| Customer Highlight: Bluegrass
Regional MH-MR Board, Inc. |
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by Cindy Faulkner, Regional Director of
Performance Improvement at Bluegrass
Bluegrass Regional MH-MR
Board, Inc. is the largest community mental health
center in Kentucky. We are a non-profit
organization providing services in mental health, mental
retardation, developmental disabilities and substance
abuse to over 30,000 individuals each year. Those
services are delivered in a variety of
settings--outpatient, residential, hospital and
intermediate-care. The area served covers over 500
square miles in Central Kentucky.
The majority of our funding comes from State
general fund dollars and Medicaid. The mission of the
organization is to provide services regardless of the
individual's ability to pay for that care. Bluegrass
typically delivers over ten million dollars a year
in charity care. With this in mind, it is easy to
understand that we run very lean administratively. We
would rather devote resources to our consumers than
spend money on administrative staff.
As the organization grew, it became increasingly
difficult to keep up the demands of various stakeholders
for data and information without additional staff resources.
Read on to
see what path Bluegrass took... |
| Automating the Creation of
PowerPoint Presentations for Management |
Statit piMD lets you automate your
monthly/quarterly reports by allowing you to publish
output to MS Office applications. By using capabilities
built into MS Word and PowerPoint, you can save yourself
the time and effort required to hand insert each of your
indicator graphs into the Office Document
each reporting period. The key here is
to build up your report framework and then
link in your indicator graphs, rather
than embed them into your
document.
Statit piMD can also provide instant drill down and
details for any of the indicators being presented. If
someone attending the presentation asks a question like,
"Why was last quarter so bad?" the presenter can just
click on the image in PowerPoint and view the detailed
indicator display within Statit piMD. By doing so, the
presenter now has access to the full interactive
capabilities of Statit piMD and can click on a
particular period to show which facilities or units were
dragging the overall indicator down. They can also see
the detailed data, see comments and action plans entered
by the process expert, and view comparison analyses to
identify which facility, unit or physician is performing
differently from the rest.
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| Quality, Performance Improvement
and Risk Management: Addressing Ever Changing Reporting
Needs |
CGH Medical Center in Sterling, Illinois, wanted
an efficient, cost-effective way to meet their Quality,
Performance Improvement (PI) and Risk reporting
requirements for their organization. For external
reporting of Core Measures, they used a proven and
endorsed ORYX system, MIDAS+ CPMS. For internal
management reporting, they had assembled several Excel
spreadsheets and Adobe PDF documents, and printed them
for monthly and quarterly committee meetings. This
process was time consuming and cumbersome, and by the
time the information reached its intended audience, it
was already dated. CGH searched for a better reporting
system and found Statit piMD and Statit
PPR.
Let's take a look
at their implementation
process... |
| Setting up Automatic
Logins |
Were you aware that it is possible to
set up automatic login using Statit piMD and Statit PPR?
Traditionally, a user has logged into Statit's
web-based products by connecting to a manual login page
and supplying a username and password. Once these
credentials were verified, the user was logged into the
system and presented with their default view. With the
release 3.5, Statit piMD introduced the ability to
automatically authenticate users using the "Integrated
Windows Authentication" feature of Internet
Explorer.
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| Statit Solutions -
Reduce...Reuse...Renew... Recycle... |
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RELAX!
Flexibility is the cornerstone of
"going green" whether we are talking about personal
habits or technology. Let's consider these "5 Rs"
through the eyes of the Statit Solutions Group with a
request that is heard often. Understanding physician
performance is a critical component in continuous
process improvement initiatives. Statit Solutions is a
leading provider of Physician Profiling solutions. Let
us now consider a variation of this theme: allowing us
to conquer the first "R"...reduce
spending.
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| Survey Data Getting on Your
Nerves? |
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You've probably seen the data. You get
a spreadsheet that has survey data with a row for each
survey returned and a column for each question on
the survey. The answers to some of the questions are in
the form of "Excellent", "Good", "Fair"
and "Poor" while others are "Yes", "No" or "Not
Applicable". And to make things even more complicated,
in each column there could be a number of blank
spaces...HELP!
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| We are Growing!
Welcome New Customers and New
Staff!! |
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Statit is pleased to welcome the
following new customers:
- Columbia Memorial Hospital
- Chelsea Community Hospital
- Sanford Health
- Southern Illinois Healthcare
- Memorial Hospital
- CGH Medical Center
- Kaiser Permanente - San Diego
- Kentucky Department of Mental Health
- Miami Valley Hospital
- St. Peter's Hospital
- Alegent Health
- Thomason Hospital
We are also excited to welcome two new
staff members: Steve Fullerton and Brian
Bergeron.
Steve has more than 25 years of
experience with the Statit products, ranging from the
system internals to application development. He was the
technical lead for the Statit technology at Statware and
Electroglas.
Steve has a broad technical
background including data analysis, system architecture,
data acquisition and integration. His education includes
a B.S. in Mathematics and a Master of Statistics from
the University of Utah.
Steve can be
contacted at sfullerton@statit.com.
His phone number is (541)
368-7409.
Brian has a B.S. from Portland State
University and has been involved in software sales for
the last 22 years. He was with Intersolv/Serena
software for 11 years selling application development
tools and prior to that he was with Instromedix, Inc. a
medical hardware/software company specializing in
transtelephonic medicine.
Brian can be
contacted at bbergeron@statit.com. His phone number is (503)
537-4060.
Both Steve and Brian are looking
forward to working with new and existing customers to
help you along your Quality Improvement
journey! |
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Visit us at ASQ! |
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Join the MIDAS+ Statit Solutions Group
and American Society for Quality as we explore the
culture of quality: serving customers, organizations and
communities.
Come
to the World Conference on Quality and
Improvement, May 18-20 in
Minneapolis. Imagine your organization without
quality. Imagine your life without quality. Because of
the importance of quality in every aspect of your life,
the focus of ASQ's 2009 World Conference on Quality and
Improvement is to create, promote, and grow the culture
of quality on a global scale.
- Learn new and classic quality tools,
methodologies, and techniques.
- Make an immediate impact on your
organization's bottom line.
- Attend in-depth breakout sessions.
- Network with more than 2000 attendees
and exhibitors.
- Benchmark best practices in the
International Team Excellence Award Process.
- Gain inspiration to take back to your
workplace.
Need to convince your boss that you need
to be at the 2009 World Conference on Quality and
Improvement? Here are some facts to help you!
Please join us in Booth
#333. During the lunch hour each day, we
will be giving brief, informative presentations.
Contact us for a detailed
schedule of topics. Statit staff will
also be available for one-on-one
meetings. Request your
meeting! |
| 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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Statit PPR - A Variation
on a Theme
a
complimentary webinar |
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In our current reality of
information proliferation coupled with shrinking
budgets, how does one reconcile the challenge? MIDAS+
Statit Solutions Group believes the answer to this
question is "go green - renew, reuse and recycle." With
solutions engineered with flexibility, your return on
investment is maximized. Take for example, the Statit
Physician Profile & Review (PPR) solution. We
designed Statit PPR to meet the needs for OPPE
reporting. Yet, customers also wanted the ability to
track other non-physician performance with comparisons
to "peers" and provide a department manager the ability
to track and provide written reviews. Why not "go green"
with Statit Physician Profile & Review!?!?
Log on to view this
complimentary webinar and you will be shown how to:
- Provide managers access to their
specific unit measure in a scorecard format.
- Compare unit performance to the
performance of their peer units.
- Drill deep into the data to find root
cause analysis.
- Evaluate and record review
information for the unit.
Please join us for this complimentary
webinar...let's go green together and in the process
save some at the same time!
View this
complimentary webinar at your own
leisure! |
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