Collaborating on Quality:
How Providers, Insurers and Regulators Came Together
to Promote Hospital Quality in Pennsylvania

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Location: Warren General Hospital, Conference Room A
(Two Crescent Park West, Warren, PA 16365)
For directions click HERE

Alternative Web Option: For the first time, ACHE|WP will offer a simultaneous web/audio conferencing option for the event!  If you'd prefer to register for the web/audio conferencing option, just check the box on the bottom of the registration form.

As our national healthcare systems become increasingly focused on pay-for-performance and transparency, it is essential that the quality of the delivery of care be measured.  As part of that assessment, it is essential for all parties to agree on what constitutes quality and how it will be captured.  This program will spotlight how Pennsylvania's Health Care Quality Alliance is providing a collaborative approach to promote meaningful quality measures, and collect and present information that will be useful to both healthcare professionals and consumers.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the benefits of a collaborative approach to quality measurement
• Determine how leveraging data from hospitals AND health plans can improve transparency
• Review challenges with risk-adjustment, hospital size and location in quality measurement
• Understand the difference between quality indicators and patient preference/decision factors
• Discuss how to "translate" health care quality measures into understandable information for consumers 

Speaker:  Erik Muther, Executive Director, PA Health Care Quality Alliance

Schedule:
5:00 PM - ACHE Advancement Information Session
5:30 PM – Registration, networking and hors d’oeuvres
6:00 PM – Speaker
7:00 PM – Q&A
(7:30 PM– approximate adjournment)