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October
2006
Statit
Software’s Vision:
To
provide our customers with timely and efficient products and services to
turn data to information which they can use to continuously improve the
value of the "product" they provide by raising quality and lowering
costs.
This
quarter’s topics:
Automating Quality Reporting
Using Excel / MS Access Data
The Use
of Three-Sigma for Control Limits
Quality
Link: Doctor Changes Culture to Improve Odds for
Patients
Transparency
Reporting Through Statit piMD — A Look at Our
Future
Is Your
Compliance Data Hiding Revenue
Opportunities?
The Best
of Times
Need
Management Reports on PowerPoint Slides? Here's
How!
Trade
Show Paradise from the Comfort of Your
Join us
at IHI 2006
On-line
Training
Something
You’d Like to See?
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1128 NE 2nd St, Ste 108
Corvallis,
OR 97330
Phone:
(800) 478-2892
Fax:
(541) 752-4646
E-mail:
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Automating
Quality Reporting Using Excel / MS Access Data
Quality
departments within healthcare have a tough challenge to meet the existing
reporting needs of Quality Indicators throughout the organization. And
that challenge is going to become ever more difficult as more and more
processes are tracked and targeted for improvement.
Key issues include:
- Many different Indicators / Metrics need to be tracked
- Indicator data is EVERYWHERE
- Need both Operational and Executive reporting
- Report generation needs to be automated or it will consume many
resources and/or be fraught with errors
- Need objective (SPC) analysis techniques
- Different Indicators available at different times during the
month/quarter
- Report distribution
- Closing the Process Improvement loop
Many organizations attempt to perform this task using Microsoft Office
products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), but these approaches require considerable
resources internally and have many shortcomings. There is a much more effective way.
The
Use of Three-Sigma for Control
Limits
Three-sigma
(s) limits are generally used for control limits on a Shewhart control
chart. Why? Let's find out.
Quality
Link: Doctor Changes Culture to Improve Odds for
Patients
ABC
World News recently completed a week long look into "Prescription for
Change." Dr. Brent James of Intermountain Health Care, a long time friend
and customer of Statit Software’s performance improvement solutions
and services, was interviewed for a story called Doc Saves Lives
and Money—The doctor who says he’s discovered how to slash costs and
improve care. View the article and short video clip
Transparency
Reporting Through Statit piMD—A Look at Our
Future
Transparency reporting
is the open sharing of data which is key to insuring that the culture of
improvement is sustained, both internally and externally so that the
public understands the people delivering service are trying hard to
deliver the best care in a safe way. We all know reasons why transparency
reporting is important. Some include:
- Helps motivate our own internal performance initiatives
- Provides a vehicle to build needed confidence in the care delivery
system
- Maintains and/or increases our competitive stance vis-à-vis other
providers in our care delivery area.
Here’s a discussion on how to implement transparency
reporting in your organization.
Is
Your Compliance Data Hiding Revenue Opportunities?
Written by Thomas Graham, CFO, AMC Registry,
Inc.
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The Medicare Modernization
Act of 2003 (MMA) provided financial incentive for hospitals to
report what they termed "quality of care data" in their treatment
of heart attack (acute myocardial infarction), heart failure, and
pneumonia. Although compliance was voluntary, non-compliant inpatient
acute care hospitals faced losing a financial incentive in their
annual Medicare fee schedule update. Further incentives, including
potential increased reimbursement for facilities performing in the
upper 10 percent, were suggested. The paper chase was on. |
The
Best of Times
The healthcare industry
is going through some exciting times in regards to Quality Improvement
and the use of Statistical Process Control (SPC). It is both the best
of times and the worst of times. It is the best of times because SPC
provides the information to help healthcare workers understand their
processes. It is very exciting to find areas for healthcare improvement
and to monitor those changes. But what about the flip side? Find out why it is also the worst of times.
Need
Management Reports on PowerPoint Slides? Here's
How!
Sometimes you have advanced
notice of an upcoming management meeting and the need for a performance
improvement status update. In many cases, the media venue of choice
is PowerPoint. When you have the time, this exercise can go smoothly.
What about those other times when someone pops their head in your door
and says, "Impromptu meeting in 10 minutes and you are responsible for
the presentation." How often are the words "smoothly" and "management
reports" ever used in the same sentence unless there is a big NOT between
the words?! Statit Software can help.
Trade
Show Paradise from the Comfort of Your
Office
Statit Software is very
proud to be involved with the National Association for Healthcare Quality
(NAHQ). NAHQ’s recent "Chart Your Course for Healthcare Quality"
conference was replete with educational, networking and vendor solution
presentation opportunities. During the show, we provided brief
presentations on topics of interest to healthcare quality folks. A
sampling of our presentations included:
- Comparing Indicator Performance
- Creating Health Information Dashboards with an SPC Focus
- Data Rich—Information Poor…How to Make Sense of Your Existing Data
The presentations have been so well received, we were asked if there was
a way to present these to folks who could not attend the trade show. Statit
Software will soon be presenting this information in quick, effective,
on-line, webinars. More info…
Join
us at IHI 2006
Mark your calendar for
December 10-13, 2006! We hope to see you all at IHI's 17th Annual National
Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. The National Forum on Quality
Improvement in Health Care is the premier "meeting place" for people
committed to the mission of improving health care. This annual event
draws approximately 5,500 health care leaders from around the world
in person and an additional 6,000 via satellite.
Join Statit Software in booth #313 at this year’s conference, December
10-13, in Orlando, FL. After meeting with Statit Software, participants
should be better able to:
- Understand how to share performance improvement analyses throughout
the healthcare organization
- Create dashboards, scorecards and trend output utilizing existing
data
- Provide accountability to "experts" to interactively create comments
and corrective actions when necessary
- Automatically send alerts when targets are missed or special cause
variation exists in a critical process
- Derive knowledge to support timely, data-driven decisions.
Statit Software staff will be on hand to hold one-on-one
meetings.
On-line
Training: Getting Started with Statit Express
QC
Join us for our next
webinar entitled "Getting Started
with Statit Express QC", November 8, 11am-1pm PT. If you are a new user of Statit Express
QC or if you need a refresher, this webinar is for you. Topics covered include data import options,
Excel files, ODBC connections, saving data, Express window management
& preferences, and much, much more. For more information on this or other
upcoming training opportunities or to register for this webinar, click here.
Something
You’d Like to See?
Is there a topic you’d
like us to discuss? Have a statistics
question? If so, submit a topic
request and we’ll see that your topic gets covered in an upcoming
edition of the Statit Bulletin.
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