CONFERENCES
National Forum on Quality
Improvement in Health Care - The premier conference on
quality improvement, the
Annual National Forum is sponsored by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and
attracts over 2,000 health care professionals.
LINKS
The
Leapfrog Group - Composed
of more than 135 public and private organizations that provide health care
benefits, The Leapfrog Group works with medical experts throughout the
U.S. to identify problems and propose solutions that it believes will
improve hospital systems that could break down and harm patients.
Representing approximately 33 million health care consumers in all 50
states, Leapfrog provides important information and solutions for
consumers and health care providers.
National
Quality Forum (NQF) - The
National Quality Forum is a not-for-profit membership organization created
to develop and implement a national strategy for healthcare quality
measurement and reporting. A shared sense of urgency about the impact of
healthcare quality on patient outcomes, workforce productivity, and
healthcare costs prompted leaders in the public and private sectors to
create the National Quality Forum as a mechanism to bring about national
change.
Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems
(IAIMS)
- The goal of this project at LUHS is to develop a plan for the integration of information
required for development of a system-wide performance management system. The planning
project is funded by the National Library of Medicine, and its intent is to bring together
in an integrated electronic environment, the clinical, research, educational and
administrative information and clinical services data elements needed to support a
geographically dispersed, integrated health care system.
Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) JCAHO strives to improve the
quality of care through the provision of health care accreditation and related services
that support performance improvement in health care organizations.
LUHS Joint
Commission Readiness
Institute for Healthcare
Improvement (IHI) is an independent, non-profit organization working to accelerate
improvement in health care systems in the United States, Canada, and Europe by fostering
collaboration, rather than competition, among health care organizations.
Health Care
Advisory Board (HCAB) serves the boards, presidents and senior executives of
more than 2,000 leading health systems and medical centers. Research focuses
principally on business and economic issues--health system strategies, revenues, cost,
governance and operations.
The
National Coalition on Health Care is the
nation’s largest and most broadly representative alliance working to improve
America’s health care. The Coalition, which was founded in 1990 and is non-profit and
rigorously non-partisan, is comprised of almost 100 groups, employing or representing
approximately 100 million Americans. Members are united in the belief that we need –
and can achieve – better more affordable health care for all Americans.
National Patient Safety Foundation
strives to improve measurably patient safety in the delivery of health care by it's
efforts to identify and create a core body of knowledge, identify pathways to apply
knowledge, develop and enhance the culture of respectivity to patient safety, and raise
public awareness and foster communications about patient safety. Related links
National Committee for
Quality Assurance (NCQA) is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to
assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans.
Intermountain Health Care
(IHC) is a charitable, nonprofit, health care organization where doctors,
hospitals, and health plans work together to provide affordable, high quality care.
Foundation for
Accountability (FACCT) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to consumer
input into healthcare. Quality tools that focus on consumer input are available at this
site.
Agency for Healthcare
Policy and Research (AHCPR) is the lead federal agency charged with supporting
research designed to improve the quality of healthcare, reduce its cost, and broaden
access to essential services.
Healthfinder
is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United
States government. At this site, you will find information regarding online publications,
clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the
government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for
the public.
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) provides information regarding the fuction of the agency,
current issues in the news, publications, software, products, and prevention guidelines.
HospitalConnect links together the Internet sites for dozens of
organizations serving health care providers.
MEDLINE Plus
Health Information is a free service that allows you to browse journals and get
access to full-text articles online.
The Virtual
Hospital is a project of the Electric Differential Multimedia Laboratory at the
Department of Radiology, University of Iowa College of Medicine. This is an excellent site
for health care professionals that contains patient care information including clinical
practice guidelines and CME distance learning. The Virtual Hospital stores, organizes, and
distributes multimedia textbooks on a wide variety of subjects. Included are search
functions, video and audio clips, and high-resolution images.
The Center for Outcomes
Research (COR) provides data management and statistical support for the ALS
Patient Care Database, the Hip & Knee Registry, and the Glioma Outcomes Project. The
mission of the COR is to assist physicians and professional medical associations in
developing national voluntary databases of health outcomes.
