"Rebooting Evaluation: From Tedious Exercise to Essential Change Agent"
Event Description:
Speaker: Dr. Toni Watt, Professor of Sociology at Texas State University
Whether you have only started to dip your toe in the outcome-based evaluation pool or you are mid to upstream in moving to a program evaluation plan that will enable you to provide the highest quality service you can to your clients, this session will help you calculate where you are in the design and implementation of a strong, information-rich evaluation effort and identify the next steps in reaching that goal. With the Affordable Care Act ultimate goal of high quality health care for everyone in a marketplace environment of consumer choice, it will be vital for agencies to be able to show effective, affordable outcomes, and that can only be done through strong, outcome-based evaluation.
Our expert for this intensive session is Dr. Toni Watt, Professor of Sociology at Texas State University, who has years of experience in assisting providers with the design of their evaluations. Most recently she has served as the statewide evaluation consultant to the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health’s Integrated Health Care Planning and Implementation Grantees and is thus ideally suited to provide BHACA with training grounded in an understanding of the ACA and integrated health care in particular.
This training is targeted at any and all staff who will be working on the design (based on your agency's mission and outcome goals), data collection (instrument selection/creation and data collection and entry), and data analysis (interpretation and reporting) for your agency.
Event Agenda: click here.
PowerPoint Slides: click here.
Event Handouts:
Helpful Resources: click here.
Evaluation Unplugged – a take home tool for first steps in creating an evaluation plan at your agency: click here.
Event Video:
Speaker: Dr. Toni Watt, Professor of Sociology at Texas State University
Whether you have only started to dip your toe in the outcome-based evaluation pool or you are mid to upstream in moving to a program evaluation plan that will enable you to provide the highest quality service you can to your clients, this session will help you calculate where you are in the design and implementation of a strong, information-rich evaluation effort and identify the next steps in reaching that goal. With the Affordable Care Act ultimate goal of high quality health care for everyone in a marketplace environment of consumer choice, it will be vital for agencies to be able to show effective, affordable outcomes, and that can only be done through strong, outcome-based evaluation.
Our expert for this intensive session is Dr. Toni Watt, Professor of Sociology at Texas State University, who has years of experience in assisting providers with the design of their evaluations. Most recently she has served as the statewide evaluation consultant to the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health’s Integrated Health Care Planning and Implementation Grantees and is thus ideally suited to provide BHACA with training grounded in an understanding of the ACA and integrated health care in particular.
This training is targeted at any and all staff who will be working on the design (based on your agency's mission and outcome goals), data collection (instrument selection/creation and data collection and entry), and data analysis (interpretation and reporting) for your agency.
Event Agenda: click here.
PowerPoint Slides: click here.
Event Handouts:
Helpful Resources: click here.
Evaluation Unplugged – a take home tool for first steps in creating an evaluation plan at your agency: click here.
Event Video:
Links to Helpful Resources: Behavioral Healthcare, Outcome-Based Evaluation Measures and Metrics, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Associated Health Reform
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS.gov) – 2014 Clinical Quality Measures:
http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/2014_ClinicalQualityMeasures.html
--> Eligible Professionals (EP) Clinical Quality Measures: http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/EP_MeasuresTable_Posting_CQMs.pdf
National Quality Forum (NQF) – The concept of meaningful use was developed by NQF, and their stamp of
approval on a measure is currently associated with CMS endorsement. NQF Measures, Reports, and Tools: http://www.qualityforum.org/Measures_Reports_Tools.aspx
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) – an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It is a database and website for
information on evidence-based health care quality measures and measure sets. Click here to go to a tool that helps you SEARCH for applicable measures: http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/search/advanced-search.aspx
SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions – Screening Tools:
http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/clinical-practice/screening-tools
How are health plans measuring performance/ outcomes? The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information
Set (HEDIS) is a tool used by more than 90 percent of America's health plans to measure performance on
important dimensions of care and service. Altogether, HEDIS consists of 75 measures across 8 domains of care.
More info.: http://www.ncqa.org/HEDISQualityMeasurement.aspx
Institute for Healthcare Improvement – The IHI Triple Aim Initiative:
http://www.ihi.org/Engage/Initiatives/TripleAim/Pages/default.aspx
Meaningful Use and Health Information Technology in the Context of Behavioral Health:
A 2012 study by The National Council for Behavioral Health assessing 500 behavioral health organizations nationally regarding health information technology and readiness for meaningful use:
http://www.thenationalcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/HIT-Survey-Full-Report.pdf
Feeling like you would prefer a narrative description after reviewing the above websites? The American Bar Association offers a couple of primers/ refreshers that clarify the effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on behavioral healthcare, specifically regarding outcomes (see second link immediately below):
--> ACO mission: Behavioral Healthcare Under the Medicare Shared Savings Program http://www.americanbar.org/content/newsletter/publications/aba_health_esource_home/aba_health_law_esource_1106_aco_ries.html
--> Healthcare Reform and Mental Health (scroll down to "Ready, Set, Report")
https://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/aba_health_esource_home/Ries.html
General Trends: Raising the Bar for Outcomes
--> The Excellence in Mental Health Act: On March 31, 2014, Congress passed the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (H.R. 4302), which included a demonstration program based on the Excellence in Mental Health Act.
http://www.thenationalcouncil.org/topics/excellence-in-mental-health-act/
--> Executives Leading Outcomes: a paper recommended by the National Council for Behavioral Health – Swensen S, Pugh M, McMullan C, Kabcenell A. High-Impact Leadership: Improve Care, Improve the Health of Populations, and Reduce Costs. IHI White Paper. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2013. (Available at www.ihi.org)
http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/2014_ClinicalQualityMeasures.html
--> Eligible Professionals (EP) Clinical Quality Measures: http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/EP_MeasuresTable_Posting_CQMs.pdf
National Quality Forum (NQF) – The concept of meaningful use was developed by NQF, and their stamp of
approval on a measure is currently associated with CMS endorsement. NQF Measures, Reports, and Tools: http://www.qualityforum.org/Measures_Reports_Tools.aspx
National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) – an initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It is a database and website for
information on evidence-based health care quality measures and measure sets. Click here to go to a tool that helps you SEARCH for applicable measures: http://www.qualitymeasures.ahrq.gov/search/advanced-search.aspx
SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions – Screening Tools:
http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/clinical-practice/screening-tools
How are health plans measuring performance/ outcomes? The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information
Set (HEDIS) is a tool used by more than 90 percent of America's health plans to measure performance on
important dimensions of care and service. Altogether, HEDIS consists of 75 measures across 8 domains of care.
More info.: http://www.ncqa.org/HEDISQualityMeasurement.aspx
Institute for Healthcare Improvement – The IHI Triple Aim Initiative:
http://www.ihi.org/Engage/Initiatives/TripleAim/Pages/default.aspx
Meaningful Use and Health Information Technology in the Context of Behavioral Health:
A 2012 study by The National Council for Behavioral Health assessing 500 behavioral health organizations nationally regarding health information technology and readiness for meaningful use:
http://www.thenationalcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/HIT-Survey-Full-Report.pdf
Feeling like you would prefer a narrative description after reviewing the above websites? The American Bar Association offers a couple of primers/ refreshers that clarify the effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on behavioral healthcare, specifically regarding outcomes (see second link immediately below):
--> ACO mission: Behavioral Healthcare Under the Medicare Shared Savings Program http://www.americanbar.org/content/newsletter/publications/aba_health_esource_home/aba_health_law_esource_1106_aco_ries.html
--> Healthcare Reform and Mental Health (scroll down to "Ready, Set, Report")
https://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/aba_health_esource_home/Ries.html
General Trends: Raising the Bar for Outcomes
--> The Excellence in Mental Health Act: On March 31, 2014, Congress passed the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (H.R. 4302), which included a demonstration program based on the Excellence in Mental Health Act.
http://www.thenationalcouncil.org/topics/excellence-in-mental-health-act/
--> Executives Leading Outcomes: a paper recommended by the National Council for Behavioral Health – Swensen S, Pugh M, McMullan C, Kabcenell A. High-Impact Leadership: Improve Care, Improve the Health of Populations, and Reduce Costs. IHI White Paper. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2013. (Available at www.ihi.org)