Agenda: September 9-11

Sunday, September 9, 2012 | Monday, September 10, 2012 | Tuesday, September 11, 2012
 

Sunday, September 9, 2012

9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Registration

Closed Business Sessions—these sessions are by invitation only.

10:30 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. Closed Business Session (by invitation)

• ARRA Delivery System Grantee Meeting.

12 noon - 4:00 p.m. Closed Business Session (by invitation)

• iADAPT Grantees Meeting.
• Transforming Primary Care Grantee Meeting.

1:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Closed Business Session (by invitation)

• CHOICE Grantee Meeting.

1:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Closed Business Session (by invitation)

• AHRQ Simulation Investigators Meeting.

2:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Closed Business Session (by invitation)

• Technical Assistance Roundtables for Health IT Grantees.

12:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Business Sessions

• Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Patient Experience Surveys: From Design to Implementation.

  Session Number: 128
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) Patient Experience Surveys: From Design to Implementation
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: This session will begin with a brief introduction and overview of CAHPS surveys. This will be followed by a description of how the surveys are used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in a variety of ways, such as public reporting, quality improvement, and pay for performance. Examples of how CAHPS can be used to improve patient experience and to transmit usable information to consumers will be provided.

  Speakers:	Elizabeth Goldstein, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  	Julie Brown, RAND Corporation
  	David Kanouse, RAND Corporation
  	Mark Schlesinger, Yale University

1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Exhibit Tables Setup

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Poster Setup

4:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Break

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Plenary Session

• Carolyn Clancy Unplugged: A Conversation About the Research.

  While the momentum around health care has generated an abundance of new research over the last few years, an enormous gap remains between what can improve health outcomes and what is currently being delivered to the greatest number of Americans. Join Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, for this Sunday afternoon discussion about the status and role of the research community's participation in efforts to transform the U.S. health care system. Members of the Agency's Senior Leadership Team will also be on hand to engage attendees in a discussion about current and future directions for research.

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Networking Event

• Continue the discussion afterwards at the networking event! Join Dr. Clancy and members from the Agency's Senior Leadership Team for further conversation.

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Monday, September 10, 2012

7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Registration

8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

• AHRQ's Work in Quality Measurement for Patient Safety.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 18
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: AHRQ's Work in Quality Measurement for Patient Safety
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: Improving patient safety is a centerpiece of the Nation's quality improvement efforts. AHRQ's multiple activities in quality measure development and use will be described briefly, followed by three focused presentations and discussions on measures focused on patient safety. This session will feature Patient Safety Indicators; Common Formats; Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA) Measures; and Future Directions for Convergence With Health Information Technology. Session participants will have ample time to ask questions and suggest future directions for AHRQ.

  Moderator:	Denise Dougherty, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Irene Fraser, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  	Edwin Lomotan, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  	William Munier, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  
  
• Advancing Patient Safety Through Simulation.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 83
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: Advancing Patient Safety Through Simulation
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: Simulation in health care provides a safe learning environment where practitioners can enhance their skills and test new clinical procedures without putting patients at risk. The session provides a window into three promising simulation applications: ventriculostomy practice on a VR/haptic simulator, a new method for measuring spatial skill in laparoscopic surgery, and combining cardiac surgery simulation technology with a simulation-based curriculum. It also encourages questions from the audience.

  Moderator:	Kerm Henriksen, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Richard Feins, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  	Mark Scerbo, Old Dominion University
  	Rachel Yudkowsky, University of Illinois at Chicago

  
  
• Uniting the Field and Changing the Game: The AHRQ Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 9
  Track ID: D
  Session Title: Uniting the Field and Changing the Game: The AHRQ Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Prevention and Treatment Practices for Leading Causes of Mortality
  Session Description: The AHRQ Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care serves as a national resource for people committed to delivering integrated behavioral health care in the primary care setting. In this dynamic session, members of the National Integration Academy Council (NIAC) will provide an overview of the Academy and discuss practical ways the field can use the Academy portal as a tool to become more united. In addition, this panel will address AHRQ efforts on quality measurement, workforce development, and a large national survey—all related to integration. The session will utilize social media, such as Twitter and blogging, and conclude with a brief summary from the patient's perspective.

  Moderator:	Benjamin Miller, University of Colorado Denver
  Speakers:	Neil Korsen, MaineHealth
  	CJ Peek, University of Minnesota
  Discussant:	Regina Holliday, The Walking Gallery

  
  
• Lessons Learned From Recent Quality Measurement and Health IT Grants in the Ambulatory Setting.

  Session Number: 91
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Lessons Learned From Recent Quality Measurement and Health IT Grants in the Ambulatory Setting
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: This session will serve as a platform for the summertime release of a continuum of products (final report, success stories, national webinar) for the synthesis and findings of the 17 grants which comprise the Enabling Quality Measurement (EQM) through Health IT FOA (http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HS-07-002.htm). Two EQM grantees will present their disparate assembly of lessons learned and air two 8-minute videos about two distinctively successful EQM projects.

  Speakers:

  Rebecca Roper, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  
  
• Medical Liability Reform and Patient Safety Initiative

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 101
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: Medical Liability Reform and Patient Safety Initiative
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: AHRQ awarded $25 million in funding for seven 3-year demonstration grants and thirteen 1-year planning grants to establish an initiative that would help States and health care systems test models that meet the following goals: put patient safety first and work to reduce preventable injuries; foster better communication between doctors and their patients; ensure that patients are compensated in a fair and timely manner for medical injuries, while also reducing the incidence of frivolous lawsuits; and reduce liability premiums. Two principal investigators from these grants will share their findings and insights to date, and posters from many of the grants will be available in the meeting room for audience review.

  Speakers:	David Baker, IMPAQ International
  	Thomas Gallagher, University of Washington

  
  
• Update on United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK).

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 94
  Track ID: F
  Session Title: Update on United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK)
  Session Track: Making Quality Care More Affordable Through New Health Care Financing and Delivery Models
  Session Description: USHIK description and lessons learned from establishing cooperative partnerships with Standards Developing Organizations, States, and sister agencies will be discussed in this session. This session will also provide information on how to understand the data elements in specific national use cases (All-Payers Claims Databases, Standards and Interoperability Framework, Quality Measures, and others).

  Moderator:	J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Robin Barnes, Data Consulting Group
  	Jennifer Barrett, Data Consulting Group

  
  
• Understanding the Role for the Built Environment in Safety and Quality Improvement.

  Session Number: 61
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: Understanding the Role for the Built Environment in Safety and Quality Improvement
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: This will be an interactive session during which we will present the various ways that implementation, sustainment, and success of quality improvement and patient safety activities may be affected by the built environment. Real-life examples will be presented along with the opportunity for the audience to discuss their own experiences.

  Speakers:	Douglas Kamerow, RTI International
  	James Steinberg, Emory University
  	Craig Zimring, Georgia Institute of Technology

  
  
• Multistakeholder Community Quality Collaboratives: Learning From the School of Hard Knocks.

  Session Number: 42
  Track ID: E
  Session Title: Multistakeholder Community Quality Collaboratives: Learning From the School of Hard Knocks
  Session Track: Working With Communities to Promote Wide Use of Best Practices to Enable Healthy Living
  Session Description: This session will offer a high-level review of multistakeholder community quality collaboratives. The panel will discuss challenges they have encountered and missteps they may have made, including inadequate outreach to one or more key stakeholder groups in developing or selecting measures; underbudgeting for ongoing "bread and butter" tasks of data collection and measure development; and dwindling financial contributions from key collaborative members. Panelists will share insights, alternative approaches, and lessons learned.

  Moderator:	Jan De La Mare, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Jim Chase, Minnesota Community Measurement
  	Melinda Karp, Massachusetts Health Quality Partners

  
  

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Break

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

• Long-Term Care Quality Improvement Initiatives.

  Session Number: 64
  Track ID: E
  Session Title: Long-Term Care Quality Improvement Initiatives
  Session Track: Working With Communities to Promote Wide Use of Best Practices to Enable Healthy Living
  Session Description: This session will present information on three national voluntary efforts to improve quality in nursing homes, home health, and other long-term services and supports. This session will provide an overview of the goals, organizational structures, partnerships, resource materials, and results for Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes, Long-Term Quality Alliance, and the third phase of the Home Health Quality Initiative.

  Moderator:	Judith Sangl, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Cheryl Phillips, Leading Age
  	Carol Raphael, Long Term Quality Alliance
  	Charles Schade, West Virginia Medical Institute

  
  
• Tackling Readmissions of High-Risk Medicaid Patients.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 49
  Track ID: F
  Session Title: Tackling Readmissions of High-Risk Medicaid Patients
  Session Track: Making Quality Care More Affordable Through New Health Care Financing and Delivery Models
  Session Description: Adult Medicaid patients (excluding obstetrics) have readmission rates as high as and sometimes even higher than Medicare enrollees. This becomes an urgent issue in light of State budget shortfalls and Medicaid's continual expansion. Also, hospitals serving a higher proportion of Medicaid patients are likely at greater disadvantage in value-based purchasing programs that measure readmissions. This session will discuss Medicaid readmission patterns, unique contributing factors at patient, provider, and community levels, and potential strategies for reducing readmissions.

  Moderator:	Joanna Jiang, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Amy Boutwell, Collaborative Healthcare Strategies
  	David Kelley, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
  	Marsha Regenstein, George Washington University

  
  
• Use of Health IT to Support Individuals in the Community.

  Session Number: 86
  Track ID: E
  Session Title: Use of Health IT to Support Individuals in the Community
  Session Track: Working With Communities to Promote Wide Use of Best Practices to Enable Healthy Living
  Session Description: This session will highlight progress and findings from two distinct, but related, health IT projects. One presentation will give an overview of the Active Aging Research Center and showcase its progress to date, lessons learned on key projects, as well as next steps. Another presentation will discuss findings and key recommendations from a project focused on translating lessons from consumer product design to the development of consumer health IT applications. Attendees will become more familiar with two different approaches to consumer health IT design: a community-based project that could serve as a model for enhancing independence, service coordination, and caregiver support; and a synthesis of design methods used in other industries and their relevance to consumer health IT.

  Moderator:	Kevin Chaney, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	David Gustafson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  	Enid Montague, Northwestern University

  
  
• Partnership for Patients: Reducing Readmissions and Health Care-Associated Conditions (HACs).

  Session Number: 103
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: Partnership for Patients: Reducing Readmissions and Health Care-Associated Conditions (HACs)
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: This session will focus on the two main goals of the Federal Partnership for Patients program: reducing preventable hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent and reducing 30-day readmissions by 20 percent. Progress and challenges since inception of the program will be discussed and there will be a special focus on AHRQ's role, including the use of AHRQ data in the measurement of HACs and readmissions and use of AHRQ toolkits, guides, and research findings in the implementation of programs aimed at reaching the goals of the program.

  Moderator:	William Munier, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  	Dennis Wagner, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation
  	Paul McGann, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation
  	Jack Jordan, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation

  
  
• Providing Care to People With Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC): Lessons From AHRQ's MCC Research Network.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 4
  Track ID: D
  Session Title: Providing Care to People With Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC): Lessons From AHRQ's MCC Research Network
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Prevention and Treatment Practices for Leading Causes of Mortality
  Session Description: This session will start with an overview of the AHRQ Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) Research Network followed by a panel of grantees to highlight conceptual and methodological challenges in studying people with MCC. The panel will also discuss issues and challenges in creating and disseminating public use datasets for studying this population. A selection of MCC grant projects will be presented in a "poster walkabout."

  Moderator:

  Tess Miller, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  
  
• Facilitating Medication Adherence Through Understanding the Patient's Perspective.

  Session Number: 24
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Facilitating Medication Adherence Through Understanding the Patient's Perspective
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: There is growing recognition that a patient-centered care approach may have profound implications for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of care. A further understanding of the characteristics of patient-centered care will facilitate its implementation and measurement as well as promote patient-centered care activities that could improve adherence and encourage patient responsibility for health status.

  Moderator:	Mark Hornbrook, Kaiser Permanente Northwest
  Speakers:	Bruce Lambert, University of Illinois at Chicago
  	Cynthia Rand, Johns Hopkins University

  
  
• Implementation and Outcomes of Health Care Delivery System Change.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 44
  Track ID: F
  Session Title: Implementation and Outcomes of Health Care Delivery System Change
  Session Track: Making Quality Care More Affordable Through New Health Care Financing and Delivery Models
  Session Description: This session presents early findings from three large-scale initiatives for delivery-system change. Each initiative focuses on an important objective for health care delivery system change: improving the quality of ambulatory care through public reporting; improving quality and reducing cost by enhancing care management in primary care practices; and providing comprehensive services for the severely mentally ill so as to improve their health while also reducing care costs. The presentations will provide findings on the challenges of implementing these programs and report some early findings about program outcomes.

  Moderator:	Michael Harrison, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Bryan Dowd, University of Minnesota
  	Todd Gilmer, University of California, San Diego
  	Jodi Holtrop, Michigan State University

  
  
• Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Examination of Coverage Strategies in Public and Private Plans.

  Session Number: 1
  Track ID: F
  Session Title: Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Examination of Coverage Strategies in Public and Private Plans
  Session Track: Making Quality Care More Affordable Through New Health Care Financing and Delivery Models
  Session Description: This session will focus on workers and employment-related health insurance. The papers will look at the affordability of coverage and enrollment decisions when there are alternative sources of health insurance coverage. This is important to employers, individuals, and the government in understanding how the employer-sponsored health insurance market will adjust to changes in the system introduced by health reform.

  Moderator:	Thomas Selden, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Edward Miller, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  	Jessica Vistnes, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Discussant:	Christopher Peterson, Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission

  
  
• Engaging the Public on the Use of Evidence: The Role of Public Deliberation.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 26
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Engaging the Public on the Use of Evidence: The Role of Public Deliberation
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: Public deliberation convenes members of the public or of a specific community to learn about and discuss a complex societal issue. The purpose of public deliberation is to learn from the participants and ultimately to make policy decisions that reflect their views. The AHRQ Community Forum project seeks to expand the evidence base around public deliberation and elicit informed public input on an issue highly relevant to AHRQ's Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) enterprise: how the public believes evidence should be used in health care decisionmaking. This session will introduce participants to public deliberation and describe the Community Forum Deliberative Methods experiment, which will convene 76 groups spanning 4 locations. Speakers will highlight best practices for promoting successful public deliberation.

  Speakers:	Kristin Carman, American Institutes for Research
  	Maureen Maurer, American Institutes for Research

  
  
• Health IT and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: Lessons Learned.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 95
  Track ID: D
  Session Title: Health IT and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: Lessons Learned
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Prevention and Treatment Practices for Leading Causes of Mortality
  Session Description: This session will provide an overview of the 11 AHRQ-funded research projects building a clinical electronic infrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR), and Quality Improvement (QI), and discuss challenges encountered and lessons learned to date. The session will also introduce the Electronic Data Methods Forum, which was created to advance the methods for CER analysis, clinical informatics, and governance. The session is designed to engage experts in clinical informatics, outcomes research, QI, and clinicians.

  Moderator:	Gurvaneet Randhawa, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Paul Dexter, Indiana University School of Medicine
  	Erin Holve, AcademyHealth

  
  

11:30 a.m. - 12 noon Break

12 noon - 1:00 p.m. Lunch on your own

12 noon - 1:00 p.m. Lunch and Learn Sessions

• Public Reporting: Strengthening the National Quality Infrastructure.

  This session is being considered for 1 hour of continuing education.
  Session Number: 45
  Track ID: B
  Session Title: Public Reporting: Strengthening the National Quality Infrastructure
  Session Track: Ensuring That Each Person and Family Are Partners in Their Care
  Session Description: In coordination with CMS and other HHS agencies, AHRQ is engaged in multiple approaches to improving public reporting. AHRQ's new Science of Public Reporting Initiative aims to grow the evidence base for the nascent science of public reporting, disseminate research results, and translate research into practice through tools such as the MONAHRQ public reporting software. AHRQ will also enhance the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse's HHS Measures Inventory, and create a new searchable catalog of data sources suitable for producing reporting benchmarks. Come learn more about these exciting AHRQ initiatives and how they will contribute to the science and practice of public reporting.

  Moderator:	Brent Sandmeyer, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Monique Cohen, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  	Ernest Moy, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  	Carol Sniegoski, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  	Celeste Torio, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  
  
• The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Data Resources to Inform Research and Policy.

  This session is being considered for 1 hour of continuing education.
  Session Number: 47
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) Data Resources to Inform Research and Policy
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: The purpose of this session is to provide the overview of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey with emphasis on the Household Component (MEPS HC). The session will provide information on the data collected by MEPS, description of available public use data files, information about online data tools, and type of research projects which MEPS can support. The specific goals of the session are to (1) disseminate information on the MEPS database and software tools; (2) advance the field of health care services research; (3) improve health care programs and policy via the information derived from MEPS; (4) share existing research; and (6) promote MEPS data usage. This session includes a demonstration of MEPSnet, an online tool that provides instant access to MEPS data estimates. There will be discussion of the type of research projects the MEPS data can support. This session will provide the researchers with the knowledge necessary to formulate research plans utilizing the various MEPS HC files and linkage capabilities.

  Speakers:

  Jeffrey Rhoades, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  
  
• Using Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Surveys to Monitor the Quality of Cancer Care.

  Session Number: 84
  Track ID: B
  Session Title: Using Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Surveys to Monitor the Quality of Cancer Care
  Session Track: Ensuring That Each Person and Family Are Partners in Their Care
  Session Description: This session will describe two Federal government efforts, the SEER-CAHPS data resource and cancer CAHPS, to facilitate the systematic measurement and monitoring of the quality of cancer care from the patient's perspective.

  The SEER-CAHPS data resource is an NCI-CMS collaborative project linking NCI's SEER data with annual CAHPS survey data of beneficiaries in managed care plans and in Medicare fee-for-service (FFS). Linking SEER data with CAHPS data as well as Medicare claims data for fee-for-service beneficiaries facilitates the evaluation of care experiences of elderly patients with and without cancer as well as its prevention. This presentation will describe the richness of the linked data and highlight potential research questions that can be addressed.

  Cancer CAHPS is an AHRQ-NCI collaborative project; we will describe the development of a cancer version of the CAHPS survey for monitoring patient experiences of care while receiving cancer treatment (surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy). Findings from the survey field test will be presented.

  Moderator:	Neeraj Arora, National Cancer Institute
  Speakers:	Steven Garfinkel, American Institutes for Research
  	Kathleen Yost, Mayo Clinic

  
  
• Patient Safety Reporting and ICD-11.

  Session Number: 127
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: Patient Safety Reporting and ICD-11
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently revising the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is used worldwide as the standard for coding medical conditions. For the 11th revision, a Quality and Patient Safety Technical Advisory Group (TAG) is charged with reviewing ICD-10, ICD-10CM, and progressive drafts of ICD-11 to inform the development of this next version. This session will focus on the Quality and Patient Safety TAG's efforts to identify practical modifications for ICD 11 drafts that would enable better measurement of quality and safety. During this session, you will learn about the efforts of the Quality and Patient Safety TAG to work horizontally across all ICD-11 chapters to advise on optimizing the entire classification's content, structure, and coding rules for enhanced application in both existing and potentially novel quality and safety indicators.

  Moderator:	Eileen Hogan, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Amy Helwig, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  	William Munier, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  	Donna Pickett, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  	Patrick S. Romano, University of California, Davis School of Medicine

  
  
• Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Data Resources to Inform Research and Policy.

  This session is being considered for 1 hour of continuing education.
  Session Number: 46
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Data Resources to Inform Research and Policy
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: This session will introduce the HCUP, a data resource that can answer questions about hospital inpatient, ambulatory surgery, and emergency department care, including uninsured visits. HCUP's large databases support cutting-edge health services research and policy analysis. HCUP captures information, including costs and charges, on 97 percent of the hospital stays in the United States and is the largest collection of multi-year, all-payer, encounter-level data available to researchers. Session participants will learn about (1) HCUP's powerful nationwide and State databases, (2) HCUP tools that facilitate research, (3) HCUP supplemental files, (4) HCUP reports and publications, and (5) HCUP's strong technical support. This session includes an interactive demonstration of HCUPnet, a free online query tool that provides instant access to statistics from HCUP. The presentation showcases the wide range of research interests for which HCUP is useful.

  Speakers:	P. Hannah Davis, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  	Claudia Steiner, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  
  
• Closing the Quality Gap: Evidence to Improve Health Care Quality.

  This session is being considered for 1 hour of continuing education.
  Session Number: 37
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Closing the Quality Gap: Evidence to Improve Health Care Quality
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: For every patient who receives optimal care, the evidence suggests that on average another patient does not. This "quality gap" in simple terms refers to the difference between what is expected to work well for patients based on known evidence and what actually happens in day-to-day clinical practice across populations of patients. This session is a unique opportunity to present evidence about effective strategies intended to close this "quality gap" from the eight systematic reviews that comprise AHRQ's Closing the Quality Gap series. In addition to presenting a body of work across the selected topics in the quality improvement field, presenters will also highlight themes and challenges encountered in synthesizing relevant evidence, offer actionable evidence for decisionmakers, and describe future directions for research.

  Speakers:

  Kathryn McDonald, Stanford University

  
  
• Get With the Program! Software Tools to Modernize Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses.

  This session is being considered for 1 hour of continuing education.
  Session Number: 32
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Get With the Program! Software Tools to Modernize Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are increasingly used by decisionmakers. AHRQ has invested in the development of several software tools that can help improve the efficiency of conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses. At this session, developers of these tools will demonstrate the functionality and utility of these tools for systematic reviewers and guideline developers. These tools, available for free, include Abstrackr, used to screen abstracts; OpenMeta, used to conduct meta-analyses; and SRDR, a Web-based tool used to archive systematic review data.

  Moderator:	Joseph Lau, Tufts Medical Center
  Speakers:	Nira Hadar, Tufts Evidence-based Practice Center
  	Byron Wallace, Brown University

  
  
• Exploring the Power of "Search" Using National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse™ (NQMC) Web Sites for Research.

  This session is being considered for 1 hour of continuing education.
  Session Number: 33
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Exploring the Power of "Search" Using National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) Web Sites for Research
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: The National Guideline Clearinghouse™ is the first place people go as a resource for guidelines, and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse is increasingly utilized by measure developers in their research. In this session, we will demonstrate how these two databases can be searched to help answer questions about guidelines and measures as well as its usefulness in research. Participants can test their knowledge by performing searches at the NGC/NQMC booth display in the mAHRQet Place Café.

  Moderator:	Mary Nix, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Lisa Haskell, ECRI Institute
  	Melanie Swan, ECRI Institute

  
  
• Identifying and Managing Non-Financial Conflicts of Interest.

  This session is being considered for 1 hour of continuing education.
  Session Number: 30
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Identifying and Managing Non-Financial Conflicts of Interest
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: Non-financial conflicts of interest (NFCOI), when ignored, can invalidate the findings of a systematic review. Equally, the results of a systematic review can be invalid when overly aggressive mitigation of the risk of bias from NFCOI results in a team with little or no content expertise. This session will define NFCOI, describe categories of NFCOI, and offer options for mitigating the risk of bias from NFCOI. After the panel provides an overview of the problem, the speakers and participants will work through several case examples.

  Moderator:

  Stephanie Chang, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  
  
• Improving Primary Care Through Practice Facilitation.

  This session is being considered for 1 hour of continuing education.
  Session Number: 5
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Improving Primary Care Through Practice Facilitation
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: Practice facilitation is one effective way of helping primary care practices achieve the triple aim of better patient experience, improved health, and reduced costs. In this session, participants will learn about facilitation as a tool to build quality improvement infrastructure in primary care practices and resources to help them build and run practice facilitation programs.

  Moderator:	Michael Parchman, Group Health Research Institute
  Speakers:	Lyndee Knox, L.A. Net
  	Vanessa Nguyen, L.A. Net Community Health Resource Network

  
  
• Optimizing Care for Children: A Demonstration of the Model Children's Electronic Health Record Format.

  Session Number: 129
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Optimizing Care for Children: A Demonstration of the Model Children's Electronic Health Record Format
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: This session will provide attendees with an opportunity to receive an in-depth demonstration of the Model Children's EHR Format and instruction on the various ways the Model Format can help improve care for children in their own organizations. The demonstration will cover the specific features of the Model Format and they were used to develop two different functionality prototypes.

  Moderator:	Erin Grace, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Scott Finley, Westat, Inc.

1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Break

Closed Business Session—This session is by invitation only.

1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Closed Business Session (by invitation)

• MCC Research Network Closed Meeting.

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

• Critical Decisions in the Emergency Department.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 50
  Track ID: D
  Session Title: Critical Decisions in the Emergency Department
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Prevention and Treatment Practices for Leading Causes of Mortality
  Session Description: This session will examine two questions that have the potential to have tremendous implications for the cost and outcomes of health care delivery: Where do injured patients go for treatment and when are patients admitted from the emergency department? Evidence will be presented on factors associated with variations in treatment patterns and the impacts of these decisions on patients and the health care system.

  Moderator:	Ryan Mutter, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Brendan Carr, University of Pennsylvania
  	Jesse Pines, George Washington University

  
  
• Learning From Patient Experience: Consumers' Response to Multiple Information Sources.

  Session Number: 69
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Learning From Patient Experience: Consumers' Response to Multiple Information Sources
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: This session will discuss consumers' and patients' experience using CAHPS It will also address the complexity of information presented and consumers' perception of the usefulness of CAHPS measures and other types of performance data.

  Speakers:	David Kanouse, RAND Corporation
  	Steven Martino, RAND Corporation

  
  
• Where Do You Live? Health and Health Care Disparities in Black America.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 22
  Track ID: E
  Session Title: Where Do You Live? Health and Health Care Disparities in Black America
  Session Track: Working With Communities to Promote Wide Use of Best Practices to Enable Healthy Living
  Session Description: The goal of this session is to explore how social determinants of health—where we live, work, play, and worship—influence efforts to improve the quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of health care for all Americans. Using Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data and the IOM report "Unequal Treatment" as a foundation, Dr. Brian Smedley, Director of the Health Policy Institute and Vice President, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, and a panel of public health and community experts will explore how social, economic, and environmental conditions shape health and health outcomes.

  Moderator:	Francis D. Chesley, Jr., Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Shannon Cosgrove, YMCA of the USA
  	Michael Scott, Equity Matters
  	Brian D. Smedley, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

  
  
• New Developments and Use of the Survey on Patient Safety (SOPS) Culture.

  Session Number: 111
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: New Developments and Use of the Survey on Patient Safety (SOPS) Culture
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: This session will discuss the development and initial results from a pilot study of the new AHRQ Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety Culture for use in community/retail pharmacies. In addition, results from the AHRQ Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2012 Comparative Database with data from over 900 medical offices will be presented.

  Moderator:	Diane Cousins, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Theresa Famolaro, Westat, Inc.
  	Joann Sorra, Westat, Inc.

  
  
• Leading in an Era of Health System Change.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 51
  Track ID: F
  Session Title: Leading in an Era of Health System Change
  Session Track: Making Quality Care More Affordable Through New Health Care Financing and Delivery Models
  Session Description: Health system change poses challenges for both current and future leaders, who will be called upon to sustain initial gains in care quality and population health while controlling health care cost. This session will be a dialogue with members of the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME) and the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL). Representatives from CAHME and NCHL will report on their progress to date in assessing the competency needs of future health care leaders and will invite session attendees to contribute their thoughts on these needs.

  Moderator:	Michael Harrison, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Andrew Garman, Rush University
  	John Lloyd, Commission on Accreditation in Healthcare Management Education

  
  
• Innovative Approaches for Improving Health Care Accessibility, Quality, and Patient Safety for People With Disabilities.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 21
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: Innovative Approaches for Improving Health Care Accessibility, Quality, and Patient Safety for People With Disabilities
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: This session will discuss how to improve the health care quality and patient safety of people with disabilities by testing a novel computer-based Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems-American Sign Language (CAHPS-ASL). In addition, we will be discussing smart technology and the cloud to make telehealth accessible to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We will also discuss making the CAHPS survey more accessible for direct response by consumers with cognitive and communication limitations and using human intelligence-based software.

  Moderator:	Harvey Schwartz, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Steven Barnett, University of Rochester
  	Shaun Kane, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  	David O'Hara, Westchester Institute for Human Development

  
  
• Update on Health IT Research and AHRQ's Health IT Activities.

  Session Number: 89
  Track ID: F
  Session Title: Update on Health IT Research and AHRQ's Health IT Activities
  Session Track: Making Quality Care More Affordable Through New Health Care Financing and Delivery Models
  Session Description: During this session, the Director of AHRQ's Health Information Technology (IT) Portfolio will provide both a broad look at the field of Health IT and a more detailed description of AHRQ's own Health IT activities.

  Speakers:

  P. Jon White, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

  
  
• Understanding Medical Care Costs and Utilization: Factors Associated With Access, Use, and Cost.

  Session Number: 2
  Track ID: F
  Session Title: Understanding Medical Care Costs and Utilization: Factors Associated With Access, Use, and Cost
  Session Track: Making Quality Care More Affordable Through New Health Care Financing and Delivery Models
  Session Description: This session is focused on current trends in the drivers of medical care costs and understanding the potential impact of recent changes in health care financing on factors associated with access to, and use of, essential health care services.

  Moderator:	Joel Cohen, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	James Kirby, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  	Eric Sarpong, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Discussant:	Jessica Banthin, Congressional Budget Office

  
  
• Understanding the Barriers to the Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records (EHR).

  Session Number: 92
  Track ID: F
  Session Title: Understanding the Barriers to the Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records
  Session Track: Making Quality Care More Affordable Through New Health Care Financing and Delivery Models
  Session Description: This session will provide a detailed look at the results of recent AHRQ and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) projects to understand the barriers clinicians experience when trying to meet the Meaningful Use criteria for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs.

  Moderator:	Heather Johnson-Skrivanek, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Linda Dimitropoulos, RTI International
  	Dawn Heisey-Grove, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

  
  
• Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) in Long-Term Care (LTC): Current Strategies and Challenges.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 62
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: Reducing Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) in Long-Term Care (LTC): Current Strategies and Challenges
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: This session will consist of a roundtable discussion about overcoming the challenges faced when implementing and sustaining healthcare-associated infections reduction activities in long-term care. Topics that will be presented include data and electronic health records, communication, staffing, and education and training.

  Moderator:	Debbie Perfetto, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Panelists:	Lance Peterson, NorthShore University Health System
  	Jeremiah Schuur, Brigham and Women's Hospital
  	Steven Garfinkel, American Institutes for Research
  	Jon Hirshon, University of Maryland
  	Philip Sloane, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

• How Primary Care Providers Respond to Incentives to Improve Patients' Experience.

  Session Number: 66
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: How Primary Care Providers Respond to Incentives to Improve Patients' Experience
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: This session will discuss how physicians responded to three different initiatives aimed to improve patient experience of care. In addition, they will discuss what worked well for the doctors, the challenges, and recommendations for designing such initiatives. The session will explore the impact of Pay for Performance (P4P) and educational programs on the efforts of primary care practice to improve patients' experience with care.

  Speakers:	Ronald Hays, University of California, Los Angeles
  	Lise Rybowski, The Severyn Group

  
  
• Bringing Angie's List and Yelp to Health Care: Lessons for Quality Reporting.

  Session Number: 39
  Track ID: B
  Session Title: Bringing Angie's List and Yelp to Health Care: Lessons for Quality Reporting
  Session Track: Ensuring That Each Person and Family Are Partners in Their Care
  Session Description: There is a growing appeal of Web sites like Yelp, Angie's List, etc., which collect and report patients' anecdotal narrative reviews on individual physicians and hospitals. This session will discuss public reporting of patient narratives from a legal perspective, including commentary on liability of the host report and a recent class-action lawsuit challenging providers' ability to stifle negative reviews. Are patient narrative reviews viewed as trusted and useful measures of quality? Strategies to enhance methodological rigor of measurement via patient narratives also will be reviewed.

  Moderator:	Jan De La Mare, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	David Hyman, University of Illinois
  	Mark Schlesinger, Yale University

  
  
• Planning for Research Questions: Using Systematic Reviews and Stakeholder Input to Identify Needed Research in Comparative Effectiveness.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 31
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Panning for Research Questions: Using Systematic Reviews and Stakeholder Input to Identify Needed Research in Comparative Effectiveness
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: Despite the ever-increasing number of studies published each year, our ability to answer questions about the comparative effectiveness of many tests and treatments remains limited. The Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC) program has made investments in better identifying and prioritizing the research gaps from systematic reviews to help researchers and funders of research focus their efforts on questions that will make a difference to patients, providers, payers, and policymakers. In this session, the panel will present an overview of the Future Research Needs initiative, discuss the specific steps involved in the process, including the roles of stakeholders, and then involve the audience in hands-on exercises to explore and discuss different approaches to prioritization and stakeholder engagement.

  Moderator:	Elisabeth Kato, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Timothy Carey, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  	Jeanne-Marie Guise, Oregon Health & Science University

  
  
• Challenges of Sustaining, Scaling, and Spreading Innovations in Cardiovascular Care.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 34
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Challenges of Sustaining, Scaling, and Spreading Innovations in Cardiovascular Care
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: In this session, we will explore the key elements of sustaining, scaling, and spreading innovations designed to improve cardiovascular care, which is an important priority for the National Quality Strategy. The session will feature innovators who will describe both their specific innovation and their scale and spread methods. Audience participants will consider tactical approaches for sustaining, scaling, and spreading these featured innovations in the context of their own organizations.

  Moderator:	Veronica Nieva, Westat, Inc.
  Speakers:	Hali Hammer, University of California, San Francisco
  	David Magid, Colorado Permanente Medical Group
  	Veronica Nieva, Westat, Inc.

  
  
• The Intersection of Health IT and Patient Safety—Lessons From the Field and Tools for Analysis.

  Session Number: 87
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: The Intersection of Health IT and Patient Safety—Lessons From the Field and Tools for Analysis
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: This session will focus on patient safety events related to health IT with a presentation on lessons learned and next steps for Health IT Hazard Manager 2.0. Attendees will become more familiar with tools to identify, manage, and report on Health IT hazards and events, including the Health IT Hazard Manager and AHRQ's Common Formats, to improve our understanding of Health IT-related patient safety events.

  Moderator:	Kevin Chaney, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Kathy Kenyon, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS
  	James Walker, Geisinger Health System
  	Karen Zimmer, ECRI Institute
  Discussant:	Andrea Hassol, Abt Associates

  
  
• Looking Into the Crystal Ball: Horizon Scanning to Identify Emerging Medical Interventions.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 23
  Track ID: E
  Session Title: Looking Into the Crystal Ball: Horizon Scanning to Identify Emerging Medical Interventions
  Session Track: Working With Communities to Promote Wide Use of Best Practices to Enable Healthy Living
  Session Description: AHRQ has developed a health care horizon scanning system to systematically search for and prioritize emerging medical interventions. In this session, we will describe the methods and early results from this system. We will also describe alternative systems such as the forecasting done on Wall Street to predict market winners and the use of prediction markets to leverage the wisdom of crowds. The speakers and audience will have an opportunity to weigh in on the pros and cons of the different approaches.

  Moderator:	Elise Berliner, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Karen Schoelles, ECRI Institute
  Discussants:	Peter Kolchinsky, RA Capital Management, LLC
  	Carl Kraus, Medscape/WebMD

  
  
• Lessons From Obstetric and Perinatal Safety Intervention Program (OPSIP).

  Session Number: 106
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: Lessons From Obstetric and Perinatal Safety Intervention Program (OPSIP)
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: Design and Development of an Obstetric and Perinatal Safety Intervention Program (OPSIP) for the prevention of obstetrical healthcare-acquired conditions (HACs). This is a quality improvement project.

  Moderator:	James Battles, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Stanley Davis, Fairview Health Services
  	Ann Hendrich, Ascension Health
  	Douglas Kamerow, RTI International

  
  
• Translatable Findings From Midsized AHRQ Health IT Grants.

  Session Number: 90
  Track ID: C
  Session Title: Translatable Findings From Midsized AHRQ Health IT Grants
  Session Track: Promoting Effective Communication and Coordination of Care
  Session Description: The Health IT R-21 FOA is a popular funding mechanism that provides instrumental short-term support to further test potential large-scale health IT projects. A group of disparate grantees will share their experience on the front lines, providing insight for sustainability and replicability, of their success in a fast-paced series of presentations.

  Moderator:	Rebecca Roper, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Jeph Herrin, Health Research and Educational Trust
  	David Ziemer, Emory University School of Medicine

  
  
• Improving Safety Through Teamwork: What's New From TeamSTEPPS.

  This session is being considered for 1.5 hours of continuing education.
  Session Number: 6
  Track ID: A
  Session Title: Improving Safety Through Teamwork: What's New From TeamSTEPPS
  Session Track: Making Care Safer by Reducing Harm Caused in the Delivery of Care
  Session Description: Learn about newly developed TeamSTEPPS modules and AHRQ's plans for national implementation of TeamSTEPPS, a teamwork system designed for health care professionals. AHRQ has expanded TeamSTEPPS to the ambulatory and long-term care settings and to populations with limited English proficiency. View videos and participate in role playing in this hands-on session.

  Moderator:	James Battles, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  Speakers:	Laura Maynard, North Carolina Center for Hospital Quality and Patient Safety
  	Michelle Pandolfi, Qualidigm
  	Richard Ricciardi, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. mAHRQet Place Café Networking and Poster Presentations

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Poster and Exhibit Tables Removal

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