| Stay Tuned in on Indicator
Performance |
Keeping the pulse on Quality Improvement projects
/ initiatives is key to making real progress on your
initiatives. Sure you can wait until the monthly
reports come out. But you can close those loops a
lot quicker with automatic notification to let you know
when something changes on any of the indicators you are
watching closely.
Here's an
automatic e-mail notification sent out by Statit piMD,
letting you know that the Expert for an indicator has
added a new Comment / Action plan. You can click
on the thumbnails within your mail message to directly
bring up the detailed info for the indicator.
Click on the thumbail below
to see this in action.
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Indicator |
Activity |
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Comment changed for
Q1-06
Comment
A corrective
action plan will begin immediately to improve the
process.
Action
| 1. |
Meet care providers quarterly to
reinforce importance of smoking cessation
counseling. |
| 2. |
Validate new data. Ensure accurate
information. |
| 3. |
Provide visual tools as aids to smoking
cessation counseling. |
| 4. |
Review quarterly reports with CMO, Dr.
Mary
Wright. | |
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| Statit Software Partners with
Symmetry Services Group |
Statit's piMD solution is currently
being implemented by the Department of Defense at a
facility in Falls Church, VA. All of us at Statit are
delighted to be supporting continuous quality
improvement (CQI) for the various healthcare systems
used by our military.
The Federal Government's focus on
CQI is the catalyst from which Statit Software,
Inc. and Symmetry Services Group formed an exciting
new relationship. Effective April 15, 2007 Symmetry,
based in Vienna, VA, executed a reseller's agreement
with Statit. Symmetry will focus their efforts on
supporting Statit's Federal Government clients worldwide
and commercial clients in the District of Columbia,
Maryland, and Virginia. Both companies anticipate
placing Statit products on Symmetry's GSA Schedule. Symmetry is a
woman-owned small business located in Vienna, Virginia
which is just outside the Capitol Beltway. Please visit
Symmetry's website for more information, www.symmetry-ssg.com.
Read the recent press
release.
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| Join us at ASQ
2007 |
ASQ World Conference
on Quality and ImprovementOrange County
Convention Center
Orlando, Florida
April 30-May 2,
2007
Booth #421
Innovations have
changed the way we do business and the way we live our
lives. Innovation can improve life and is synonymous
with inspiration, growth or change. In large part, it
may be responsible for an organizations' ability to
maintain a sustainable, competitive
advantage.
It's time to connect quality to
innovation.
Discover how you, today's quality
professional, will fuel innovation in business, society,
and our communities. Explore innovation and how it
relates to change management, virtual societies, social
responsibility, systems thinking and customer value with
experts from the U.S. and abroad, from a variety of
industries and backgrounds.
Statit Software
staff will be on hand to hold one-on-one
meetings
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| Statit and Six
Sigma |
Statit Software provides a family
of continuous quality improvement (CQI) solutions
targeted for the healthcare community. Our solutions are
highly customizable and our staff is skilled at helping
healthcare providers adapt these solutions to support
statistical and quality analysis initiatives, regardless
of whether they are philosophically based on TQM, CPI,
or Six Sigma.
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| HIMSS07 Recap |
Statit Software was extremely
proud to exhibit at the Annual Conference and Exhibition
in New Orleans.
The theme of HIMSS is
"transforming healthcare through IT." The educational
and exhibit opportunities showcased the HIMSS theme with
powerful case studies, testimonials and demonstrations
that proved a vital link between healthcare IT and
improvement initiatives.
Among the many and exciting
opportunities for learning, no one could match the star
power of General Colin Powell, USA (Ret.). General Powell
spoke for close to an hour without the aid of notes,
etc. His
mix of humor, history, current affairs and oh yes,
healthcare improvement, kept the more than 5,000 in
attendance on the edge of their seats. If you ever have
an opportunity to listen to General Powell, please take
advantage...you will not be sorry.
Statit Software is committed
to healthcare reformation. We continue to
provide strong support to all associations focused on
improving healthcare quality. From the
response we received at HIMSS, it is clear to us that
many healthcare providers are facing challenging times
to measure and monitor performance. The days of
laboriously gathering data, which result in suspect and
vague interpretations, is a thing of the past.
Statit Software has helped hundreds
of providers move away from costly and timely products
that drain already thin personnel energies to an
"automated" performance improvement reporting
structure.
Like HIMSS, we are committed to transforming
healthcare through IT (only, with our solution, you
won't need much if any IT help!!)
We look forward to seeing all of
you next year in Orlando in late February. To catch an
early glimpse of how Statit is transforming healthcare,
go to piMD.statit.com or
call (800) 478-2892 and ask to speak with one of our
healthcare
experts. |
| Pay for Performance Summit
Recap |
The Second National Pay for Performance (P4P)
Summit was held in Los
Angeles, CA, February 14 - 16. The 3-day summit
was packed with informative keynotes and workshops
designed to educate the attendees with the "pros and
cons" of performance based incentives.
As you know, the goal of P4P is to
create a compelling set of incentives that will drive
breakthrough improvements in clinical quality and the
patient experience through:
- Common set of measures
- A public scorecard
- Health plan payments
CMS and Premier have been
leading the way in a demonstration project, linking
payment with quality measures beginning in October
2003. The
demonstration project has resulted in numerous findings
but in particular, in the years 2004 and 2005, the
median composite score for AMI, CABG, Heart Failure,
Pneumonia and Hip and Knee, all showed steady
improvement with increases between 7 and 18%. The New England
Journal of Medicine, February 2007, reported that all
hospitals involved in the P4P project showed greater
improvement in all composite measures of quality
compared to hospitals engaged in public reporting
only. Although there are many voices
questioning the importance of P4P on healthcare
reformation, the results show a positive improvement
when tied to financial incentives.
Your
reimbursements will soon depend on the "quality" of your
results.
Value based purchasing or P4P rewards hospitals
and physicians based on the quality of care
delivered.
Statit Software's performance improvement
solutions provide the requisite analytics, corrective
action tools, accountability as well as dashboards and
scorecards for you to reach and maintain the top decile
performer status.
We have not heard the last of this. Statit
Software will continue to monitor new developments in
the P4P world. Stay tuned.
To learn how Statit Software's solutions
help monitor measures to qualify for P4P, please go to
piMD.statit.com or call (800) 478-2892
and ask to speak with a healthcare expert on
P4P.
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| Something You'd Like to
See? |
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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| The Role of Data Display in
Advancing Care Management for Chronically Ill Older
Patients |
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Good data, well organized, well
analyzed, and clearly presented is vital to
understanding the reliability and performance of our
systems of health care. This is true
regardless of the setting or type of care delivery; from
the frenetic pace of the ED to the coordination of care
for the chronically ill. This article
briefly describes the use of Statit e-QC in a unique
service model for chronically ill older adults.
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