The document describes a Process Improvement (PI) Cycle that enables practitioners to suggest improvements to processes based on their experiences. The key steps of the PI Cycle are:
1. A PI Team collects suggestions from different groups in the organization.
2. The PI Team analyzes, prioritizes, and presents the suggestions to management for feedback and decisions on updates.
3. The PI Team then updates the relevant processes based on management's decisions and the cycle repeats periodically.
Quality Circles
- What do you mean by quality circles.
- How do you implement quality circles in your organization?
- What are the benefits of implementing quality circles?
Quality circles structural od intervention - Organizational Change and Dev...manumelwin
A quality circle is a participatory management technique that enlists the help of employees in solving problems related to their own jobs.
Circles are formed of employees working together in an operation who meet at intervals to discuss problems of quality and to devise solutions for improvements.
Quality Circles
- What do you mean by quality circles.
- How do you implement quality circles in your organization?
- What are the benefits of implementing quality circles?
Quality circles structural od intervention - Organizational Change and Dev...manumelwin
A quality circle is a participatory management technique that enlists the help of employees in solving problems related to their own jobs.
Circles are formed of employees working together in an operation who meet at intervals to discuss problems of quality and to devise solutions for improvements.
A look at strategies for lowering hospital readmissions across the continuum of care.
Hospital readmissions are a multi-dimensional problem. No single player or entity is entirely responsible for reducing excess readmissions. By improving our understanding of each touch point along the patient care continuum, strategies can be developed that ultimately reduce total readmissions.
This paper explores the roles of patients and providers in reducing readmissions and reviews several strategies that each can implement to help reduce readmission rates.
-Which patients are at high risk of hospital readmission?
-Comprehensive discharge planning strategies
-The physician’s role in lowering hospital readmission rates
-Optimizing communications handoffs between providers
-Building patient-centered transitional care models
-End of life planning
The LACE index identifies patients that are at risk for re-admission or death within thirty days of discharge. It incorporates four parameters. "L" stands for the length of stay of the index admission. "A" stands for the acuity of the admission. Specifically, if the patient is admitted through the Emergency Department vs. an elective admission. "C" stands for co-morbidities, incorporating the Charlson Co-Morbidity Index. "E" stands for the number of Emergency Department visits within the last 6 months.
LACE sores range from 1-19 and as mentioned above predict the rate of re-admission or death within thirty days of discharge. Below is an example of how to calculate the LACE index. A score of 0 - 4 = Low; 5 - 9 = Moderate; and a score of ≥ 10 = High risk of re-admission.
How to survive cms's most recent 3% hospital readmissions penalties increase Health Catalyst
Hospital readmissions rates are now at 3 percent, which means that health systems are feeling the financial burden of decreased payments from Medicare. They also need to track two more 30-day readmission rates. While there aren’t any new penalty measures planned for 2016, coronary artery bypass grafts will be added as yet another measure to track in 2017. By using three strategies to reduce readmission rates, health systems will experience better outcomes and decreased penalties. The three strategies include the following: (1) implementing a data warehouse that provides a single source of truth; (2) engaging a multidisciplinary team to lead the improvement efforts; (3) installing a sophisticated analytics platform.
Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: Keys to SuccessHealth Catalyst
Avoidable readmissions are a major financial major problem for the healthcare industry, especially for government payers. To tackle this problem, CMS launched the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). While some hospitals may be able to absorb the financial penalties under HRRP, they still need to track increasingly complex reporting metrics. Most tracking solutions are inadequate for today’s complicated reporting needs. A healthcare enterprise data warehouse and analytics applications, however, are designed to solve the numerous reporting burdens. When used together, they also deliver a robust solution that enables hospitals to track and drive real cost and quality improvement initiatives, all without the need for users to be technical experts.
Three Approaches to Predictive Analytics in HealthcareHealth Catalyst
Predictive analytics in healthcare must be timely, role-specific, and actionable to be successful. There are also three common types of healthcare predictive analytics: Risk scores (risk stratification using CMS-HCC or other models), What-if scenarios (simulations of specific outcomes given a certain combination of events, and Geo-spatial analytics (mapping a geographical location’s patient disease burden). The common thread in all of these is the element of action, or specifically, the intervention that really matters in healthcare predictive analytics.
Features:
The organization gets the total man
Humanize the work i.e. Quality of work life is stressed and improved
Brings out extra-ordinary qualities from ordinary people
To display the human capabilities fully and eventually draw out infinite possibilities
Prepares the employer and employees to meet the challenges of the changing time and condition
Develop a training plan for one of the role groups in the organi.docxhcheryl1
Develop a training plan for one of the role groups in the organization that will be responsible for implementing practice guidelines under the new organizational policy you presented in Assessment 3. Prepare an agenda for a two-hour workshop, and summarize your strategies for working with this group, the expected outcomes of the training, and why you chose this group to pilot the change.
Introduction
Note:
Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
Training and educating those within an organization who will be responsible for implementing and working with changes in organizational policy is a critical step in ensuring that prescribed changes have their intended benefit. A leader in a health care profession needs to be able to apply effective leadership, management, and educational strategies to ensure that colleagues and subordinates will be prepared to do the work that is asked of them.
As a master's-level health care practitioner, you may be asked to design training sessions to help ensure the smooth implementation of any number of initiatives in your health care setting. The ability to create an agenda that will ensure your training goals will be met, and will fit into the time you are allotted, is a valuable skill for preparing colleagues to be successful in their practice. This assessment offers you an opportunity to develop and implement such strategies.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 2: Analyze relevant health care laws and regulations and their applications and effects on processes within a health care team or organization.
Explain an institutional policy or practice guidelines that will be implemented.
Competency 3: Lead the development and implementation of ethical and culturally sensitive policies that improve health outcomes for individuals, organizations, and populations.
Justify the importance of an institutional policy or practice guidelines to improve the quality of care or outcomes related to a specific group.
Develop materials that support learning and skill development to enable a group to be successful in applying a policy or practice guidelines to its work.
Competency 5: Develop strategies to work collaboratively with policy makers, stakeholders, and colleagues to address environmental (governmental and regulatory) forces.
Develop strategies for engaging with a specific group to ensure buy in, support, and preparedness to implement changes in policy and practice guidelines.
Advocate for the importance of the role a specific group will play in implementing changes in policy and practice guidelines.
Competency 6: Apply various methods of communicating with policy makers, stakeholders, co.
Keeping Content Health and Quality in Check by Jason Kaufman, IrrevoJack Molisani
Measuring what’s working, what isn’t, and acting on this critical information is what
drives the continuous optimization of your content. Focusing your quality program roles,
responsibilities, and accountabilities is the key to simplifying your workload and lowering
costs.
In this session, we will demonstrate how to:
• Establish your Article Quality Index (AQI) to measure the success of your content quality
program.
• Determine your Article Utility Index (AUI), what content is valid AND valuable.
• Manage your Content Validity Check (CVC) Project(s).
• Identify and track improvement opportunities (Flagging) and enhancements (Fixing) on
an ongoing basis.
A look at strategies for lowering hospital readmissions across the continuum of care.
Hospital readmissions are a multi-dimensional problem. No single player or entity is entirely responsible for reducing excess readmissions. By improving our understanding of each touch point along the patient care continuum, strategies can be developed that ultimately reduce total readmissions.
This paper explores the roles of patients and providers in reducing readmissions and reviews several strategies that each can implement to help reduce readmission rates.
-Which patients are at high risk of hospital readmission?
-Comprehensive discharge planning strategies
-The physician’s role in lowering hospital readmission rates
-Optimizing communications handoffs between providers
-Building patient-centered transitional care models
-End of life planning
The LACE index identifies patients that are at risk for re-admission or death within thirty days of discharge. It incorporates four parameters. "L" stands for the length of stay of the index admission. "A" stands for the acuity of the admission. Specifically, if the patient is admitted through the Emergency Department vs. an elective admission. "C" stands for co-morbidities, incorporating the Charlson Co-Morbidity Index. "E" stands for the number of Emergency Department visits within the last 6 months.
LACE sores range from 1-19 and as mentioned above predict the rate of re-admission or death within thirty days of discharge. Below is an example of how to calculate the LACE index. A score of 0 - 4 = Low; 5 - 9 = Moderate; and a score of ≥ 10 = High risk of re-admission.
How to survive cms's most recent 3% hospital readmissions penalties increase Health Catalyst
Hospital readmissions rates are now at 3 percent, which means that health systems are feeling the financial burden of decreased payments from Medicare. They also need to track two more 30-day readmission rates. While there aren’t any new penalty measures planned for 2016, coronary artery bypass grafts will be added as yet another measure to track in 2017. By using three strategies to reduce readmission rates, health systems will experience better outcomes and decreased penalties. The three strategies include the following: (1) implementing a data warehouse that provides a single source of truth; (2) engaging a multidisciplinary team to lead the improvement efforts; (3) installing a sophisticated analytics platform.
Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: Keys to SuccessHealth Catalyst
Avoidable readmissions are a major financial major problem for the healthcare industry, especially for government payers. To tackle this problem, CMS launched the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP). While some hospitals may be able to absorb the financial penalties under HRRP, they still need to track increasingly complex reporting metrics. Most tracking solutions are inadequate for today’s complicated reporting needs. A healthcare enterprise data warehouse and analytics applications, however, are designed to solve the numerous reporting burdens. When used together, they also deliver a robust solution that enables hospitals to track and drive real cost and quality improvement initiatives, all without the need for users to be technical experts.
Three Approaches to Predictive Analytics in HealthcareHealth Catalyst
Predictive analytics in healthcare must be timely, role-specific, and actionable to be successful. There are also three common types of healthcare predictive analytics: Risk scores (risk stratification using CMS-HCC or other models), What-if scenarios (simulations of specific outcomes given a certain combination of events, and Geo-spatial analytics (mapping a geographical location’s patient disease burden). The common thread in all of these is the element of action, or specifically, the intervention that really matters in healthcare predictive analytics.
Features:
The organization gets the total man
Humanize the work i.e. Quality of work life is stressed and improved
Brings out extra-ordinary qualities from ordinary people
To display the human capabilities fully and eventually draw out infinite possibilities
Prepares the employer and employees to meet the challenges of the changing time and condition
Develop a training plan for one of the role groups in the organi.docxhcheryl1
Develop a training plan for one of the role groups in the organization that will be responsible for implementing practice guidelines under the new organizational policy you presented in Assessment 3. Prepare an agenda for a two-hour workshop, and summarize your strategies for working with this group, the expected outcomes of the training, and why you chose this group to pilot the change.
Introduction
Note:
Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
Training and educating those within an organization who will be responsible for implementing and working with changes in organizational policy is a critical step in ensuring that prescribed changes have their intended benefit. A leader in a health care profession needs to be able to apply effective leadership, management, and educational strategies to ensure that colleagues and subordinates will be prepared to do the work that is asked of them.
As a master's-level health care practitioner, you may be asked to design training sessions to help ensure the smooth implementation of any number of initiatives in your health care setting. The ability to create an agenda that will ensure your training goals will be met, and will fit into the time you are allotted, is a valuable skill for preparing colleagues to be successful in their practice. This assessment offers you an opportunity to develop and implement such strategies.
Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 2: Analyze relevant health care laws and regulations and their applications and effects on processes within a health care team or organization.
Explain an institutional policy or practice guidelines that will be implemented.
Competency 3: Lead the development and implementation of ethical and culturally sensitive policies that improve health outcomes for individuals, organizations, and populations.
Justify the importance of an institutional policy or practice guidelines to improve the quality of care or outcomes related to a specific group.
Develop materials that support learning and skill development to enable a group to be successful in applying a policy or practice guidelines to its work.
Competency 5: Develop strategies to work collaboratively with policy makers, stakeholders, and colleagues to address environmental (governmental and regulatory) forces.
Develop strategies for engaging with a specific group to ensure buy in, support, and preparedness to implement changes in policy and practice guidelines.
Advocate for the importance of the role a specific group will play in implementing changes in policy and practice guidelines.
Competency 6: Apply various methods of communicating with policy makers, stakeholders, co.
Keeping Content Health and Quality in Check by Jason Kaufman, IrrevoJack Molisani
Measuring what’s working, what isn’t, and acting on this critical information is what
drives the continuous optimization of your content. Focusing your quality program roles,
responsibilities, and accountabilities is the key to simplifying your workload and lowering
costs.
In this session, we will demonstrate how to:
• Establish your Article Quality Index (AQI) to measure the success of your content quality
program.
• Determine your Article Utility Index (AUI), what content is valid AND valuable.
• Manage your Content Validity Check (CVC) Project(s).
• Identify and track improvement opportunities (Flagging) and enhancements (Fixing) on
an ongoing basis.
Using Evaluation to Improve Our Work A Resource Guide .docxjessiehampson
Using Evaluation to Improve Our Work: A Resource Guide
i
GUIDE TO THE AFTER
ACTION REVIEW
Version 1.1
October 2010
A simple, but powerful method for rapid
post-project assessment
The After Action Review is useful for reflecting upon a
project during and after its completion.
Sharing the results from your AAR can help future teams
learn your successful strategies and avoid pitfalls you have
worked to overcome
Susanne Salem-Schatz, ScD, VA Center for Implementation
Practice and Research Support
Diana Ordin, MD, MPH, VA Office of Quality and Performance
Brian Mittman, PhD, VA Center for Implementation Practice
and Research Support
Using Evaluation to Improve Our Work: A Resource Guide
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Table of Contents
Overview .................................................................................................................................................................................. 1
User’s Guide to the After Action Review ............................................................................................................................ 2
Planning an After Action Review ......................................................................................................................................... 2
Conducting an After Action Review ..................................................................................................................................... 4
Sharing the AAR Results ........................................................................................................................................................ 7
After Action Review Report Template ................................................................................................................................. 8
After Action Review Bibliography ...................................................................................................................................... 10
Using Evaluation to Improve Our Work: A Resource Guide
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AFTER ACTION REVIEW
OVERVIEW
Organizational learning requires that teams continuously assess their performance to identify and
learn from successes and failures. The After Action Review (AAR) is a simple but powerful tool to help
you do this. Conducting an AAR at the end of a project, program or event can help you and your team
learn from your efforts. Furthermore, sharing the results from your AAR can help future teams learn
your successful strategies and avoid pitfalls you have worked to overcome.
A b o u t t h e A f t e r A c t i o n R e v i e w
First used by the Army on combat missions, the AAR is a structured approach for reflecting on the work
of a group and identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. It is routinely used by
project teams in the VA’s Emergency Management program and by corporations such as GE, British
Petroleum and Motorola. An AAR ...
Describe and apply various principles and techniques for developing and organizing teams and leading quality initiatives.
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Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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