Presented by Dr. Cristina de la Torre for a November 2013 webinar.
Access the webinar recording at https://universityofnc.adobeconnect.com/p23708adzuz/
The term Software as a Medical Device is defined by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) as "software intended to be used for one or more medical purposes that perform these purposes without being part of a hardware medical device." Use of Software as a Medical Device is continuing to increase.
Startup Business Plan Template for Entrepreneursupmetrics.co
If you are planning to launch a new startup, the first thing you will need is a business plan. Use our startup business plan template created using Upmetrics business plan software to start writing your business plan in no time.
Before you start writing your business plan for your startup, spend as much time as you can reading through some sample business plans created for startups. Reading sample business plans will give you a good idea of what you’re aiming for. It will also show you the different sections that different entrepreneurs include and the language they use to write about themselves and their business goals.
We have created this startup business plan template to get a good idea about what a perfect startup business plan should look like and what details you will need to include in your stunning business plan.
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> The Health 2.0 Conference is a unique platform that unites passionate healthcare
professionals and spotlights the latest advancements and innovations in the healthcare
and wellness world.
> The three-day conference will feature informative keynotes and thought-provoking
panel discussions which will shed light on a wide range of relevant topics.
> With the Health 2.0 Conference, we hope to promote knowledge sharing and networking
amongst visionaries who seek to find solutions to complex healthcare challenges.
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The term Software as a Medical Device is defined by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) as "software intended to be used for one or more medical purposes that perform these purposes without being part of a hardware medical device." Use of Software as a Medical Device is continuing to increase.
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We have created this startup business plan template to get a good idea about what a perfect startup business plan should look like and what details you will need to include in your stunning business plan.
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We’ll cover the fundamentals of user experience, why it matters, and we’ll detail a typical UX journey and common methodologies that are useful for museum professionals, emphasizing ways to engage new and existing communities along the way. We’ll practice research techniques, including interviews and contextual inquiries (observing the way your visitors already interact with your exhibits), that allow you to learn about your visitors’ objectives, rather than designing from assumptions. We’ll develop personas to clarify which new audiences you want to connect with, and what works best for them, asking questions like, Why aren’t they users already? What barriers does your museum present? What needs could you be meeting?
> The Health 2.0 Conference is a unique platform that unites passionate healthcare
professionals and spotlights the latest advancements and innovations in the healthcare
and wellness world.
> The three-day conference will feature informative keynotes and thought-provoking
panel discussions which will shed light on a wide range of relevant topics.
> With the Health 2.0 Conference, we hope to promote knowledge sharing and networking
amongst visionaries who seek to find solutions to complex healthcare challenges.
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Main takeaways:
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This was something I created sometime back when I was the Membership Development Director of the RI District 3220 and it was used as the official introductory presentation.
I have created this document with inputs from various sources. Some are taken right from slideshare. I just try to make this topic little compact and lucid, so that everybody can understand it easily
For pharmaceuticals and biotech companies, medical, legal, and regulatory reviews (MLRs) are commonplace, and help ensure that product claims, promotions, and training are medically correct, and in compliance with FDA and other industry standards. This requires companies to develop an MLR process that helps assure the accuracy, relevancy, and value of the promotional material they produce and market.
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Measuring Ethnic and Sexual Identities: Lessons from Two Studies in Central A...MEASURE Evaluation
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This was something I created sometime back when I was the Membership Development Director of the RI District 3220 and it was used as the official introductory presentation.
I have created this document with inputs from various sources. Some are taken right from slideshare. I just try to make this topic little compact and lucid, so that everybody can understand it easily
For pharmaceuticals and biotech companies, medical, legal, and regulatory reviews (MLRs) are commonplace, and help ensure that product claims, promotions, and training are medically correct, and in compliance with FDA and other industry standards. This requires companies to develop an MLR process that helps assure the accuracy, relevancy, and value of the promotional material they produce and market.
Including AIDS-affected young people in OVC research: Challenges and opportu...MEASURE Evaluation
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Measuring Ethnic and Sexual Identities: Lessons from Two Studies in Central A...MEASURE Evaluation
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http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/publications/ms-11-46-a
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QI Plan Part One
Davis Healthcare Improvement
Davis Healthcare is a dedicated team of professionals to providing efficient services and patient care delivering. However, each healthcare service requires improvements in one or more sectors to improve the quality of services rendered to the patients. Therefore, focusing on each aspect of development within the healthcare service, Davis Healthcare must make amendments and specific improvements to particular sections of its organization.
Among the required sectors of development include productivity management. This section entails activities that ensure service delivery to various patients and proper coordination with staff to coordinate patient care. Different data collection tools and analyses techniques and instruments must be used to have the appropriate data required for analysis in this section, (Panesar, Carson-Stevens, Salvilla, & Sheikh, 2014). Nice, but what is the topic you will be talking about – HAC, HAI, handwashing, pt identification, med errors? etc
Data Collection
Data collection is aimed at obtaining appropriate data and information required to ensure that correct information is managed within the organization's settings for proper analysis and fact evaluation. The kind of data needed to monitor improvements include data on specific statistics regarding delivery of services, feedback from patients, recovery rates, as well as patient care response.
Some of the tools that can be used in data collection include surveys, questionnaires, and interviews. These collection devices are used in gathering data from the field and various respondents appropriately before indulging in analysis and improvement process of the healthcare delivery sector (Blischke, Karim, & Murthy, 2011).
Surveys are short questions issued to various persons with specific answer sets and defined sets of questions. These studies are aimed at targeted forms of responses within the community and organization. The surveys are given out to respondents across the field area, to achieve issue objectively where the respondents can respond to the questions categorically.
· Surveys are easily formed as they are simple problems and can be sent through emails or other forums to the various respondents across the field of study.
· Informational content on the improvement of productivity management is categorized into obvious questions that can easily be understood by the different respondents within the responses.
· The response fields have areas that can be expounded upon to give more detailed information about a particular service or area of study. According to surveys, information available on specific areas of study and the challenges that each department undertakes in productivity management can be recorded in the survey answers.
· Some of the cons of using surveys include problems in understanding questions asked to the various departments. Moreover, categorizing each study ...
The Municipal Reference Model provides the Business Architecture for Government, based on an outside-in, citizen-centred view, in which the business of government is defined by the programs and services that it provides to citizens.
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Davis Health Care is dedicated to providing an excellent patient care experience. A recent survey indicated that they could improve their quality of service. Imagine you are charged with identifying an area of improvement for this organization.
Select one area of improvement from the following list to complete Part 1 and Part 2 of this assignment:
· Patient safety
· Staff development and team improvement
· Productivity management
· Patient education
· Another area of improvement - Needs faculty approval
You will focus on this area of improvement throughout the remainder of the course, which will lead to a quality improvement plan in the final week.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following prompts for the area of improvement that you selected from above:
Part 1: Data Collection Tools
· Explain data needed to monitor improvements.
· Explain at least three data collection tools you can use to collect performance information.
· Explain the types of information each tool collects.
· Explain the strengths and weaknesses of each data collection tool.
· Explain how the data collection tools are similar. Explain how the data collection tools are different.
Part 2: Data Display, Measurement and Reporting
· Identify at least two tools that measure and display the QI data that can be gathered with the data collection tools identified in Part 1.
· Explain the types of information each tool measures, displays, and reports.
· Explain each measurement, display, and reporting tool's strengths and weaknesses.
· Explain how the measurement, display, and reporting tools are similar and different from each other.
· Explain how the measurement, display and reporting tools are useful for health care organizations.
Cite at least 3 sources according to APA guidelines to support your information.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
QI Plan Part One
Davis Healthcare Improvement
Davis Healthcare is a dedicated team of professionals to providing efficient services and patient care delivering. However, each healthcare service requires improvements in one or more sectors to improve the quality of services rendered to the patients. Therefore, focusing on each aspect of development within the healthcare service, Davis Healthcare must make amendments and specific improvements to particular sections of its organization.
Among the required sectors of development include productivity management. This section entails activities that ensure service delivery to various patients and proper coordination with staff to coordinate patient care. Different data collection tools and analyses techniques and instruments must be used to have the appropriate data required for analysis in this section, (Panesar, Carson-Stevens, Salvilla, & Sheikh, 2014). Nice, but what is the topic you will be talking about – HAC, HAI, handwashing, pt identification, med errors? etc
Data Collection
Data col ...
TIHR (Olivia Joyner + Joe Cullen) and HSMC (Deborah Davidson) presented emerging findings from the service evaluation on accessing the potential and progress of web-based feedback for quality improvement in the Health Service at the prestigious 7th Biennial Conference in Organisational Behaviour in Health Care in April 2010.
A series of modules on project cycle, planning and the logical framework, aimed at team leaders of international NGOs in developing countries.
Part 7 of 11.
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Whole systems change across a neighbourhood
How can we collaborate with people to help them build their resilience? Get under the skin of the culture and the lives people live. Identify people’s feelings and experiences of community and understand what people think is shaped by different values and by the environment and infrastructure around them. The future of collaboration could bring many opportunities but people find it more difficult to live and act together than before. How can we help people…and communities build their resilience? Understand people’s different situations and capabilities to develop pathways that help them build resilient relationships. Help people experience and practice change together. Help people grow everyday practices into sustainable projects. Turn people’s everyday motivations into design principles. Support infrastructure that connects different cultures of collaboration. Build relationships with people designing in collaboration for the future…now.
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Monitoring Referrals to Strengthen Service Integration
1. Monitoring referrals to
strengthen service integration
Cristina de la Torre, MPH, DSc.
MEASURE Evaluation/ICF International
Cristina.delatorre@icfi.com
2. Health services integration
Objectives
Improve efficiency, reduce costs
Increase access to and coverage of services
Increase use of wider range of services
(e.g. minimum package of services)
Meet diverse health needs of clients
Improve health outcomes
3. Models of integration
1. Single provider – multiple services
2. Multiple services on site – different providers
3. Linking services across sites
4. Components of an effective referral system
Group of organizations providing comprehensive range
of services within a defined geographic region
Directory of services & providers
Referral protocols
Processes to facilitate referral completion
Information exchange across providers, including
feedback loop
Tracking of referrals (standardized registers, client
referral forms)
Coordinating unit
Adapted from: FHI 2005
6. Specify the referral system of interest
Nature of system to be studied
Program(s) included
Geographic coverage
Organizations
Range of services offered
Referral systems vs referral networks
7. Referral Assessment and Monitoring
(RSAM) Toolkit
Provide tools and guidance for studying the
performance of referral system
Assess overall functioning of the referral system
Establish a routine monitoring system of referrals
Adapt tools, gather, analyze and interpret data
on referral system performance
8. Considerations
Flexibility: Adaptable to
Different programs & types of services
Structure of referral systems
Limit burden of data collection
Use data commonly collected by service providers
User-friendly
9. RSAM Toolkit Components
Referral system assessment (RSA)
In-depth examination of processes and
mechanisms at given point in time
Referral system monitoring (RSM)
Routine data to track levels of referral initiation
and completion across services
10. RSAM TOOLKIT
Referral System Assessment
Focus on processes and systems
How the referral system is structured
How networks are formed
Whether written referral protocols and guidelines exist
The processes providers follow to refer and counter-refer
clients
How well referrals are tracked and followed up
Barriers to referral initiation and referral completion
11. Referral System Assessment
Provides a snapshot of the referral system at a
given point in time
Can be used to evaluate changes in performance
if applied repeatedly
Evaluate effectiveness of interventions
14. Referral System Assessment
Other information provided in toolkit:
Who should implement an RSA
Resources needed
Selecting facilities
Adapting instruments
Guidelines for analysis
How and why to involve stakeholders
15. RSAM TOOLKIT
Referral System Monitoring
Routine data from facilities
How often referrals are made to different services?
What types of services are clients most often referred to?
Are clients able to take advantage of the referrals?
Is adequate follow-up provided after the fact?
Are referrals equitable across gender or age groups?
16. Referral system monitoring
Key indicators:
Referral initiation
% clients referred from service A to service B
Referral completion
% of referred clients who complete referral
Counter-referral
% of clients who complete referral who are seen
again by initiating provider
19. (TO BE COMPLETED BY REFERRING SERVICE)
PAGE 1 of 3
Name of organization and facility: _____________________________________
Geographic unit: _______________________________
Reporting period—Month: ______ Year: __________ Prepared by: ________________________
1. Number of clients referred by type of service
Group for which data are reported—Age range: _______________ Sex: ______________
COLUM
NY
REFERRING
SERVICE
Service 1
(FP)
Service 2
(VCT)
Service 3
(STI)
Service 4
(ART)
Service 5
Service 6
TOTAL
NUMBER
CLIENTS
SEEN AT
REFERRING
SERVICE
CLIENTS REFERRED
TO
RECEIVING SERVICES
Service 1
(FP)
Service 2
(VCT)
Service 3
(STI)
Service 4
(ART)
Service 5
Service 6
20. Indicator Reporting Form
Geographic unit: _____________________Region: _____________________________________
Reporting period—Month: _______ Year: _________Prepared by: _________________________
Group for which data are reported—Age range: _______________ Sex: ______________
Referring
Service
Receiving
Service
Service 1
Service 1
Service 1
Service 2
Service 2
Service 2
Service 3
Service 3
Etc.
Service 2
Service 3
Service 4
Service 1
Service 3
Service 4
Service 1
Service 2
Etc.
Indicator 1:
Proportion of
clients
referred from
initiating service
Indicator 2:
Indicator 3:
Proportion of
Proportion of
referred clients
referred clients
that completed seen at receiving
referral at
service that is seen
receiving facility back at referring
service for counterreferral
23. Benefits of monitoring and assessing referrals
Aid in Identifying:
under or over-utilized services
providers who are not referring patients
access or quality issues that impede service
utilization
linkages between services that are not
sufficiently established
Aid in planning, resource allocation
24. Referral System Assessment and Monitoring (RSAM) Toolkit
(MEASURE Evaluation)
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure/publications/MS-13-60
25. The research presented here has been supported by the
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
through the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) under the terms of MEASURE
Evaluation cooperative agreement GHA-A-00-08-0000300. Views expressed are not necessarily those of
PEPFAR, USAID or the United States government.
MEASURE Evaluation is implemented by the Carolina
Population Center at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in partnership with Futures Group, ICF
International, John Snow, Inc., Management Sciences for
Health, and Tulane University.