How do we provide high-quality healthcare while at the same time controlling costs? The question has attracted national attention. However, in Minnesota, Washington, and Wisconsin, local reform efforts are already focusing on data pooling as a way to better understand the healthcare environment.
Data pooling can help fuel quality and efficiency measures and provide real knowledge about local trends. Payors, providers, employer groups and consumers who focus on the specific conditions in their local areas are better positioned to make the best healthcare decisions for their regions.
Join the Managed Care Information Center and Milliman to learn about the best practices and lessons learned in current data pooling initiatives and its future potential in “Healthcare Data Pooling and Evidence-Based Measures: Understanding The Coming Changes in Employer, Payor and Provider Dynamics” a 90-minute audio conference that took place in May 2008.
Agenda
- Best practices and lessons learned from existing data pooling initiatives
- Minnesota Community Measurement
- Puget Sound Health Alliance (Seattle, WA)
- Wisconsin Health Information Organization
- Why data pooling is becoming more prevalent across the US
- The evolution from payer based quality reporting to provider based
- The importance of maintaining good provider relationships
- Harnessing the power of evidence-bases measures
- The need for third party data aggregation and analysis
- How to overcome the current challenges, including physician attribution and patient verification
- The potential for wide-ranging population-centric analysis
- How to define success of data pooling efforts
- The next evolutionary steps in evidence-bases measures
- Question and answer session
Health plans, hospitals, PHOs, IPAs, other providers,
healthcare technology companies, consultants, employers with titles
like:
CEOs, COOs, executive director, administrator, human resource benefit
managers, medical directors, employer health plan decision makers,
network development and provider services directors, strategic
planners, utilization management, healthcare management, TPAs, network
managers, physician practice management company executives, medical
management directors, analysts, consultants, account services
and administration executives and ancillary products managers.
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