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This document provides information on quality improvement strategies, protocols, and evidence-based healthcare. It discusses principles of designing information systems and strategies for evaluating them. It also covers quality improvement tools like the PDCA cycle and factors that help create and sustain healthcare informatics as a new field. The learning objectives are outlined on quality improvement tools, factors to create healthcare informatics, and understanding the PDCA cycle. The introduction defines quality and different approaches to defining it. Six criteria for right healthcare are also mentioned.
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- 2. Module 4: Chapter 2 DESIGNANDEVALUATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMSAND SERVICES QUALITY IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES PROTOCOLSAND EVIDENCE BASED HEALTHCARE
- 3. Module Content Design andEvaluation of Information Systems and Services: principles of designing information systems, strategies for Information system evaluation, Information Systems Effectiveness Measures. Quality Improvement Strategies: quality improvement tools, factors that help to create and sustain Healthcare Informatics as a new field. quality improvement cycle: PDCA (Plan, Do, Check,Act) Cycle. Protocols and Evidence based Healthcare: information technology tools to support best practices in health care, information technology tools that inform and empower patients.
- 4. LearningObjectives Quality improvementtools Factors that help to create and sustain Healthcare Informatics as a new field Quality improvement cycle: PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) Cycle.
- 5. Introduction Interestingly, someof the most common words in medicine are the most difficult to define and “quality” is one of those hard to describe terms. One approach to quality is to say that it is the standard of care for the society in which the physician practices. In other words, poor quality care is care that does not meet the current standard of care. Clearly, this definition relies on our knowing the current standard of care. One can say that the current standard of care is the practice of evidence-based medicine and, in the situation where there is little reliable evidence, the care provided by most experienced physicians.
- 6. Six criteria of theright health care Safe: care does not harm patients Effective: care prevents disease and complications and minimizes suffering, disability and death Efficient: patients receive care without waste Patient centered: care is coordinated and continuous; patients are informed and educated and involved in decision making Timely: patients and staff do not experience unwanted delay Equitable: care is equal, regardless of race, language, personal resources, diagnosis or condition
- 7. Quality Improvement Roadmap Publish qualitymeasurements and information: Use the same performance measures among all health care organizations and select those that are the most evidence based Pay-for-performance: “quality improvement and reimbursement methodology aimed at changing current payment structure which primarily reimburses based on the number of services provided regardless of outcome. Attempts to introduce market forces and competition to promote payment for quality, access, efficiency and successful outcomes.” Promote health information technology: Includes the adoption of electronic health records, e-prescribing and health information exchanges Work through partnerships: Select national, federal, and civilian quality-oriented partners (e.g. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, NationalQuality Forum, American Health Quality Association and NationalCommittee on Quality Assurance) Improve access to better treatments: Accelerate the availability and effective use of the best treatments
- 8. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 1. Health Informatics for the benefit of the public Health Informatics offers useful insights by viewing electronic healthcare records available to the public to access. It is a resource that cannot be withheld from an individual because of its unique characteristics and benefits. Health informatics can greatly contribute to the well-being of the entire population.
- 9. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 2.Voice Dictation Since healthcare organizations have incorporated digital technology, health informatics improves artificial intelligence voice recognition to transcribe providers’ notes and medical orders in real-time.This can reduce the time spent on data entry and increase providers’ time interacting directly with their patients. Innovative health informatics enables us to find a voice recognition solution that is accurate and time-efficient.
- 10. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 3. EHR Alert Optimization EHR instant alerts can act as a useful resource to improve care by notifying a healthcare provider about issues, such as screenings, drug interactions, chronic disease management, and overdue lab tests. However, alerts need to be optimized to prevent healthcare providers from becoming overwhelmed and distracted. Health informatics help to manage EHR alerts to make them more useful. Some typical approaches to achieve this are customizing alerts to each patient or changing the design of alerts by color or format.
- 11. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 4. Predictive Analytics In healthcare informatics, predictive analytics analyses large volumes of data to learn about common symptoms, diagnoses, workflows, and other health outcomes. It helps doctors analyses and diagnose cases early on, including mental health conditions. Health informatics is versatile and can enable providers to make better care decisions, and it offers accurate predictive analytics that supports population health management.
- 12. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 5. Surveillance of syndromes With predictive analytics and EHR alerts, health informatics promotes real-time patient surveillance to identify potential health risks early on.The analyzed surveillance can be applied to real-time diagnoses to implement necessary precautions.The integration of real-time clinical decision support can be improved with medical informatics. IT informatics can be applied to reduce the potential of human error and enhance overall public health.
- 13. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 6. Savings Healthcare is expensive, where it is estimated that half of all medical expenditures are spent on repeated procedures, delays in care, and errors in care or delivery. Health informatics manages the costs by making everything electronic and connected and saving time. Lab results reach physicians sooner, patients can access and download their data quickly, and providers can discuss integrated care cases soon to arrive at decisions quickly.
- 14. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 7. Shared Knowledge Clinical informatics offers insights into patients, diseases, and medicines. Since knowledge is easily passed between providers and patients, health informatics enhances practice management. In this way, clinical informatics technology helps everyone within the care chain, from hospital administrators and physicians to pharmacists and patients.
- 15. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 8. Patient Participation Health informatics provides patients access to their electronic health history and recommendations.This empowers them to participate in their treatment actively. Patients who can access care portals can educate themselves better about their diagnoses and manage their symptoms.These patients can also interact with doctors and nurses more easily, resulting in better health outcomes. Health informatics allows patients to feel important in their health treatment.
- 16. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 9. Improved Patient Outcomes One of the significant ways health informatics transforms healthcare is improved patient outcomes. Electronic medical records enable providers to deliver higher quality care and secure care.This is because health informatics improves predictive analysis that supports better diagnoses and decreases errors. Clinicians and nurses can increase performance efficiency with medical informatics technology. In this way, health informatics frees up physicians’ time with patients by automating manual operations and improving cost-efficiency.
- 17. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 10. Better and more efficient data storage Most medical facilities use traditional manual methods to store patient records for a long period. Even now, this is true for many healthcare institutions dealing with tons of files and paperwork daily. This is a major concern in modern healthcare, and it can be addressed with health informatics. Healthcare informatics makes data accessible, where doctors can get hands-on the right information quickly.This is time- consuming and helps to diagnose cases rapidly.Clinical informatics also manages the administrative workload and improves their performance efficiency. Providers are also notified about potential health risks through predictive analysis with health informatics.
- 18. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 11. Improved healthcare marketing It is important to realize its significance in marketing when learning about health informatics. Marketing is not just proving that one medical practice is better than the other. Healthcare marketing is about patient education, and both marketers and healthcare professionals must understand it. With health informatics, private practices and hospitals better introduce their services to people. For example, hospitals can spread awareness about an emerging trend in health care. Many practices use social media platforms to communicate services with health informatics.They use videos, images, and informative content to promote services to patients and gain better patient outcomes.
- 19. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 12. Promoting self-monitoring Health informatics technology has encouraged patients to self- monitor their conditions, and it is the key to improving patient participation and health outcomes. Patients are more aware of their vitals and follow the doctor’s advice. In this way, critical conditions can be prevented from occurring or escalating.
- 20. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 13. Consistent monitoring of serious cases The Internet ofThings (IoT) has benefitted the healthcare sector due to its potential to save lives and contribute to society. It simplifies connecting medical devices to the internet and makes it easier to integrate health informatics systems. Patients do not need to visit the doctor’s office personally and can get input, information, and advice from their doctors in real-time virtually.
- 21. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 14. 3D organs and limbs An important concern in the healthcare industry is providing organs for people that need transplants.The waiting list can seem never-ending, which is why many people are losing their lives. Health informatics can include 3D printing technology and software to standard practices. A patient being monitored by a doctor will receive a notification or alert about their condition, and patients can plan further treatment once they are notified about a new organ. With 3D printers, physicians can print real tissue cells and make idea organs.This can increase the lifespan of patients and reduce the number of patients dying due to not finding an organ on time.
- 22. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 15. Robotic service In surgical procedures, irrespective of the expertise of surgeons, human error remains a major concern. The margin of error is less, and one wrong decision or mistake can have life-threatening consequences. Medical errors are one of the main causes of death in the U.S, with a record of 250,000 patients losing their lives.With health informatics, robots can perform basic tasks like measuring vital signs, bringing equipment, and assisting human surgeons.
- 23. Factors that help tocreate and sustain Healthcare Informatics 16. Privacy Health informatics is crucial for data confidentiality and patient privacy. It ensures that no data breaches and issues related to compromised data are managed. Doctor’s notes and diagnoses are recorded safely on cloud-based systems. Patients will trust their physicians and will not hesitate to supply vital information. Health informatics can support the secure exchange of data from multiple smart devices.
- 24. Quality improvement cycle: PDCA (Plan, Do, Check,Act) Cycle. What Is PDCA? In the 1950s, management consultant DrWilliam Edwards Deming developed a method of identifying why some products or processes don't work as hoped. His approach has since become a popular strategy tool, used by many different types of organizations. It allows them to formulate theories about what needs to change, and then test them in a "continuous feedback loop."
- 25. The Four Phases ofthe PDCACycle With the PDCA cycle you can solve problems and implement solutions in a rigorous, methodical way. Let's look at each of the four stages in turn: 1. Plan First, identify and understand your problem or opportunity. Perhaps the standard of a finished product isn't high enough, or an aspect of your marketing process should be getting better results. Explore the information available in full. Generate and screen ideas, and develop a robust implementation plan. Be sure to state your success criteria and make them as measurable as possible.You'll return to them later in the Check stage.
- 26. The Four Phases ofthe PDCACycle 2. Do Once you've identified a potential solution, test it safely with a small-scale pilot project.This will show whether your proposed changes achieve the desired outcome – with minimal disruption to the rest of your operation if they don't. For example, you could organize a trial within a department, in a limited geographical area, or with a particular demographic. As you run the pilot project, gather data to show whether the change has worked or not.You'll use this in the next stage. 3. Check Next, analyze your pilot project's results against the criteria that you defined in Step 1, to assess whether your idea was a success. If it wasn't, return to Step 1. If it was, advance to Step 4. You may decide to try out more changes, and repeat the Do and Check phases. But if your original plan definitely isn't working, you'll need to return to Step 1. 4. Act This is where you implement your solution. But remember that PDCA/PDSA is a loop, not a process with a beginning and end.Your improved process or product becomes the new baseline, but you continue to look for ways to make it even better.
- 27. The Four Phases ofthe PDCACycle
- 28. When toUse PDCA ThePDCA/PDSA framework works well in all types of organizations. It can be used to improve any process or product, by breaking them down into smaller steps or development stages, and exploring ways to improve each one. It's particularly helpful for implementingTotal Quality Management or Six Sigma initiatives, and for improving business processes generally. However, going through the PDCA/PDSA cycle can be much slower than a straightforward, "gung ho" implementation. So, it might not be the appropriate approach for dealing with an urgent problem. It also requires significant buy-in from team members, and offers fewer opportunities for radical innovation – which may be what your organization needs instead.
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