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Since 1990, Margaret E. O'Kane has served as president of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), an independent, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to improve the quality of healthcare everywhere. Under O'Kane's leadership, NCQA has developed broad support among the employer and health plan communities; today many Fortune 100 companies will do business only with NCQA-accredited health plans. About three quarters of the nation's largest employers use Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) data to evaluate the plans that serve their employees. O'Kane was named Health Person of the Year in 1996 by the journal Medicine & Health. She also received a 1997 Founder's Award from the American College of Medical Quality, recognizing NCQA's efforts to improve managed care quality. In 1999, O'Kane was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine. In 2000, she received the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Champion of Prevention award, the agency's highest honor. CDC names a Champion of Prevention infrequently and only when an individual has made a truly notable contribution to advancing preventive healthcare. O'Kane began her career in healthcare as a respiratory therapist and has a master's degree in health administration and planning from Johns Hopkins University.
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Acreditación , Atención a la Salud/normas , Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/normas , Garantía de la Calidad de Atención de Salud , Prioridades en Salud , National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division , Gestión de la Calidad Total , Estados UnidosAsunto(s)
Atención a la Salud/normas , Internet/organización & administración , Edición/organización & administración , Garantía de la Calidad de Atención de Salud/métodos , Humanos , Internet/estadística & datos numéricos , Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/normas , Edición/estadística & datos numéricos , Estados UnidosAsunto(s)
Acreditación/normas , Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/normas , Defensa del Paciente/legislación & jurisprudencia , Garantía de la Calidad de Atención de Salud/legislación & jurisprudencia , Humanos , Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/legislación & jurisprudencia , Formulación de Políticas , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
In this time of intensified cost-containment pressures and low funding for behavioral healthcare services, organizations are particularly sensitive to externally imposed requirements that add expense and administrative burden. As a tradeoff, the contribution of such requirements to the overall quality of behavioral health services is vitally important. The requirements of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) have stimulated many intensely felt reactions among a wide range of managed behavioral healthcare stakeholders, undoubtedly because of the substantial impact those requirements are creating. The reactions portrayed in this dialogue section, from representatives of the payor, purchaser, provider and consumer communities and from NCQA itself, indicate the ambivalence stakeholders have toward the quality-assurance movement.
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Acreditación/organización & administración , Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/normas , Servicios de Salud Mental/normas , Garantía de la Calidad de Atención de Salud/organización & administración , Acreditación/normas , Guías como Asunto , Humanos , Sistemas de Información , Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations , Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/economía , Programas Controlados de Atención en Salud/legislación & jurisprudencia , Trastornos Mentales/fisiopatología , Trastornos Mentales/terapia , Servicios de Salud Mental/economía , Servicios de Salud Mental/legislación & jurisprudencia , Estados UnidosRESUMEN
Report cards for healthcare services are increasingly in the news, offering the hope that objective information on the quality of health plan and providers services will eventually enable purchasers and consumers to make selections based on true value. Following is a series of five brief articles that review ongoing report card initiatives in private and public sectors of the behavioral healthcare system. The first four articles review actual report cards designed to hold organizations--particularly managed care--accountable for the quality of their services. The last article reviews research on performance measurement across all segments of the behavioral healthcare industry.