Please offer congratulations to IPRO Senior Vice President/Chief Operating Officer Harry M. Feder, who has been elected Vice Chair of URAC, effective May 1, 2018. URAC is an independent, nonprofit accreditation entity, based in Washington, DC, whose mission it is to advance healthcare quality through leadership, accreditation, measurement and innovation. URAC was founded in 1990… Continue Reading
Senior CMS Official to Speak at Annual Meeting
Dennis Wagner, a senior official in the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has accepted IPRO’s invitation to be a featured speaker at a June 5 Annual Meeting in Garden City, New York. Currently Director of the Quality Improvement & Innovation Group (QIIG) at CMS, where he supervises the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program,… Continue Reading
IPRO Expands NY Provider Search Tool
The online tool that IPRO developed on behalf of the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) to help consumers ascertain which providers participate in which health plans has been greatly expanded. It now includes information to assist more than 4.3 million individuals accessing physicians and hospital services across the state of New York. Initially… Continue Reading
ESRD Network Event Scheduled for May 17
“Working Together to Inspire Changes in ESRD Care” is the title of the IPRO-led End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network of New York’s Annual Meeting, scheduled for May 17 at the Garden City Hotel in Garden City, NY. The all-day event will feature topics including the ESRD Network Program Overview, Kidney Transplants, Home Dialysis, Vocation… Continue Reading
IPRO Announces New Consumer Panel
IPRO is developing a new consumer engagement initiative aimed at assuring that the patient experience is the focal point of the organization’s Medicare quality improvement strategy across the state of New York. The Community Advisory Panel (CAP) is envisioned as a 20- to 25-member multi-ethnic Standing Committee of the IPRO Board of Directors. The goals… Continue Reading
Save the Date: IPRO Confirms Annual Meeting Speakers
Health policy author and journalist Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, and senior federal official Dennis Wagner, will be featured speakers at IPRO’s 34th Annual Meeting, to be held June 5, 2018. Currently Editor-in-Chief of Kaiser Health News, Dr. Rosenthal was previously a health and science reporter at The New York Times. Dennis Wagner is Director of the… Continue Reading
IPRO Special Project Tackles Opioid Counseling
Recognizing that pharmacists are on the front lines of the opioid epidemic, IPRO is collaborating with the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and pharmaceutical Sciences to deliver accredited continuing education to pharmacists via webinars. Through these webinars IPRO provides education and distributes tools to enhance pharmacists’ effectiveness in counseling patients and interfacing with prescribers…. Continue Reading
IPRO Leader to Advise on Children’s Health Measures
Managed Care Senior Director Margaret Morris has been selected to join the Pediatric Value-Measurement Advisory Panel of the Washington DC-based Children’s Hospital Association. The Advisory Panel is charged with developing measures for value-based payment models that recognize the work of child health providers and networks across a variety of care settings. The Panel brings together… Continue Reading
IPRO Engagement Center Educates Seniors
IPRO’s Center for Healthcare Consumer Engagement manages one of the largest community-based self-management programs in the nation, having to date graduated more than 10,000 participants with pre-diabetes and diabetes. Following successful implementation of the Everyone with Diabetes Counts (EDC) program in New York, the Center has initiated additional educational workshop programs on nutrition, antibiotic stewardship,… Continue Reading
IPRO Joins National Leadership Panel
IPRO has been selected to join the National Quality Forum’s (NQF) National Quality Partners™ Leadership Consortium (NQP), composed of 30 NQF member organizations recognized as influencers and champions of health and healthcare quality. The Leadership Consortium provides strategic direction to shape NQP™ priorities, based on the current policy environment and a shared agenda for change…. Continue Reading