Breakfast Forum on International Health Care Quality Measurement Efforts Monday, June 7, 2004
7:30 am – 8:30 am, Pacific time
International Perspectives on Quality Improvement:
A Report on the Commonwealth Fund’s International Working Group on Quality Indicators
Join experts on the front lines of the international effort to establish standards for measuring the quality of health care across nations in a June 7 breakfast briefing and discussion during the AcademyHealth annual research meeting.
Members of The Commonwealth Fund’s International Working Group on Quality Indicators will outline their recently completed work, reported in the May/June issue of Health Affairs, as well as review the group’s newly released report to the health ministers of the five participating countries. That report includes detailed country-by-country data on the various quality indicators studied. The briefing and discussion will be videotaped and made available later in the day via the Fund’s Web site, www.cmwf.org.
Established in 1999, The Commonwealth Fund’s International Working Group on Quality Indicators is a critical step forward in the development of international measures of health care quality. This unique collaboration and technical exchange brought together representatives of five industrialized countries-Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States-committed to the development of a set of indicators to help benchmark and compare health care system performance across countries while helping clinical leaders and policymakers identify areas for improvement.
In addition to government officials, Working Group members included leading academic experts in quality measurement, representatives from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the World Health Organization (WHO), The Nuffield Trust, the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation, and The Commonwealth Fund.
Program Moderator: Robin Osborn, Director, Program in International Health Policy and Practice, The Commonwealth Fund
Panelists:
* Arnold Epstein, MD, Harvard School of Public Health
* Philip Davies, Australian Department of Health and Ageing
* Colin Feek, Ministry of Health, New Zealand
* John Millar, MD, Population Health and Surveillance, Provincial Health Services Authority, Canada
Location:
Garden Salon Two
Town and Country Hotel and Resort
San Diego, CA
A continental breakfast will be served.
For more information, visit The Commonwealth Fund’s Web site, www.cmwf.org, or contact:
Olivia Ralston
212-606-3852 (office)
or@cmwf.org
Bill Silberg
212-606-3841 (office)
917-679-2743 (cell)
wms@cmwf.org
Mary Mahon
212-606-3853 (office)
917-225-2314 (cell)
mm@cmwf.org