Optimal Care - Health IT is Key
Optimal Care - Health IT is one of the Key
Optimal Care means an Independent, Assisted or Continuous Care community to provide the necessary supports required to maintain independence and dignity. With changing times and thanks to the pandemic, as a whole all sectors have realised the power & convenience IT has brought in, it is particularly true in healthcare sector.?
Delivering optimal care is an ongoing process. Clinical care along with secure IT is built on the foundation of evidence based care and moves through a continuous cycle of?
Effective use of Health IT helps in making the right information available to the right people at the right time. This in turn enables to provides optimal, continuous care which also fuels the improvement cycle of any healthcare system.?
Measure Results
The process of enhancing care starts with measuring the results of current processes and practice patterns.
Measurement is essential to optimizing health care. It offers insight into provider performance, identifies areas for improvement, and increases transparency. Common types of measures used to assess health care quality include structure, process, outcome, patient experience, and cost. The data that health IT helps to provide optimal patient care. Measures empower providers, from the largest hospital system to the smallest physician practice, to assess the quality and results of their current processes and prioritize improvements.
Quality measurement provides tangible feedback to clinicians and other health care team members about care processes and outcomes. Teams can use this feedback to identify opportunities to improve care and outcomes for their patients.
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Electronic Quality Measurement Systems (eQMS)
eQMS are measures of health care quality specified to be calculated using electronic clinical data stored and shared by health IT systems, such as EHRs.? eQMSs differ from older clinical quality measures because they convert information about care processes or outcomes into a rate or percentage that allows providers, facilities, and patients to measure and evaluate aspects of care. Once eQMSs have been integrated into a health IT system, they can run in the background, seamlessly measuring practice results.
Prioritize Improvements
Organizations can use quality measurement results to help identify areas for improvement and develop improvement plans. Improvement targets may include internal objectives aligned with progress toward program goals or benchmarks. Internal priorities for improvement might also be identified supporting more internal goals for performance improvement.
Building a plan requires a quality improvement strategy and methodology. Clinician practices and other health care organizations that may not have these in place can access a variety of resources to help develop them. In such cases, many components of health IT can factor into improvement opportunities and potentially accelerate strategies. However, while considering opportunities and developing strategy, organizations should remain focused on activities that will yield the highest value, through such benefits as improved patient care and clinician work satisfaction.
Implement and Monitor Improvements
After identifying meaningful goals, improvement often begins with defining the workflow and process updates to achieve the desired results. Organization Heads often observe that all improvement represents change, but not all changes lead to improvement.? Organizations must continuously evaluate whether their process changes are having the desired effects. If not, they can make further modifications until they achieve their performance improvement goals.
Structured tools that help document and manage processes, as well as any challenges or barriers, help monitor and optimize the impact of improvement approaches. Ongoing measurement and process assessment is critical to identifying success and opportunities for further progress.
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