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California Clinical Quality Improvement (CQI) “Right Care” Initiative
Strategy Work Group Meeting: Heart and Diabetes

Monday, September 29, 2008
10 am to 2 pm
RAND 1776 Main Street, Main Board Room
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Dial In # 888 - 627- 7005; Conference Code: 689620
(Provided by Johnson and Johnson)

Chaired by Paul Shekelle, M.D., Director, Southern California Evidence-Based Practice Center, RAND; Professor of Medicine, UCLA; and Member, Right Care Initiative Technical Expert Group

Meeting Objective: Explore in more thorough detail components of the recommended multi-part strategy to achieve the 90th percentile goal by 2011. Agree upon action steps.

10:00am - 10:30am: Welcome, Introductions And Project Status - Dr. Paul Shekelle

”Right Care” History, Overview and Goals

Update of 2008 California Performance Relative to National 90th Percentile

10:30am - 11:15am: Mapping Performance Variation

Medical Group Patterns:

Regional Variation and Diabetes / Heart Diease Management in California Pay for Performance by Tom Williams (HTML version)
Regional Variation and Diabetes / Heart Diease Management in California Pay for Performance by Tom Williams
(PPS version)
Accelerating Improvement of the Commercial Delivery System by Neil Solomon (HTML version)
Accelerating Improvement of the Commercial Delivery System by Neil Solomon (PPS version)

Diabetes Hotspots Mapping by Nicole Lurie, MD, RAND (HTML version)

Diabetes Hotspots Mapping by Nicole Lurie, MD, RAND (PPS version)

(Mapping variation is a component of task #1 from 7-17 strategy meeting)

11:15am - 12:00pm: Community Assets to Augment Clinical Resources: Patient Self-Management and Activation

Experience in Effective Community Partnering For Patient Activation by Wells Shoemaker, MD, Medical Director, California Association of Physician Groups (HTML version)

Experience in Effective Community Partnering For Patient Activation by Wells Shoemaker, MD, Medical Director, California Association of Physician Groups (PPS version)

Spreading Effective Patient Self-Management Training Models by June Simmons, Executive Director, Partners in Care Foundation (HTML version)

Spreading Effective Patient Self-Management Training Models by June Simmons, Executive Director, Partners in Care Foundation (PPS version)

Respondent: David Sobel, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Regional Health Education, The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., Kaiser Permanente Northern California

(Patient Self-Management and Coaching: strategy items # 3 & 4-B)

12:00pm - 12:30pm: Break and serve lunch

12:30pm – 1:00pm:

Incentives & Payments Strategy by Don Rebhun, MD, Chair, Integrated Health Care Association and Regional Medical Director, HealthCare Partners (HTML version)
Incentives & Payments Strategy by Don Rebhun, MD, Chair, Integrated Health Care Association and Regional Medical Director, HealthCare Partners (PPS version)

Group Discussion (Incentives and Payments: strategy item 2)

1:00pm - 1:30pm: Potential Public Messaging Campaign: Blood Pressure

CQI Public Messenging Campaign by Sang Mi Oh, Director, State Health Alliances, American Heart & Stroke Associations; Tonya Dowd, UCLA, graduate student, Public Health (HTML version)
CQI Public Messenging Campaign by Sang Mi Oh, Director, State Health Alliances, American Heart & Stroke Associations; Tonya Dowd, UCLA, graduate student, Public Health (PPS version)

Group Discussion (strategy item 6)

1:30pm - 2:00pm: Strategy Discussion & Next Steps

1) Outcomes (What & Where); 2) Assets (Who & What); 3) Actions

What - Specific, practical actions to yield measurable results
When & By Whom

Heart and Diabetes Strategy Work Group - Notes on Eight Strategies

Press Release

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