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）提出了针对召开全国研究开发和议程设置会议的活动，以推进全州所有付款人索赔数据库（APCD）的公开报告。该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。州APCD面临的挑战包括，州政策制定者期望APCD将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，如今，APCD是一个新的复杂数据集，其中公共报告用途和应用程序正处于早期开发阶段。NAHDO建议分两个项目阶段开展与会议有关的活动：第一阶段，研究发展阶段，通过确定现有的报告做法，为国家会议奠定基础，并为各州提出一项APCD报告指南，第二阶段，传播和议程制定，包括一个互动的全国会议，旨在向主要的国家APCD官员和APCD利益攸关方传播研究成果，2012年10月25日，路易斯安那州新奥尔良，主题为“为消费者报告成本和质量奠定基础：将APCD系统投入使用”。研究和会议的成果将支持各州的APCD战略规划，并将消除目前在许多州单独进行的重复研究和规划工作 公共卫生相关性：为了改变他们的医疗保健提供系统，提高医疗保健的成本和质量，各州将需要关于医疗保健使用和成本的全面信息。随着越来越多的州实施所有付款人索赔数据库（APCD），对统一报告规范的需求增加，但迄今为止，大多数努力都是孤立的报告举措。该项目将为公开报告来自APCD的成本和质量信息奠定基础，方法是建立APCD报告做法的基线，查明信息差距，并制定指导文件，以促进各州公开报告APCD信息。

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.