Quality Outcomes Reporting:

Getting Ready for HRSA's New Requirements

The Medical Directors Conference at this year’s BMT Tandem Meetings will provide information to help transplant centers comply with HRSA’s new treatment outcomes reporting requirements.  Speakers will address HRSA mandates, ASBMT objectives, lessons learned in solid organ outcomes reporting, CIBMTR data standards and submission requirements, and recommendations for cost-effective implementation by transplant centers.  

The Medical Directors Conference will be Sunday afternoon, Feb. 11.

Under the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program enacted by Congress in 2005, the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) will collect and maintain a standardized database of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants performed in U.S. transplant centers.  The program requires submission of information about patient outcomes to a new national Stem Cell Therapeutic Outcomes Database.  

 
"The outcomes database will provide physicians, scientists, policy makers and patients with the information they need to make the best possible clinical decisions, but it also will require transplant centers to make changes in the way they collect and report data," said Dr. Roy Jones, chair of the ASBMT Committee on Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Quality Outcomes and chair of this year’s Medical Directors Conference.
 
The conference presentations and speakers are:

ASBMT, the C.W. Bill Young Transplantation Act,

and Quality Outcome Reporting:  An Update

1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 11

Introduction

      Roy B. Jones, MD, PhD

      M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

Solid Organ Transplantation and Outcomes Reporting:  An Analysis

      Ian Jamieson

      Shands Transplant Center, Gainesville

AGNIS:  A Growable Network for Information Sharing

      Dennis Confer, MD

      National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis

CIBMTR and the Stem Cell Transplantation Outcomes Database (SCTOD)

      J. Douglas Rizzo, MD, MS

      Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Milwaukee

How Can Centers Respond?

– General

      Patrick Stiff, MD

      Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago

– Informatics

      Roy B. Jones, MD, PhD

Although targeted to transplant center medical directors, the conference is open to all BMT Tandem Meetings registrants.