New HIMSS site covers quality improvement basics
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has launched Quality 101, an online resource for the basics and metrics of quality measurement and improvement.
The HIMSS Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes Committee developed the website as a portal into the world of quality measurement and improvement, according to the Chicago-based organization. Quality 101 components will be introduced in phases each quarter. Phase 1, now live, is a primer on quality measures; Phase 2 will focus on the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle approach to quality improvement and related quality components.
“Quality measurement and improvement activities have, until recently, been running on separate tracks and parallel tracks with the adoption of health IT. With the passage of ARRA [American Recovery and Reinvestment Act] and the meaningful use requirements for incentive payment from CMS [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services], we have the de facto merging of these two activities,” said Lou Diamond, vice president and medical director, Healthcare and Scientific, at Thomson Reuters, and chair of HIMSS' Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes Committee.
Quality 101 serves as an information aggregator, according to HIMSS. Visitors to the website will find the information about the basics of quality improvement, key industry players, quality and meaningful use, public reporting, the relationship of quality and cost, clinical decision support, and resources.
Visit Quality 101 here.
The HIMSS Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes Committee developed the website as a portal into the world of quality measurement and improvement, according to the Chicago-based organization. Quality 101 components will be introduced in phases each quarter. Phase 1, now live, is a primer on quality measures; Phase 2 will focus on the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle approach to quality improvement and related quality components.
“Quality measurement and improvement activities have, until recently, been running on separate tracks and parallel tracks with the adoption of health IT. With the passage of ARRA [American Recovery and Reinvestment Act] and the meaningful use requirements for incentive payment from CMS [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services], we have the de facto merging of these two activities,” said Lou Diamond, vice president and medical director, Healthcare and Scientific, at Thomson Reuters, and chair of HIMSS' Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes Committee.
Quality 101 serves as an information aggregator, according to HIMSS. Visitors to the website will find the information about the basics of quality improvement, key industry players, quality and meaningful use, public reporting, the relationship of quality and cost, clinical decision support, and resources.
Visit Quality 101 here.