Community Measurement News & Information

2008 MN Community Measurement Forum – Connecting the Dots: Does Reporting for Results Matter?
On April 16-17, 2008, MN Community Measurement convened its second annual measurement forum. The forum was held at Windows on Minnesota in downtown Minneapolis and attended by over 180 healthcare professionals from around the state and beyond. The program included a half-day of workshops followed by a full-day of forum presentations. Featured speakers included Lois Quam, managing director at Piper Jaffray and Janet Corrigan, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, in addition to a variety of workshop leaders, session presenters, and a final panel discussion. Click on the icons below to view the program, presentations and pictures from the 2008 Forum:

Forum Program
Beth Averbeck – Care Improvement
Gisele Bouroncle  – Challenges and Best Practices
Yiscah Bracha – Obtaining Patient Social Identity Data During the Workflow
Greg A. Brown – Outcomes in Orthopaedic Surgery: Back to the Future
Janet M. Corrigan – The National Quality Agenda: Leveraging Our Collective Efforts
Sandra Eliason – Why Collect Race & Ethnicity Data
Michelle Ferrari/Heather Britt  –  A Pilot to Measure Patient Experience of Care in Minnesota
Jennifer Hines – Improving Our Results.MN Community Measurement Forum 2008
Nancy Jaeckels/Gary Oftedahl – How to Create a Culture of Quality
Loie Lenarz – What’s in a Number: Why Our Patient Demographics Matter
Conrad L. Mallett – DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital’s Expecting Success Journey
Mike McAvoy – Standards for Relationships with the Pharmaceutical Industry
Alison H. Page – Minnesota Adverse Health Event Reporting
Brian Rank – Transparency in Pharmaceutical Payments
Jerri Hiniker/Dana Soderlund – Building a Quality Measurement System
Carrie Trygstad/Dianne Eggen/Joel Walker – MNCM Depression Measures for Primary Care
Penny Wheeler – Minnesota Community Measures and Care System Change
Donna Zimmerman/Beth Averbeck – Toward Equity: Addressing Disparities in Care

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MN Community Measurement Featured on KARE 11 News
Originally Aired: February 14, 2008. KARE 11 News featured MN Community Measurement as part of its Extra report on health care quality ratings. Rick Kupchella reports on MN Community Measurement’s diabetes measure and how clinics in Minnesota are measuring up.

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Archived 2007 Health Care Quality Report Webcast
Originally Aired: November 1, 2007 Jim Chase, executive director of MN Community Measurement, and Brian Anderson, MD, MSc, FACC, chair of the MN Community Measurement board, present findings from the 2007 Health Care Quality Report, discuss MN Community Measurement’s 2007 initiatives and offer a look ahead at 2008.

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Webcast Q&A

Direct Data Submission (DDS) Guide 2008
The following document outlines the guidelines for submitting data to MN Community Measurement for the Optimal Diabetes Care and Optimal Vascular Care measures for 2007 dates of service.

2008 DDS Guide

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