1. NCC ANNUAL
MEETING2013
Report Out
and Next Steps
February 21, 2013

2. Meeting Themes/Key Take
Aways
 Yesterday’s health plan panel
A
B
C
 Today’s dual protection panel
1
2
3

3. Provider Education Committee
 Include Ct screening measure in required
quality measures for other federally funded
programs
 Research all the federal programs with quality
measures requirement (EHR, Meaningful Use of
Data)
 Have organizations such ACOG, AAP, SAHM and
others issue a joint statement recommending that
these programs choose the CT measure as part
of their suite

4. Provider Education Committee
 Strengthen relationship with NCQA
 Pursue an acknowledgement category that has a
broader umbrella such a adolescents, or sexual
health
 Pursue rescreening measure
 State-based, targeted outreach to quality
improvement people in targeted health plans
 Re-sequence the resources in the provider
toolkit
 Screen, treat (patient), treat (partner), test
(retest), treat

5. Public Awareness Committee
(PAC)
 Two main objectives for 2013
1. Promote SHRE (pronounced as “share”) site
2. Chlamydia consumer messaging for health
plans and coalition members
 Discussed committee membership and
capacity for outreach

6. PAC: Promoting SHRE Site
 Name change from CRE  SHRE
 Step 1: Upload challenge for NCC members
 Goal:have 20 coalition member organizations
upload materials by March 31st, in preparation for
STD Awareness Month
 Rewards/recognition for those who upload
 Step 2: Promote SHRE site through networks
and among partners
 Step 3: Promote SHRE (for uploads and
downloads) through wider channels

7. PAC: Chlamydia Messages
 Purpose:
 Our proposed plan
1. Scan to see what’s available
2. Query health plan contacts and NCC members
to determine what would be valuable, seek input
from Provider Ed. Committee
3. Define core content and format(s)
4. Pre-test with consumers and professional
review with health plans and other users

8. Research Translation
Committee
 Will review responses from yesterday’s survey
 Made plans for Expert Commentaries and Hot
Topics
 Decided to include short talking points
alongside each product, which can be used for
shorter messaging
 Thesewill primarily be aimed towards a provider
audience
 Will continue to work towards maximizing
readership and impact within our NCC
audience

9. SPG: Adolescent Confidentiality
 No policy levers this group can influence at
this time
 Will continue information sharing and
awareness
Recommends integrating confidentiality
messages
into provider education and public awareness
 Recommends sharing our updates on

10. Next Steps
 Review all these great ideas and plans
 Consider in combination with time and
resource constraints
 Report out on next steps on our next,
respective committee calls