A group of technical experts will provide insight and guidance to the Joint Commission to help the organization maximize support offered to accredited hospitals as part of a new Pioneers in Quality Advisory Panel, announced Monday.
The 14-person panel will also help the Joint Commission assist hospitals in using electronic clinical quality measures to benchmark and improve overall care quality.
Listed below are the names and organizations of the new panel members.
- David W. Baker, MD, executive vice president of healthcare quality evaluation of the Joint Commission
- Jennifer Besch, director of population health of Cerner
- Zahid Butt, MD, CEO of hospital software developer Medisolv
- Jayne Hart Chambers, senior vice president of quality of the Federation of American Hospitals
- Paul Conlon, PharmD, senior vice president for chief quality and patient safety of Trinity Health (Linova, Mich.)
- Nancy Foster, vice president for quality and patient safety policy of the American Hospital Association
- Thomas French, system director of clinical analytics in the division of clinical effectiveness and quality of Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services
- Steve Horner, BSN, RN, vice president of clinical analytics of the Hospital Corporation of America
- Deborah Krauss, BSN, RN, nurse consultant in the division of electronic and clinician quality in CMS' Center for Clinical Standards and Quality
- Kevin Larsen, MD, medical director of meaningful use of HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
- Lynn Lenker, BSN, RN-BC, system chief nursing information officer of SSM Health Care (St. Louis)
- Helen Lindsay Macfie, Pharm D, chief transformation officer and certified lean leader of MemorialCare Health System (Fountain Valley, Calif.)
- John S. Pirolo, MD, senior vice president and chief medical information officer of Ascension (St. Louis)
- Cindy Tourison, acting director of the CMS Division of Quality Measurement, Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group
"The combined expertise of this outstanding group will better inform our efforts and benefit hospitals who need real world solutions," said David W. Baker, MD, executive vice president of the Joint Commission's Division of Health Care Quality Evaluation. "We are steadfastly focused on developing viable solutions to the measurement-related issues that hospitals are facing."
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