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board
Our directors bring together multi-faceted array of
experience with health system metric standards, including PQRS, NCQA,
NQF & CG-CAHPS. Our roundtable of experts realize our
viewpoint that both provider and patient experience must be considered
when evaluating program effectiveness.
Maureen Booth
Director, Quality Management Program Area
Senior Research Associate
Areas of Expertise:
Quality systems for managed care programs, particularly for Medicaid
and Medicare; medical errors and adverse events.
Research Interests:
Maureen Booth is Director of the Quality Management and Improvement
Program within the Institute for Health Policy and in this capacity
she oversees all quality-related projects. Maureen has been
providing technical assistance to the State of Maine and the New
England States Consortium on the design of quality management
systems for managed care programs serving the dually eligible
population. In this capacity, Maureen has overseen the modification
and pilot testing of the CAHPS survey instrument for administration
to dually eligible older persons.
Maureen has also served as a fellow at the
National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) where she has been
working with HCFA on the design of quality oversight systems for
both the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Recent projects that
Maureen has conducted with NASHP include:
- Staff support to
HCFA's national Quality Care Group that oversaw the development of
QISMC's set of standards and reviewer guidelines for monitoring the
quality of care provided to Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries
enrolled in managed care;
- Staff support to a NASHP-sponsored task force to advise
HCFA in the development of safeguards for vulnerable populations
enrolled in managed care as required by The Balanced Budget Act of
1997;
- Conducting site visits of state-sponsored managed care
programs serving children with special health care needs;
- Examination of State-based reporting systems of adverse
events and medical errors.
Mark M. Davis, M.D.
Director, Pediatric Quality
Initiative
- Senior Pediatrician and
Associate Director in the Laboratory for Neonatal Research at Boston
Hospital for Women.
- Founding Chairman of Pediatrics for the Penn State University
College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa.
- Primary research Pediatric Quality Initiative
- NQF Panel - Pediatrics
Nicholas Booth
Director, Quality Reporting
Health System Metric Informatics
Areas of Expertise:
Systems Analyst - IT infrastructure for Health
System Metrics (PQRS, eRX and NQF)
RAS Analyst - Reliability, Availability & Serviceability
Research Interests:
Nicholas has designed and implemented IT
infrastructure for field service support for Intel and IBM,
implementing various systems to measure effectiveness of alternative
service processes which embrace functional subsystems that include
automated data validation, data recording threading algorithms, and
remote diagnostics.
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