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Blue Ribbon Commission Projects, (E2SSB 5930)

Projects

• E2SSB 5930-1 Purchasing Quality
• E2SSB 5930-39 Prevention and Health Promotion
• Patient Decision Aids
• Quality Forum
• Emergency Room Utilization Report
• Related Sites
  • Health Insurance Partnership
  • Health Record Bank

E2SSB 5930 – Section 1, Purchasing Quality Plan

• Legislative Reports (305.1 KB)
• Breakout Session Agenda (70.3 KB)
• Meeting Materials (25.4 KB)
• New Ideas Form (148.8 KB)

E2SSB 5930 – Section 39, Prevention and Health Promotion

• Legislative Reports (241.3 KB)
• Breakout Session Agenda (70.3 KB)
• Meeting Materials (21.5 KB)
• Meeting Minutes (28.9 KB)

Patient Decision Aids

What are Patient Decision Aids and Why Would I Need One?

Patient decision aids are tools to help patients make better choices when there is more than one medically-reasonable option to diagnose or treat a health problem. Improved communication leads to more fully-informed patients.

• Breakout Session Agenda (25.7 KB)
• Meeting Materials (67.2 KB)

Quality Forum

Key Legislative Points

The Washington State Quality Forum is established within HCA. Working with the Puget Sound Health Alliance and other local organizations, the forum shall:

• Collect and evaluate research regarding health care quality, evidence-based medicine, and patient safety to promote best practices, working with the Health Technology Assessment Program and the Prescription Drug Program
• Coordinate the collection of health care quality data among state health care purchasing agencies
• Adopt a set of measures to evaluate and compare health care cost and quality and provider performance
• Identify and evaluate information regarding variations in clinical practice patterns across the state
• Produce an annual quality report detailing clinical practice patterns for purchasers, providers, insurers, and policy makers

The agencies shall report to the legislature by September 1, 2007.

• Breakout Session Agenda (26 KB)
• Meeting Materials (416.5 KB)

Emergency Room Utilization Report

The Washington State Health Care Authority and the Department of Social and Health Services shall report to the legislature by December 1, 2007, on recent trends in unnecessary emergency room ruse by enrollees in state purchased health care programs and the uninsured, and then partner with community organization and local health care providers to design a demonstration pilot to reduce such unnecessary visits.

• Breakout Session Agenda (68.7 KB)
• Meeting Materials (60.7 KB)

For more information, please contact John Williams at (360) 923-2785.