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| Case Study – Improving Health Care through Data Driven
Process Redesign |
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The
IOM report, “Crossing the Quality Chasm”, called
for fundamental reforms in the health care system.
It identified deficiencies and problems that contribute
to sub-optimal health care quality, compromised
patient safety, and waste in the system. More importantly,
it outlined an agenda for making our health care
system safe, effective, patient-centered, timely,
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An informative article entitled Improving Health Care
through Data Driven Process Redesign, co-authored
by Dr. Kenneth D. Coburn, CEO & President of Health
Quality Partners, and Tim Hediger, Director of Improving
Systems at Doylestown Hospital, will provide ideas for
your own “fundamental reform initiatives.”
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| The Use of Three-Sigma for Control Limits |
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| Three-sigma
(σ) limits are generally used for control limits
on a Shewhart control chart. Why? |
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Let's find out...
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| Upcoming Webinar: Automating Quality Reporting Using
Excel / MS Access Data |
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This webinar explores the challenges associated with Health
Care Quality Reporting, particularly with the use of Excel as
a reporting tool. We will look at Quality reporting issues in
healthcare and present a way to automate reporting and
distribute real time reports using your Intranet. Best of all,
you can continue to use your existing data residing in Excel,
MS Access and any other databases.
Join us for this
complimentary webinar on February 21 at 1:00pm PST. The
webinar will last approximately 45 minutes with 15 minutes at
the end for Q&A. Space is limited to the first 15
connections, so don't delay!
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| Join us at the 2nd National Pay for Performance
Summit |
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2nd
National Pay for Performance Summit
Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles
February 14 - 16, 2007
Booth #18
The Leading National Forum on Pay for Performance
to Enhance Healthcare Access, Quality and Efficiency |
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The goal of the second annual National Pay for Performance
Summit is to provide a forum for the exchange of content
and ideas, and thus to continue discussion and debate about
the direction PFP should take.
Statit Software staff will be on hand to hold one-on-one
meetings.
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| Stop by and Chat with Us at HIMSS07 |
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At HIMSS07...innovations will happen..."What
if?" shakes hands with "We could do that." And something
completely new is born. Imagine that happening hundreds
of times a day all around you. That's the HIMSS Conference
and Exhibition. And that's why you want to be there.
Statit Software personnel will be conducting brief, informative
presentations throughout each day covering hot topics faced
in healthcare today.
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| Statit Software Welcomes Dennis Sheldrick |
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| Statit Software welcomes Dennis Sheldrick to the Professional
Services Group. While Dennis is new to Statit products,
he has over 25 years of experience in application
and system training and software support. |
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Dennis has a solid technical and business background and
his education includes a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics,
as well as an M.B.A. from the Haas Business School at U.C.
Berkeley. Dennis looks forward to working with our new and
existing customers to provide accurate and timely answers
to customer queries and assist you in being successful in
your use and applications of Statit’s software products.
Dennis can be contacted at
dsheldrick@statit.com.
His phone number is (541) 752-4118.
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| Something You'd Like to See? |
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Is there a topic you'd like us to discuss? Have a process
improvement 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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What you Need to Know about Health Care Quality
Systems |
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Health care is going through some exciting times in
regards to Quality Improvement and the use of Statistical
Process Control (SPC). In many ways, it is the best of times
and the worst of times. It is the best of times because SPC
provides critical information to help you understand your
processes and outcomes and to detect areas for improvement
(results, cost containment, value-based purchasing rewards,
etc.). Additionally, measurement leads to monitoring.
Monitoring ensures we don’t revert back to our “old
ways.”
Find out why it is
also the worst of times.... |
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