Use of Quality Measures to Improve Healthcare Delivery: Data Standards and Legal Considerations 

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
1:00-2:30 pm Eastern (12:00-1:30 pm Central; 11:00 am-12:30 pm Mountain; 10:00-11:30 am Pacific; 9:00-10:30 am Alaska; 7:00-8:30 am Hawaii)
Co-sponsored by the Health Information and Technology (HIT) Practice Group and its Emerging Uses of Health Information Affinity Group

Description

As the use of quality measurement programs expand and gain national attention, it will be critical for those engaged in advising on these programs to understand the data that drive the programs and in particular how the data sets are chosen, accessed, aggregated, measured, and used. This teleconference will also address some of the technological and legal considerations involved in structuring these programs, as well as legal challenges that programs have faced.

Presenters

• Helen Burstin, MD, MPH
  Senior Vice President for Performance Measures
  National Quality Forum, Washington, DC 
  
  
• Gary Scott Davis, Esquire
  McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Miami, FL
  
  
• Barbra G. Rabson, MPH
  Executive Director
  Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, Watertown, MA 

Moderator

• Daniel H. Orenstein, Esquire
  Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of the Board
  athenahealth Inc, Watertown, MA