Hcs/532 Week 4

The degree to which health care is required to integrate can only be sustained in an environment that embraces formal data governance. Within care provider systems, integration is required to consistently identify a patient to enable quality measurement, clinical decision support, performance measurement and analysis. Between care provider systems comprising the continuum of care, integration is required to recognize the same patient and collaborate to improve the health of a patient population. And across providers and payers integration is required to forge new models of payment based on accountability and

Throughout the process, get the continuous data collection, and document the data. The purpose of the implementing is supporting the patient to reach desired outcomes by promoting/restoring health, preventing illness, and facilitate coping with altered function. According to Mr. Robert McClelland nursing diagnosis, following interventions and rationales are needed for his care plan.

We must filter and customize that downloaded data for the health conditions that we primarily try to improve. Once data is customized and filtered properly, it gives us “care gaps”. Those care gaps can be easily closed out by accessing patient’s EMR or by referral. This updated data then gets uploaded back to the healthcare insurance company data set for reporting purpose. Data analytics helps health profession close the care gaps and improv care coordination between

Learning Team Discussion In this summary, the team discusses the association between risk and quality management and their impact on health outcomes. Risk management is the recognition of anything or anyone who can cause harm to an organization. An example of a risk of an organization is finances or a technical deficiency. Quality management aims to find the motive of risks and develop a plan for the betterment of quality care for the patient.

The Chief Information Officer is responsible for generating statistical data and gathering meaningful use data on patients. The Health Information Management Specialist is involve with meaningful use data input. Describe the statistical reports generated by the health information department. Only meaningful use: Smoking, Lipid Entry, Diabetes, and PHI Log

This is to assess the patient’s health status when they first come in. This also gives the nurse a broad database which is needed to evaluate the patient’s health status

And with the best data available, medical professionals will be able to compare data better, advance research initiatives, make more informed decisions, identify public health issues, and process claims

At the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center we use the Baldrige framework of excellence and a lean sigma method of performance improvement to make data driven decisions regarding the five areas of organizational excellence. The five areas of excellence include population health, patient experience, workforce excellence, financial stewardship, and service to the community. The VA has an unparalleled array of programs (dashboards) where data is gathered, critically analyzed and compared with established goals or targets. The programs report on all aspects of quality and safety, both in an inpatient and outpatient setting with implementing and evaluating actions put into place. There are four inpatient core measurement sets evaluated for quality at the VAMC and they are Acute

403 1. The difference between the following terms are: Strategic management is the process of assigning responsibility to implement and monitor the activities that must be accomplished to reach the goal. Strategic planning is a method used to define the tasks and operationalize activities that must be accomplished to reach an identified or agreed-upon goal. Strategic thinking is a mental process of synthesizing and analyzing information to envision the strategies and tactics needed to achieve an ultimate goal. Strategy is a set of related actions that leadership makes to increase the organization 's performance on agreed upon and significant outcomes and benchmarks.

1. IOM: Nurses should be leaders and partners with physicians and health care professionals. Nurses work first hand with most of the material that is wasted in the health care setting, they would be able to identify needed changes, and be able to track progress much easier and effectively than other health care providers. 2. Heller:

Cooking is a task that an abundance of people can do, but occasionally choose not to. It takes a sizable amount of preparation time and requires a bit of your time to clean up after making the dish. However, when you are able to make a successful dish and and create something you like, it can be somewhat enjoyable, like making stuffed chicken.

Services that are designed to meet the needs and expectations of patients and their Community. Include Systems that

Quality improvement in medical care and health services has a long history. It has been debated whether focus should be on services meeting professional standards (process measures) or end results (Rohrer, 2014). The purpose of this paper will be to describe the quality program goals, objectives, and quality management structure of my respective organization. The way quality management projects are selected, managed, and monitored will be discussed as well as the methodology and tools/techniques that are utilized. Evaluation of the effectiveness of quality improvement activities will be discussed along with what happens when the activity is not effective.

“Quality in public health is the degree to which policies, programs, services, and research for the population increase desired health outcomes and conditions in which the population can be healthy” ("Quality Improvement in Public Health: Lessons Learned from the Multi-State Learning Collaborative"). After the terrorist attack of 2011 and the events that followed put a spot light on the abandonment groundwork that was laid for public health. The major concepts within the article regarding quality improvement in public health are what ways can we implement QI to improve our healthcare. The three major initiatives for improving healthcare through quality improvement and what studies have been done to show the success of the use of QI to improve public health care.

There were some key points I got out of reading this issue of Doctors Digest in regards to quality improvement. I think David Meyers, MD made many good points that are so important to improve the quality of our Healthcare system. He makes the point that data and measurement should be the “starting blocks of quality improvement.” He made another excellent point by saying “If we don’t know how we’re doing, we don’t know where to improve; and we don’t know if we have improved.” I feel these are key questions that must be asked in order to improve quality of healthcare.