DATA FOR HEALTH-CARE REFORM - A CASE OF HIGH HOPES

Expectations are running high for a massive, new data infrastructure for health care reform, according to speakers at the eighth annual meeting of the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO), ''Health Data Initiatives: 1994'', which was held in Arlington, Virginia, December 9-10, 1993. Margaret VanAmringe, Associate Director, Government Relations, and head of the Joint Commission's Washington, DC, office, and The Joint Commission Journal's Washington correspondent, filed this report on one of the conference sessions.