| Physician Profile: A Prescription
for Success |
The application of Web-based
information technology and data analysis tools to the
quality improvement process enhances the capability and
capacity of leading healthcare organizations to conduct
performance improvement projects and gain "actionable
information" to assist with decision making. Each time
we turn around, there is another reason why this becomes
of greater importance, whether we are talking about
core measures, P4P or physician profiles. This brief
article will outline some of the challenges in creating
and maintaining profiles and how Statit piMD overcomes
the hurdles; a prescription for
success.
First, some history...
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| Measuring Performance Improvement
within the Quality Department |
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Statit piMD provides a solution that
allows Quality Departments to automatically measure and
report on various performance indicators within the
organization. Statit piMD now allows the Quality
Department to measure how their department is
progressing in Process Improvement methodologies for the
indicators that they report on.
Here's a sample of metrics that are
readily available:
- Total # of Indicators being reported
- % of Public Indicators
- % of Indicators in Alarm state
- % of Indicators which have Action
Plans
- % of Indicators which require Process
Expert validation
- % of Indicators which are using Bar
charts vs. SPC charts for reporting
- # of Indicators which are
experiencing unusual variation for the most recent
period
- % of Indicators which have Process
Phases defined
- % of Indicators using Comparison
Analysis vs. Bar charts
Read more...
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| Burke Rehab's Recipe for
Success |
Take one rehabilitation hospital, six
Administrative Directors, twenty department heads, one
Executive Medical Officer and one Executive Director,
mix with a great desire to improve process performance,
bake for two days and voila! Success!
Really? That's all it
takes to have a successful performance improvement
initiative implementation? Well, it's a great
start. But it takes much more. It takes an
internal champion who has the drive to make the
implementation successful. It takes upper
management's buy-in from the get-go. It also takes a
proven performance improvement
application.
Let's take a look
at how Burke Rehabilitation Hospital got their performance
improvement initiative up and running...
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| Kids Learn About Quality in a Fun
Activity |
The Performance Improvement Department
located at North Kansas City Hospital in Missouri used
Statit piMD
in a quality assurance demonstration for children attending
Take Your Child to Work Day on April
24.
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| Designing and Implementing
Composite Performance Measures to Accelerate Quality
Improvement |
A Case Study at Doylestown Hospital Using
Core Measures...and More
As a healthcare
professional, you need to measure performance and show
results now -- lives depend on it. Use well-designed
composite measures in combination with Pareto charts to
maximize your improvement
efforts.
- Increase the reliability of
care.
- Align the work of multiple units,
departments and different members of the care team
with organizational aims.
- Help leadership identifiy the
processes most in need of their engagement and
support.
Learn from the experience at Doylestown Hospital --
a case study highlighting the techniques and approaches
that will help you harness this powerful tool in any
environment.
Statit Software was pleased to sponsor
this Quality Practice Seminar last Winter, presented
through the American Society for Quality. If you
missed it, you can still view the presentation ON
DEMAND!
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Statit piMD 3.5
Released! |
Statit Software is pleased to announce
the release of Statit piMD 3.5, the latest
version of our leading web solution for performance improvement initiatives
for healthcare organizations. Hundreds of our clients
throughout the U.S. and Canada are using Statit solutions
to access, analyze and interpret their healthcare quality
data.
Some of the new functionality in
version 3.5 includes:
- Enhanced usage reporting
and statistics for Indicators and Users
- Integration with Windows NT
Authentication for easier access
- Rare Events reporting which allows
you to track time between individual events
- Quality Department / Process Improvement
Reporting (read more)
- Enhanced online help for each
type of analysis in Statit piMD
If you haven't take a look at what
Statit piMD 3.5 has to offer your organization, make
time today to take a 10 minute tour.
Statit piMD 3.5 is available now. For
more information on this release or for a short WebEx
demonstration of the new capabilities, contact Statit
Software at (800) 478-2892 or email info@statit.com. |
| Visit us
at NAHQ |
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Collaboration: The Spark
Behind Quality
Ignite the spark behind
healthcare quality at the National Association for
Healthcare Quality's 33rd annual Educational Conference
at the J.W. Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in
sunny Phoenix, AZ, September 14-17.
Statit piMD™ helps nurture a "culture
of quality," creating structures and processes to
monitor performance, identify deficiencies and to
devise, test and implement solutions. Whether you are a
single hospital, ambulatory care center or a large,
integrated delivery system, Statit piMD provides a
simple yet powerful way to access, track, analyze,
compare and contrast raw data in ways that provide
insights from which to make objective, sustainable and
defensible decisions.
At NAHQ, attendees
will:
- Get cutting-edge news in
healthcare quality
- Learn firsthand about innovative
products
- Earn valuable continuing education
(CE) credits
- Network with key leaders in
healthcare quality
To learn more about Statit Software's
healthcare solutions, visit Booth #313 during the NAHQ
conference, or visit the Statit Software site at www.statit.com. Visit the
NAHQ web site at www.nahq.org for more information
on the conference.
Statit Software staff will be on
hand to hold one-on-one meetings. Request your meeting!
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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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Physician Profiles: "Quality"
Reports for the Enterprise
a complimentary
webinar |
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The entire healthcare
industry is under siege from internal and external sources.
The days of laboriously gathering data, which result in
suspect and vague interpretations, is a thing of the past.
Statit Software has teamed with its clients in the healthcare
industry to improve healthcare performance by improving
critical processes, including physician performance.
Key issues include:
- Many different physicians and physican
metrics need to be tracked
- Data is EVERYWHERE on the network
- Different reporting needs/schedules
for management and physicians
- Interactive chart annotation (comment,
action plans & phases/real-time analysis of significance,
etc.)
- Encourage adoption of evidence-based
medicine
- Convenient access
In this month's complimentary
webinar, Tom Simas, President of Statit Software, will
discuss physician profiling. We will explore the challenges
associated with physician profiling reporting, tracking
and measuring performance, comparisons to peer group and
drilling down to encounter-level detail. Automating your
physician profiling reports with accurate and statistically
significant analyses for physicians is the first step
in driving the hospital's overall quality and financial
well-being. There are many ways to examine physician profiling;
we will show you how we do it using Statit piMD™.
Presented
by
Tom Simas
President & CEO
Statit Software, Inc.
May
28, 2008
10:00 a.m. Pacific
11:00 a.m. Mountain
12:00 p.m. Central
1:00 p.m. Eastern
Register
Today
for this complimentary webinar
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