Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) is a large integrated healthcare system that sought to standardize nursing procedures and competency evaluation across its 73 hospitals. CHI chose Elsevier Clinical Skills as a solution to reduce variation, validate clinical competence, and promote evidence-based practices. Over a 6-9 month period, CHI implemented Clinical Skills system-wide which involved gap analyses, policy revisions, training, and communications. The implementation of Clinical Skills helped CHI accomplish its goal of delivering standardized, evidence-based care across its network and led to improvements in operational efficiency and quality of care.
Quality improvement is integral to the practice of medicine. Sometimes, QI strays over into clinical research. This presentation provides an overview of the intersection between QI and research
Bea Brown | a locally tailored intervention to improve adherence to a clinica...Sax Institute
Bea Brown gave a presentation on her research for the Sax Institute at the University of Sydney for the School of Public Health's 2013 research presentation day.
Aligning Clinical Practice and Process Improvement for Patient Safety 2014iCareQuality.us
Implementing continuous daily improve¬ment is a standardized approach to reducing clinical variability in patient care delivery. The CLIPSE model engages frontline providers using a collaborative, peer review process, and may positively impact patient outcomes, cost of care, and quality improvement initiatives
Quality improvement is integral to the practice of medicine. Sometimes, QI strays over into clinical research. This presentation provides an overview of the intersection between QI and research
Bea Brown | a locally tailored intervention to improve adherence to a clinica...Sax Institute
Bea Brown gave a presentation on her research for the Sax Institute at the University of Sydney for the School of Public Health's 2013 research presentation day.
Aligning Clinical Practice and Process Improvement for Patient Safety 2014iCareQuality.us
Implementing continuous daily improve¬ment is a standardized approach to reducing clinical variability in patient care delivery. The CLIPSE model engages frontline providers using a collaborative, peer review process, and may positively impact patient outcomes, cost of care, and quality improvement initiatives
ZynxOrder at the 2016 Cerner Middle East Regional User GroupBryony Lott
A short presentation by Mr Grant Goodman, Clinical Transformation Lead at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), on the benefits of integrating evidence-based order sets from ZynxOrder into Cerner Millennium.
HMC is the main provider of secondary and tertiary healthcare in Qatar and one of the leading hospital providers in the Middle East. In this presentation HMC describe why they chose ZynxOrder and how evidence-based order sets support their clinical transformation journey, helping to drive CPOE adoption and improve clinical outcomes.
How to Use Data to Improve Patient Safety: A Two-Part DiscussionHealth Catalyst
As healthcare organizations continue to experience expenses growing faster than revenues, value based care, and consumer transparency of costs and quality, patient safety will be an important determinant of success. This session will describe the sociotechnical attributes of a safe system, the challenges, the barriers and opportunities, and how to use data and your culture of safety as a powerful tool to drive down adverse events.
Attendees will learn:
Why patient safety and quality are important.
How data can help improve patient safety.
The history of patient safety and where we are today.
What components make up a safety analytics culture.
How the internal safety culture directly impacts patient safety metrics.
To describe basic guidelines for improving a safety culture with analytics.
Quality and safety: using information to assure quality and achieve governanceMental Health Partnerships
This presentation by Alison Moores, Director of Nursing and Practice, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, shows how accurate, high quality and timely data is driving improvements in local mental health services.
Alison suggests ingredients for effective quality governance include:
Team to Board lines of accountability
Clarity of standards and metrics to measure them.
Active and ‘real time’ use of information at the right level (ie governance is not about writing reports)
Use the information to measure emerging risk and be clear about the actions that will follow.
Useful questions to consider include:
How do commissioners move from ‘assurance from data’ to ‘assurance that data is being used to improve services’?
How far should quality measures be standardised?
How will providers, commissioners and people who use services work together to decide the measures of quality?
How do we balance data value with data cost?
Team based care model for better productivityJessica Parker
In an old-fashioned practice model, the physician is solely responsible for most, if not all of the work undertaking of his facility, which also involves charge entry, to medical billing and coding till the time of claims reimbursements.
Sally Redman | Early findings from SPIRITSax Institute
Professor Sally Redman AM, CEO of the Sax Institute, recently addressed a CIPHER forum to share how the SPIRIT trial is testing a program designed to increase the use of research in policy and programs.
CIPHER, the Centre for Informing Policy in Health with Evidence from Research, is an Australian collaborative research centre managed by the Sax Institute, that is investigating the tools, skills and systems that might contribute to an increased use of research evidence in policy.
For more information visit www.saxinstitute.org.au.
Adding Value to the EMR: A Clinical PerspectiveHealth Catalyst
Known for leading large-scale healthcare improvement using data and analytics to drive positive change, Dr. Charles Macias speaks to creating greater value in the EMR through analytics. This approach has done more to increase value than many other cost-reduction efforts.
In this webinar you will 1) Explore each component of the value equation, 2) learn how TCH has increased the value of its healthcare using data to drive quality an ever more important need of those facing capitated or value–based care reimbursements and 3) consider a new ROI equation for systems who have invested heavily in their EMRs
Practice Variability in and Correlates of Patient-Centered Medical Home Chara...Marion Sills
Schilling LM, Sills MR, Fairclough D, Kwan MB. Practice Variability in and Correlates of Patient-Centered Medical Home Characteristics. SAFTINet Convocation. Aurora, Colorado. 13 Feb 2013.
To lower health costs, physician networks and medical homes must employ a closed loop population management program that focus on patient SOH stratification, chronic disease management, care coordination and incentive management. This approach will enable them to consistently reduce ER and inpatient admissions, which are the greatest expenditures in health care today.
AbsoluteCARE Receives Three-Year NCQA AccreditationAlan S. Cohn
Health management professional Alan S Cohn is a serves as CEO and president of AbsoluteCARE, a population health management and medical technology company based in Florida. Under Alan S Cohn’s leadership, the company has grown to serve 5,000 chronically ill patients.
Improve Nursing Performance and Staff Engagement using the CLIPSE Model April...iCareQuality.us
Implementing a continuous daily improvement (CDI) program is a simple standardized approach to reducing clinical variability in patient care delivery settings. The CLIPSE model engages front-line care providers using a collaborative, professional peer-peer process, and may positively impact patient outcomes, cost of care, patient safety, and quality improvement initiatives at the point of care (POC).
ZynxOrder at the 2016 Cerner Middle East Regional User GroupBryony Lott
A short presentation by Mr Grant Goodman, Clinical Transformation Lead at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), on the benefits of integrating evidence-based order sets from ZynxOrder into Cerner Millennium.
HMC is the main provider of secondary and tertiary healthcare in Qatar and one of the leading hospital providers in the Middle East. In this presentation HMC describe why they chose ZynxOrder and how evidence-based order sets support their clinical transformation journey, helping to drive CPOE adoption and improve clinical outcomes.
How to Use Data to Improve Patient Safety: A Two-Part DiscussionHealth Catalyst
As healthcare organizations continue to experience expenses growing faster than revenues, value based care, and consumer transparency of costs and quality, patient safety will be an important determinant of success. This session will describe the sociotechnical attributes of a safe system, the challenges, the barriers and opportunities, and how to use data and your culture of safety as a powerful tool to drive down adverse events.
Attendees will learn:
Why patient safety and quality are important.
How data can help improve patient safety.
The history of patient safety and where we are today.
What components make up a safety analytics culture.
How the internal safety culture directly impacts patient safety metrics.
To describe basic guidelines for improving a safety culture with analytics.
Quality and safety: using information to assure quality and achieve governanceMental Health Partnerships
This presentation by Alison Moores, Director of Nursing and Practice, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, shows how accurate, high quality and timely data is driving improvements in local mental health services.
Alison suggests ingredients for effective quality governance include:
Team to Board lines of accountability
Clarity of standards and metrics to measure them.
Active and ‘real time’ use of information at the right level (ie governance is not about writing reports)
Use the information to measure emerging risk and be clear about the actions that will follow.
Useful questions to consider include:
How do commissioners move from ‘assurance from data’ to ‘assurance that data is being used to improve services’?
How far should quality measures be standardised?
How will providers, commissioners and people who use services work together to decide the measures of quality?
How do we balance data value with data cost?
Team based care model for better productivityJessica Parker
In an old-fashioned practice model, the physician is solely responsible for most, if not all of the work undertaking of his facility, which also involves charge entry, to medical billing and coding till the time of claims reimbursements.
Sally Redman | Early findings from SPIRITSax Institute
Professor Sally Redman AM, CEO of the Sax Institute, recently addressed a CIPHER forum to share how the SPIRIT trial is testing a program designed to increase the use of research in policy and programs.
CIPHER, the Centre for Informing Policy in Health with Evidence from Research, is an Australian collaborative research centre managed by the Sax Institute, that is investigating the tools, skills and systems that might contribute to an increased use of research evidence in policy.
For more information visit www.saxinstitute.org.au.
Adding Value to the EMR: A Clinical PerspectiveHealth Catalyst
Known for leading large-scale healthcare improvement using data and analytics to drive positive change, Dr. Charles Macias speaks to creating greater value in the EMR through analytics. This approach has done more to increase value than many other cost-reduction efforts.
In this webinar you will 1) Explore each component of the value equation, 2) learn how TCH has increased the value of its healthcare using data to drive quality an ever more important need of those facing capitated or value–based care reimbursements and 3) consider a new ROI equation for systems who have invested heavily in their EMRs
Practice Variability in and Correlates of Patient-Centered Medical Home Chara...Marion Sills
Schilling LM, Sills MR, Fairclough D, Kwan MB. Practice Variability in and Correlates of Patient-Centered Medical Home Characteristics. SAFTINet Convocation. Aurora, Colorado. 13 Feb 2013.
To lower health costs, physician networks and medical homes must employ a closed loop population management program that focus on patient SOH stratification, chronic disease management, care coordination and incentive management. This approach will enable them to consistently reduce ER and inpatient admissions, which are the greatest expenditures in health care today.
AbsoluteCARE Receives Three-Year NCQA AccreditationAlan S. Cohn
Health management professional Alan S Cohn is a serves as CEO and president of AbsoluteCARE, a population health management and medical technology company based in Florida. Under Alan S Cohn’s leadership, the company has grown to serve 5,000 chronically ill patients.
Improve Nursing Performance and Staff Engagement using the CLIPSE Model April...iCareQuality.us
Implementing a continuous daily improvement (CDI) program is a simple standardized approach to reducing clinical variability in patient care delivery settings. The CLIPSE model engages front-line care providers using a collaborative, professional peer-peer process, and may positively impact patient outcomes, cost of care, patient safety, and quality improvement initiatives at the point of care (POC).
NTTAP Webinar Series - April 13, 2023: Quality Improvement Strategies in a Te...CHC Connecticut
Join us for a webinar on quality improvement in team-based care!
Building a quality improvement (QI) infrastructure within team-based care is an organizational strategy that will establish a culture of continuous improvement across departments and improve quality in all domains of performance.
Participants will learn about:
• QI infrastructure
• Facilitating QI committees
• Coach training within health centers
Faculty will also provide an example of how trained coaches use QI tools to test and implement changes within an organization.
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The Star Model provides a focal point for evidence-based practice activities, including education and interdisciplinary research projects. Projects and investigations are concentrated on two objectives: (a) basic and professional level workforce development for EBP; and (b) the study of the processes and outcomes within evidence-based quality improvement. We study evidence synthesis, translation of evidence into practice, and healthcare provider and organizational change. A short description of representative projects and research follows. Current Research TopicsList of TopicsStar Model Translational Research
This ongoing program expands and tests a model for understanding evidence-based practice. The study of EBP is essentially the study of transforming knowledge produced through primary studies and moving it through adoption into clinical decision-making.
Using the Star Model as a framework, our program of translational research investigates phenomena associated with EBP, including summarizing evidence, clinical guideline development and uptake, organizational culture, and outcome measures. The initial project in this timely program of research was Evaluation of Systematic Reviews Published in Nursing Literature: A Replication, that pointed to the need for more rigorous systematic reviews in nursing. Subsequent projects investigate factors associated with uptake of clinical practice guidelines, innovation, and system culture change.
Top of TopicsStar Model of Knowledge Transformation
Developed in 2004, the Star Model is configured as a simple 5-point star; and it explains how knowledge is transformed at five major stages, starting from primary research, and continuing through the stages of evidence summary, translation, integration, and evaluation. This model places nursing’s previous scientific work within the context of EBP and is proving useful for examining the EBP process, roles in EBP, and research methods with which to investigate EBP.
Adopted by scores of hospitals across the nation as part of their journey to excellence, the Star Model forms a foundation for developing workforce competencies, organizing projects, and employing EBP in clinical settings. Influenced by Imogene King, we continue to evolve the Star Model as a theory, combining concepts of knowledge transformation with elements of communication, mutual goal setting, and systems theory.
Top of TopicsImprovement Science Research Network
While quality improvement activities are highly encouraged in acute care settings, hospitals and improvement scientists are not well connected. Th.
NHS Improving Quality was invited to take part in a recently held event that celebrated the work that is being done in partnership between the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and AQuA to deliver a Quality Improvement Methodologies Programme (QuIMP).
Gillian Phazey, Learning and Organisational Development Manager at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust explains:
'The Learning and Organisational Development and Governance teams at the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust have been working collaboratively with AQuA to deliver a Quality Improvement Methodologies Programme (QuIMP) to support staff in developing knowledge and skills in this topic. The programme has been specifically designed to support colleagues wanting to gain an introduction to the fundamentals and concepts of quality improvement. So far, two cohorts of staff, from clinical and non-clinical areas of the Trust have completed the programme, and have completed quality improvement projects in their own work area to apply their knowledge. On 17th July a celebration event was held for cohort 2 where staff presented their work in poster or presentation form, the aim of which is to share and spread learning across the Trust. Projects were wide ranging, from introducing new processes to reduce complaints and drug errors, to improving patient experience by implementing new tools and techniques. The day was a great success with the Chief Executive and Chief Nurse in attendance. The Trust is highly supportive of this approach in equipping staff with these important techniques, and the programme supports not only our internal quality agenda and objectives, but more widely responds to the recommendations of the Berwick report. The next cohort is starting in September this year.'
Fiona Thow, Patient Safety Collaborative Delivery Lead at NHS Improving Quality delivered a keynote speech, (link to presentation slides) providing a national perspective on the plans for improving patient safety and took the opportunity to introduce the national safety collaboratives. She also highlighted the need for organisations and individuals to think differently about safety for both patients and staff.