HQPC performs the following duties related to health information technology planning:
- Monitor the effectiveness of the Idaho health data exchange.
- Make recommendations to the Legislature and the department on opportunities to improve the capabilities of health information technology in the state.
HQPC performs the following duties relating to health quality and patient safety planning:
- Analyze existing clinical quality assurance and patient safety standards and reporting.
- Identify best practices in clinical quality assurance and patient safety standards and reporting.
- Recommend a mechanism or mechanisms for the uniform adoption of certain best practices in clinical quality assurance and patient safety standards and reporting including, but not limited to, the creation of regulatory standards.
- Monitor and report appropriate indicators of quality and patient safety.
- Recommend a sustainable structure for leadership of ongoing clinical quality and patient safety reporting in Idaho.
- Recommend a mechanism or mechanisms to promote public understanding of provider achievement of clinical quality and patient safety standards.
HQPC Meetings
HQPC meets on the first Wednesday of every November, February, May, and August.