National Quality Forum - Annual Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：公共和私营部门的领导者于1999年底成立了国家质量论坛，我们对有效、可靠和标准化的医疗保健绩效指标的需求有着共同的认识或紧迫感，以支持和推进公共问责、质量改进工作、提高患者安全和基于价值的采购。 NQF是一家公私合作和公益公司，根据总统医疗保健行业消费者保护和质量咨询委员会的建议成立，目前拥有300多名成员，反映了医疗保健系统各部门的广泛参与。通过全国资格基金会的努力，标准化的衡量标准在地方和国家各级以及在所有护理机构都可以使用。随着NQF越来越成功地认可标准化措施，执行变得更加重要，也是一个更大的挑战。这需要所有利益攸关方之间开展有意义的合作。近年来，NQF年会一直是一个机会，将来自整个医疗保健行业的代表聚集在一起，听取医疗保健质量领域的最新发展，并讨论实施NQF认可的自愿共识标准的挑战和机遇。这次会议反映了成员们所指出的对推进医疗质量议程最有益的内容。通过全体会议、小组讨论和小组分组讨论的结合，与会者能够了解医疗质量的重要趋势，并就如何在组织环境中实施绩效衡量标准和其他工具进行重点讨论。自成立以来，NQF年会一直是一个培养共同目标感的论坛，并促进医疗保健系统中不同利益相关者之间的质量测量，报告和改进的共享框架。 共同努力和寻找共同点的重要性正变得越来越重要。NQF全国质量论坛第六届年会的主题是“利益相关者合作，迎接医疗质量改进的挑战”。

DESCRIPTION (PROVIDED BY APPLICANT): Leaders in both the public and private sectors moved to create the National Quality Forum in late 1999 our of a shared sense or urgency about the need for valid, reliable, and standardized healthcare performance measures to support and advance public accountability, quality improvement efforts, increased patient safety, and value-based purchasing. Established as a public-private partnership and public benefit corporation, based on the recommendation of the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, NQF now has over 300 members reflecting broad participation from all parts of the healthcare system. Largely through the efforts of NQF, standardized measures are becoming available for use at both the local and national levels and through all care settings. With the increased success of NQF to endorse standardized measures, implementation becomes both more critical and a greater challenge. This requires meaningful collaboration among all stakeholders. The NQF Annual Meeting in recent years has been an opportunity to bring together these representatives from the entire healthcare industry to hear about the latest developments in the healthcare quality landscape and to discuss the challenges and opportunities in implementing NQF-endorsed voluntary consensus standards. The meeting reflects what the Members have indicated what will be most beneficial in advancing the healthcare quality agenda. Through a combination of plenary sessions, panel discussions, and small group breakouts, the attendees are able to hear about significant trends in healthcare quality and engage in focused discussions on how to implement performance measures and other tools in their organizational settings. Since its inception, the NQF Annual Meeting has been a forum for nurturing a sense of common purpose and promoting a shared framework for quality measurement, reporting, and improvement across the disparate stakeholders in the healthcare system. The importance of working together and finding common ground is becoming more critical. The theme of NQF's National Quality Forum's 6th Annual Meeting is "Collaborating Among Stakeholders to Meet the Challenges of Healthcare Quality Improvement.