MANAGED CARE QUALITY MONITORING CONFERENCE

本次会议将汇集卫生保健质量领域的专家，提供建立私营部门管理的卫生保健数据存储库和监测系统所需的投入，以评估卫生保健质量随时间的变化。一个由质量测量和管理式医疗领域的18名国家专家组成的小组将担任小组成员，就管理式医疗质量监测系统的发展提供技术专门知识和咨询意见。这次会议代表了开发原型数据存储库和管理式医疗监测系统的第一步，以有效地监测和评估私营卫生保健提供系统的变化。该小组将评估联合健康集团现有的管理数据，这些数据代表了42个市场960万会员年的数据，并评估该系统在解决有关管理式医疗质量的新兴卫生服务研究和公共政策问题方面的能力，以证明这些数据的效用。会议将包括关于为质量监控系统、数据结构、变量和定义创建标准的具体讨论。该系统的目标是通过实时报告和传播功能，提供全国卫生保健质量的晴雨表。

This conference will bring together experts in the field of health care quality to provide the input needed to establish a private sector manage care data repository and monitoring system to evaluate changes in health care quality over time. A group of 18 national experts in the field of quality measurement and managed care will serve as panel members to provide technical expertise and advice on the development of a quality monitoring system for managed care. The conference represents the first steps toward the development of a prototype data repository and managed care monitoring system to effectively monitor and evaluate changes in the private health care delivery system. The panel will evaluate the existing administrative data of United HealthGroup, representing 9.6 million member years of data in 42 markets, and the ability of the system to serve as a demonstration of the utility of such data to address emerging health services research and public policy issues on the quality of managed care. The conference will include specific discussions about creating standards for a quality monitoring system, data structures, variables, and definitions. The goal of such a system is to provide a national barometer of health care quality through real-time reporting and dissemination functions.