Performance Improvement Methods in Healthcare

March 7, 2013 - PRLog -- Why should you attend: Too often hospitals select improvement methodologies and strategies without fully defining the problems they are trying to resolve. There are four things hospitals should know: the rate of organization variability, the rate of waste, the types of defects in the system and the rate of process variability. Less than 10 percent of health care organizations know where they stand in all four areas. The high performers manage to achieve all.

If an organization is clear on what it wants to accomplish, it makes it easier to determine how to get there. Hospital leaders must set a clear vision for what the organization needs to accomplish. Specific goals, such as eliminating the occurrence of central line bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and the number of re-admissions should be set, along with establishing a framework for change.

Areas Covered in the Session:
The business case for quality
Teams in healthcare performance improvement
Minimizing the door-t0-doctor time
Process tools
Medical informatics for performance improvement
Essential statistical thinking
Standardization
Lean process management
Six sigma principles
Integration of performance improvement systems
Heuristics for performance improvement

Who Will Benefit:

Chief Medical Officers
Hospital Administrators
Physicians
Nurses
Department Clinicians such as Radiology, Surgery, Emergency Medicine
Quality Assurance staff
Patient Safety staff
Pharmacy Staff

Dev Raheja, MS,CSP, A respected and sought out expert on hospital safety, author of Safer Hospital Care: Strategies for Continuous Innovation draws on his 25 years of experience as a risk management and quality assurance consultant to provide hospital stakeholders with a systematic way to learn the science of safe care. He teaches “Quality Improvement Methods in Healthcare” for the BBA program in Healthcare Management at Florida Tech University. He has written over 20 articles on healthcare quality and safety, and is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives.