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

描述(由申请人提供)：国家健康数据组织协会(NAHDO)建议开展活动，旨在召开一次全国研究发展和议程设置会议，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该州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，州政策制定者预期APCD将支持消费者成本和质量信息，并支持医疗改革和透明度倡议。然而，今天，APCDS是一个新的复杂的数据集，其中公共报告的使用和应用处于开发的早期阶段。NAHDO提议分两个项目阶段实施与会议相关的活动：第一阶段，研究开发阶段，通过确定现有的报告做法，为召开全国会议奠定基础，并提出针对各州的APCD报告指南，以及第二阶段，传播和议程设置，包括2012年10月25日在路易斯安那州新奥尔良举行的旨在向各州APCD主要官员和APCD利益攸关方传播研究成果的互动式全国会议，主题为“为消费者报告成本和质量：使用APCD系统奠定基础”。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进行的重复研究和规划工作 公共卫生相关性：为了改变其卫生保健提供系统，提高卫生保健成本和质量，各州将需要关于卫生保健使用和费用的全面信息。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，但到目前为止，大多数努力都是孤立的报告倡议。该项目将通过建立亚太化学品管制报告做法的基线，找出信息方面的差距，并编写指导文件，促进各国公开报告亚太化学品管制方案的信息，从而为公开报告亚太化学品管制方案的成本和质量信息奠定基础。

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.