Collecting and using patient data to improve care for diverse populations
Some themes being discussed by the group include:
a) National efforts to standardize patient demographic data requirements
b) What categories used to report patient characteristics
c) Staffing challenges related to improving patient demographic data collection processes
d) Health IT challenges and opportunities related improving data collection
e) Communication strategies to inform hospital system staff and patients about improved patient demographic data
f) Using patient demographic data to properly design, allocate and evaluate services
g) Mechanisms and platforms used to tie patient demographic data to quality data
h) Quality metrics to identify equitable health care practices
i) Quality improvement approaches to eliminate identified health care disparities
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