Laying the Groundwork for Consumer Reporting on Cost and Quality: Putting All-Pay

描述（由申请人提供）：全国健康数据组织协会（NAHDO）提议开展活动，旨在召集全国研究发展和议程设定会议，以推进全州所有付款人索赔数据库（apcd）的公开报告。这个项目的目标受众是负责本州APCD规划和管理活动的州卫生数据官员。各州的行政资料汇编面临的挑战包括，各州决策者期望行政资料汇编支持消费者成本和质量信息，并支持卫生改革和透明度举措。然而，今天，apcd是一个新的、复杂的数据集，其中公共报告的使用和应用还处于早期发展阶段。工发组织建议分两个项目阶段执行与会议有关的活动：第一阶段，研究发展阶段，通过确定现有的报告实践，为全国会议奠定基础，并为各州提出APCD报告指南；第二阶段，传播和议程设置，包括一个互动式全国会议，旨在向主要的APCD官员和APCD利益相关者传播研究成果，于2012年10月25日在路易斯安那州新奥尔良举行。主题为“为消费者报告成本及质素奠定基础：应用APCD系统”。研究和会议的成果将支持APCD在各州的战略规划，并将消除目前在许多州单独发生的重复研究和规划工作

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) proposes activities directed toward convening a national research development and agenda setting conference to advance public reporting from statewide All-Payer Claims Databases (APCDs). The target audience for this project is state health data officials responsible for APCD planning and management activities in their state. State APCD challenges include the fact that state policymakers have expectations that APCDs will support consumer cost and quality information and also support health reform and transparency initiatives. Yet, today, APCDs are a new and complex dataset in which public reporting uses and applications are at early stages of development. NAHDO proposes to implement conference-related activities in two project phases: Phase 1, the Research Development stage, to establish the groundwork for a national conference by identifying existing reporting practices and propose an APCD reporting guidance for states and Phase 2, Dissemination and Agenda Setting, consisting of an interactive national conference geared to the dissemination of research findings to key state APCD officials and APCD stakeholders in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 25, 2012, themed "Laying the Groundwork for Consumer Reporting on Cost and Quality: Putting APCD Systems to Work". The products of the research and the conference will support APCD strategic planning in states and will eliminate duplicative research and planning efforts now occurring individually in many states PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: To transform their health care delivery systems and improve health care cost and quality, states will need comprehensive information on health care use and costs. As more states implement All-Payer Claims Data Bases (APCDs), the need for uniform reporting specifications increases, yet to date most efforts have been isolated reporting initiatives. This project will lay the groundwork for public reporting on cost and quality information from APCDs by establishing a baseline of APCD reporting practices, identifying gaps in information, and developing guidance documents to facilitate the public reporting of APCD information in states.