National Quality Forum - Annual Meeting

描述(由申请人提供)：公共和私营部门的领导人在1999年底创建了国家质量论坛，我们有共同的意识或紧迫感，需要有效、可靠和标准化的医疗业绩衡量标准，以支持和推进公共问责、质量改进努力、增加患者安全和基于价值的采购。 NQF是根据卫生保健行业消费者保护和质量总统咨询委员会的建议成立的一家公私合作和公益公司，目前有300多名成员，反映了卫生保健系统各个部分的广泛参与。在全国卫生保健基金会的努力下，标准化措施在地方和国家两级以及通过所有护理机构均可使用。随着NQF越来越成功地认可标准化措施，执行工作变得更加关键，也成为更大的挑战。这需要所有利益攸关方之间有意义的合作。近年来，NQF年会是一个机会，让来自整个医疗行业的这些代表齐聚一堂，听取医疗质量格局的最新发展，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提出的对推进医疗质量议程最有利的内容。通过全体会议、小组讨论和小组分组讨论，与会者能够了解医疗质量的重要趋势，并参与有关如何在其组织环境中实施绩效衡量和其他工具的重点讨论。自成立以来，NQF年会一直是一个培养共同使命感的论坛，并促进医疗保健系统中不同利益相关者之间的质量衡量、报告和改进的共享框架。 合作和寻找共同点的重要性正变得更加关键。NQF全国质量论坛第六届年会的主题是“利益相关者合作应对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.