Description: This module will help you develop a process for continuous quality measurement so that you can continually improve the results of your target-specific performance improvement efforts.
Action Steps:
- Monitor Use, Usability for each Intervention (Worksheet 9-2a, 9-2b: Use and Usability Issues Log) Optional
- Monitor Results Worksheet 9-3a, 9-3b: Performance against Objectives
- Establish Maintenance (Worksheets 4-1: CDS Knowledge Asset Inventory, 9-4: Decision Log Optional)
- Owner, Reviews, Revisions, Feedback
- EHR Optimization
- Consider EHR Capabilities
- Monitor and Enhance Workflow Processes
- CDS Template (see Excel file at the bottom of the page and click on the down arrow on the right of the document to download)
- Unit 3.3: Map Workflows
- Interview, Observe, Involve Stakeholders
- Target Workflow and Information Flow Processes to Improve
- Build Target-related Templates and Order sets
- Align Provider Preferences and Organizational Goals
- Customized (by Provider) vs. Standardized (by Organization or Specialty)
More Information on the Topic:
HIMSS CDS Guidebook Excerpts
Source: CDS Guidebook, Chapter 9: Measuring Results and Continuously Refining the Program
Other Materials:
AHRQ Quality Indicators Implementation Measurement Tool
Tool to help determine effectiveness of implemented processes/interventions
AHRQ Quality Indicators Ongoing Monitoring for Sustainable Improvement
- Choose a limited set of effective measures.
- Establish a schedule for regular reporting.
- Develop report formats to communicate clearly.
- Establish procedures for acting on problems identified.
- Assess sustainability on a periodic basis
AHRQ: Quality Measurement Enabled by Health IT
- Overview of health IT-enabled quality measurement
- Discusses possibilities and challenges to achieving the next generation of health IT-enabled quality measurement
- Describes over 80 Federal, State, regional, and private activities seeking to improve health-IT enabled quality measurement
2010-09-23 MU CoP Workshop Slides
This presentation was developed by RTI International and provides RECs with tools and resources to help their providers with measuring EHR functionality and reporting clinical quality measures (CQMs).
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