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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE |
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Title 12. HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH |
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Chapter 1002. TEXAS INSTITUTE OF HEALTH CARE QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY |
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Subchapter C. POWERS AND DUTIES |
Sec. 1002.101. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
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The institute shall make recommendations to the legislature on:
(1) improving quality and efficiency of health care delivery by:
(A) providing a forum for regulators, payors, and providers to discuss and make recommendations for initiatives that promote the use of best practices, increase health care provider collaboration, improve health care outcomes, and contain health care costs;
(B) researching, developing, supporting, and promoting strategies to improve the quality and efficiency of health care in this state;
(C) determining the outcome measures that are the most effective measures of quality and efficiency:
(i) using nationally accredited measures; or
(ii) if no nationally accredited measures exist, using measures based on expert consensus;
(D) reducing the incidence of potentially preventable events; and
(E) creating a state plan that takes into consideration the regional differences of the state to encourage the improvement of the quality and efficiency of health care services;
(2) improving reporting, consolidation, and transparency of health care information; and
(3) implementing and supporting innovative health care collaborative payment and delivery systems under Chapter 848, Insurance Code.