The Baseline for Advancing Equity
Collecting data from patients about their income, education, race, ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, health literacy and other demographic information will enable health care providers and systems to better understand individual patient needs as well as identify and address disparities at a population level.
Since 2012, Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) have integrated activities to advance health equity as part of the state’s innovative Continue reading
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has issued a Roadmap for Promoting Health Equity and Eliminating Disparities. Despite overall improvements in Continue reading
This report summarizes the work to date and identifies future opportunities for Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) to advance health Continue reading
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has released a draft report, A Roadmap to Reduce Health and Healthcare Disparities through Measurement. Continue reading
This coming Sunday April 30 is the deadline for submitting comments to the Office of Management and Budget in support Continue reading
The Office of Management and Budget has published a second request for comments about potential changes to the 1997 standards Continue reading
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is seeking public comments on several long-awaited changes to the 1997 federal standards Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) has published a compendium of state-sponsored Continue reading
