Health Policy 5321 Spring 2007

 

For Friday, April 20:

1-  Review Health Policy Famework cells:
- c/m cost/ measures
- q/m quality/measures
- c/h cost/hypotheses
- a/ti access/tools: interactive, and
- q/ti quality/tools: interactive

Be able to relate these to the assignments below:

2-     Be familiar with the Utah Department of Health’s Center for Health Data.  Know what is its primary mission, what offices are in it, what kind of data these office collect, what reports they produce and services they offer.

 

3-     Be familiar with the Consumer Report on Maternity and Newborns.  Understand the kinds of information provided in the report and the key terms associated with this report.

 

Important Links:

Utah Department of Health, Center for Health Data

The Center for Health Data provides information needed to plan, implement, and evaluate interventions and programs related to the multiple goals and objectives of the Utah Department of Health. It consists of:

  • the Office of Health Care Statistics (OHCS),
  • the Office of Public Health Assessment (OPHA), and
  • the Office of Vital Records and Statistics (OVRS)

http://health.utah.gov/chd/

 

The Office of Public Health Assessment’s web portal for health data and data reports: IBIS-PH provides access to many health data reports including reports produced by the Office of Health Care Statistics under the direction of the Health Data Committee, available through the IBIS Publications Link: http://ibis.health.utah.gov/home/publications.html

 

You can also find the Office of Health Care Statistics’ Consumer Health Care Reports can be found at: http://health.utah.gov/myhealthcare/

 

Specifically the Consumer Report on Maternity and Newborns reports on: Hospital Charges, Hospital Utlization Rates, Hospital Patient Safety

You can find information about the report at:

http://health.utah.gov/myhealthcare/reports/maternity2006/aboutreport.html

You can find data from the report at: http://www.health.utah.gov/myhealthcare/reports/maternity2006/index.html#

More information can be found in the Glossary and the Technical Document

 

A general link to IBIS can be found at:

Office of Public Health Assessment, IBIS-PH- Utah's Public Health Data Resource

http://ibis.health.utah.gov/home/welcome.html

 

 

Key Terms Related to the Consumer Report on Maternity and Newborns:

 

Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ)

 

All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRGs)

 

Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs)

 

Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs)

AHRQ Guide to Inpatient Quality Indiators (UDOH Technical Document pp. 2-7)

For example: 5.23 Primary Cesarean Delivery Rate IQI 33:

            Relationship to Quality

            Benchmark

Definition

Numerator

Denominator

Type of Indicator

Empirical Performance

Empirical Rating

Summary of Evidence

 

Length Of Stay (LOS)

 

Patient Severity Level

 

Potential Advers Events

 

Senate Bill 132 (SB132)

 

Utah Office of Health Care Statistics, Utah Department of Health

 

Utah Hospital Discharge Database

 

Utah Health Data Committee

 

Terms related to Charges:

  • Costs
  • Reimbursement
  • Price and
  • Payment