period. … a 2-month look-back period. … access to a registered nurse who can address their health and interpreter needs in their preferred language

30. Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 2: Maximizing Consumer Understanding of Public Comparative Quality Reports: Effective Use of Explanatory Information (pdf file)
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    June 01, 2010 - data to compare products and services, but public reports of health care quality are not yet in the … • Consumers who do not look at provider ratings are more likely to make a poor choice. … , as it is hard to predict when a given individual may want to look at it. … Realistically, health professionals are more likely to look at this information than consumers are, … look for in a graph.

31. Best Practices in Public Reporting No. 2: Maximizing Consumer Understanding of Public Comparative Quality Reports: Effective Use of Explanatory Information | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2017 - Consumers who do not look at provider ratings are more likely to make a poor choice. … , as it is hard to predict when a given individual may want to look at it. … Realistically, health professionals are more likely to look at this information than consumers are, but … look for in a graph. … or required to look at information that is of lesser interest to them.

32. Recent Insights into CAHPS Survey Modes and Response Rates (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - or HIT, use of interpreter services, communication items designed for an in- depth or deep dive look … at performance and to support quality improvement efforts, narrative items or open- ended feedback that … reporting, value-based payment, and quality improvement applications that we just took a look at. … This particular graph is looking at a 10 year trend in CAHPS Health Plan Survey scores for the adult … language or administer it in another country.

33. Webinar Transcript - The National Quality Strategy: Best Practices to Improve Community Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2016 - it's really a pleasure to join this group and to be speaking in the company of the National Quality … We look at hospitalization and ED visit logs on a daily and weekly basis, and we also review a small … same language of the family, and we assist in planning asthma management in a family-centered way that … We worked at Children's towards advocating to have this become a part of the State budget. … really amazing things happen at the State level to look at how you regulate their certification and trying

34. Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) 2022 Virtual Research Meeting Summary: Assessing Patient Experience for Insights into Enhancing Equity in Healthcare (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2022 - • There is a need for disaggregated data to support a more granular look at subgroups. … in access to care. … to look more granularly at subgroups. … While there is a good understanding of the current state of health equity, the next step is exploring … to help identify and track gaps in care quality and incentivize efforts to advance health equity.

35. Operational Measurement of Diagnostic Safety: State of the Science (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science.pdf
    April 02, 2020 - Department of Health and Human Services. … Department of Health and Human Services. … level (e.g., State or national), or within a specific improvement initiative or collaborative. … As a first step, safety professionals need access to both reliable and valid data sources, ideally … g D at a Co lle ct io n A pp ro ac he s to O pe ra tio na liz in g D at a Sy nt

36. Operational Measurement of Diagnostic Safety: State of the Science (pdf file)
    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science-brief1.pdf
    April 02, 2020 - Department of Health and Human Services. … Department of Health and Human Services. … level (e.g., State or national), or within a specific improvement initiative or collaborative. … As a first step, safety professionals need access to both reliable and valid data sources, ideally … g D at a Co lle ct io n A pp ro ac he s to O pe ra tio na liz in g D at a Sy nt

37. Program Overview: Slide Presentation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2017 - And National-Level Highlights National On the CUSP: Stop BSI program 7 A national initiative to … Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units. … Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units. … a baseline to diagnose barriers and facilitators that can impact improvement efforts. … Strategies for improving patient safety culture in hospitals: a systematic review.

38. Module 17. Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2022 - choose a certified EHR system), and technical assistance in implementing health IT and using it in a … targeted health care by providing the means to structure a paperless national health information network … for coordinating all exchange efforts throughout the State of New York. … The Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) at the MassTech Collaborative is improving health care for … Providers must have a National Provider Identifier and a National Plan and Provider Enumeration System

39. National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program: Final Project Report (pdf file)
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    February 21, 2016 - The measures address a range of high-priority topics in child and adolescent health, such as access … • When a State decided to use an out-of-State organization for CME services, State staff had to … aimed at improving health care delivery, quality, or access. … and included these services in a new State plan amendment … AcademyHealth’s annual conferences and at its first National Child Health Policy Conference)

40. Using the CAHPS Database to Compare, Report, and Improve Organizational Performance (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2014 - and private stakeholders, all with a common interest in measuring and improving the patient care experience … and increasingly utilized by state Medicaid programs to coordinate services for expanded populations. … For example, the need to translate and validate CAHPS in additional languages is a significant concern … And “Access” was well below the national average at academic medical centers. … Karls, Slide 66 If, for example, you wanted to look only at the national percentiles-- that’s what was