2000 AAHP Institute Forum: Tools & Tactics for Quality Improvement

To highlight the activities taking place as a part of TOD, the Program Office developed a forum titled, Taking on Diabetes: Tools and Tactics for Quality Improvement, that was presented at AAHP's Annual Institute, June 4-7, 2000 in Orlando, Florida. The forum featured an overview of the Initiative and the tools it offers health plans as they work to improve health care quality for people with diabetes, as well as presentations by several AAHP member health plans and other organizations that have been involved in the Initiative's frontline activities.

The forum was presented on Wednesday, June 7. The session included:

• An overview of the Initiative . presented by Peter Fitzgerald, MSc, Director, Quality Measurement and Health Services Research, AAHP(PDF)
  
• The ADA perspective on health plans, diabetes care, and diabetes quality improvement goals . Marian Parrott, MD, Vice President of Clinical Affairs, ADA(PDF)
  
• The health plan perspective on diabetes care and quality improvement . George Isham, MD, Chief Health Officer, HealthPartners/Chair of the TOD Advisory Group
  
• A description of TOD's purchaser and community partnership components . Jill Arent, Senior Analyst, Medical Affairs/TOD Program Manager, AAHP
  
• The experience of the Albuquerque, New Mexico community partnership and common guideline project and discussion of how health organizations in that community have come together to work collaboratively to improve quality community-wide . Steven Ryter, MD, FAAP, Corporate Medical Director/Chief Medical Officer, Health Care Horizons (PDF)
  
• The role of peer review organizations in improving quality and performance measurement under QISMC . Ferdinand Richards, III, MD, Medical Director, Florida Medical Quality Assurance, Inc.
  
• The federal perspective on diabetes care and the work of the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) . Faye Wong, MPH, RD, Associate Director for Diabetes Education, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)