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To inform about the Forum’s unique capacity to define chronic disease at the zip code level

Vision. The Forum strives to prepare the health system in the United States to provide optimal health care for a diverse society. Our Conversation Today. To inform about the Forum’s unique capacity to define chronic disease at the zip code level

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To inform about the Forum’s unique capacity to define chronic disease at the zip code level

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  1. Vision. The Forum strives to prepare the health system in the United States to provide optimal health care for a diverse society.

  2. Our Conversation Today To inform about the Forum’s unique capacity to define chronic disease at the zip code level To support the Diabetes Care Project in South Texas

  3. About the National Minority Quality Forum A DC-based, healthcare organization dedicated to the elimination of health disparities. The Forum has developed a comprehensive database comprised of over 800 million patient records to define disease prevalence, costs, and outcomes at the zip code level. Our database is used to inform, support, and catalyze advocacy, educational, marketing, and public relations activities

  4. National Minority Quality Forum Disease Based Indexes We consolidate these data by zip code into user-friendly, web-based disease indexes. Users can: Map any chronic disease by prevalence, cost, outcomes, co morbidities, socioeconomic status, Rx drug use, etc. for any state, MSA, congressional and state legislative districts Define where the unmet needs exist by identifying undiagnosed and uncontrolled populations Forecast trends

  5. National Minority Quality Forum Key Findings

  6. National Minority Quality Forum Health Care Market Has Structure Geography Matters There are geographical bound health care market places in the United States that exhibit stable consumption patterns from one year to the next.

  7. National Minority Quality Forum Stable Consumption Patterns Forces that Shape Markets These consumption patterns are the product of consistencies in the incidence and prevalence of diseases, underlying consistencies in patient response to those diseases, practices variation, and uniformity in the ways in which the health care financing and delivery system responds to patient needs.

  8. National Minority Quality Forum Consumption Patterns Can be Shaped Critical Intelligence This stability is knowable, predictable and algorithms can be built that can anticipate consumption patterns.

  9. National Minority Quality Forum Health Care in the 21st Century The Value Proposition An understanding of these consumption patterns can improve management of health care resources.

  10. Diabetes Consumption Patterns

  11. Medicare Diabetes, McAllen, Texas 2006

  12. Contribution of each year 2000 cluster to the overall cost of inpatient care

  13. National Minority Quality Forum Support marketing activities

  14. National Minority Quality Forum Support advocacy efforts www.padcoalition.com

  15. National Minority Quality Forum Support publication strategies

  16. National Minority Quality Forum Support policy www.ipabactioncenter.org

  17. National Minority Quality Forum Support public relations

  18. National Minority Quality Forum Support clinical research

  19. National Minority Quality Forum Diabetes in South Texas, Prevalence Source:

  20. National Minority Quality Forum Defining uncontrolled diabetes by the numbers (National, South Texas) South Texas National 10.88% 25.3% 59.7% 25.1% Prevalence Uninsured Diabetics Hospitalized Diabetes Control 8.95% 11.4% 54.6% 23.1%

  21. National Minority Quality Forum South Texas Diabetes Reporter www.diabetescareproject.com

  22. National Minority Quality Forum National Minority Health Month: A Pacing Event

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