Sunday, May 23, 2010

Clinical Pathways

  • Employ industrial engineering science to refine clinical pathways.
  • This approach uses continuous learning from the hospital floor as oppose to attempting to define a perfect clinical pathway before using

 

Apply Lean Sigma techniques to improve Health Care

  • Lean Sigma combines two continuous improvement principles – reduce elapsed time and employ statistical analysis to improve quality
  • Both of these practices were developed by manufacturing industry to improve product quality, offer custom product at mass production prices
  • Using data from Clinical Message solution, continuously develop and implement improved process

 

What does “Meaningful Use” of Electronic Medical Records mean?

  • The five core principles – Improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health disparities, Engage patients and families, improve care coordination, ensure adequate privacy & security protection for personal health information , improve population and public health
  • CM provides a flexible architecture to quickly extract and synthesize EMR information and distribute to point of care clinician reliably.
  • Use Lean Sigma principles to analyze CM Data to creates continuous improvement practices