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The Business Case for Quality

Decision making in today's health care organizations requires a continuous balancing act, often involving tradeoffs to meet various clinical and business needs. For decisions related to quality, it is especially important to be able to provide a sound rationale for the choices that are made.

To prepare for this Discussion:

• Bring to mind a specific quality or safety challenge that might be encountered in a health care organization (choose a type of organization that is of particular interest to you).
• Review the information presented in the Learning Resources, including the "Making the Business Case for Quality Management" section on pages 128141 inMedical Quality Management.
• Consider how and why you would suggest an organization address this challenge. Examine the following considerations, as well as others that would inform your response:
• • What are the driving forces or most compelling reasons for addressing this challenge?
  • How might financial constraints impact this situation?
  • What other resources might be limited within the organization? How could these resource constraints influence this situation?
  • What role might pay-for-performance play?
  • How could the short- and long-term financial outcomes of this situation be assessed? How would the return on investment be determined?
  • Who are the key stakeholders that would need to be included or considered in this decision?
  • What are the expected benefits? What unanticipated consequences might occur?

Note: You may find it helpful to preview the Application Assignment and use this Discussion to inform your focus for that assignment.

Post by Day 4a response to the following:

• Identify the quality or safety challenge you are addressing in the first line of your posting.
• Briefly describe the quality or safety challenge.
• Explain how and why you would suggest an organization address this challenge. Present a succinct analysis of three or more business considerations that inform your response.

Dr. Skip put these article into help with this weeks work.

• Course Text:Medical Quality Management: Theory and Practice
• • Chapter5,"MedicalInformatics" Thischapterdiscussestheuseoftechnologyforhealthinformatics,especiallyasitrelatestoqualityandpatientsafety.
  • Chapter6,"EconomicsandFinanceinMedicalQualityManagement" Thischapteraddressesthebusinesscaseforquality,andexaminesfundamentaleconomicandfinancialconceptsastheyrelatetohealthcarequality.
• Article:Wachter,R.M.(2006).Expectedandunanticipatedconsequencesofthequalityandinformationtechnologyrevolutions.JournaloftheAmericanMedicalAssociation,295(23),27802783.RetrievedfromtheWaldenLibrarydatabases. Theauthorexaminesissuesrelatedtoqualityandsafetyefforts,includingunanticipatedconsequencesofcomputerization.
• Article:Leatherman,S.,Berwick,D.,Iles,D.,Lewin,L.S.,etal.(2003).Thebusinesscaseforquality:Casestudiesandananalysis.HealthAffairs,22(2),1730.RetrievedfromtheWaldenLibrarydatabases. Thisarticleposesthequestion:"Doesimprovingqualityyieldareturnoninvestment?"Itpresentsfourcases,andincludesconsiderationofthecostsandbenefitstofourstakeholders:providers,purchasersandemployers,individualpatients,andsociety.
• Article:Zhan,C.,Friedman,B.,Mosso,A.,&Pronovost,P.(2006).MARKETWATCH:Medicarepaymentforselectedadverseevents:Buildingthebusinesscaseforinvestinginpatientsafety.HealthAffairs,25(5),13861393.RetrievedfromtheWaldenLibrarydatabases. ThisarticleexaminespotentialbenefitsofimprovingpatientsafetyforhospitalsthatservepatientsonMedicareandMedicaid.
• Article:Ward,W.J.Jr.,Spragens,L.,&Smithson,K.(2006,December).Buildingthebusinesscaseforclinicalquality.HealthcareFinancialManagement,60(12),928.RetrievedfromtheWaldenLibrarydatabases. Thisarticlepresentsausefulanalysisofvariousfactorsthatshouldbetakenintoaccountwhenbuildingabusinesscaseforaclinicalqualityimprovementinitiative.
• Article:Conway,P.,&Clancy,C.(2009).Transformationofhealthcareatthefrontline.JournaloftheAmericanMedicalAssociation,301(7),763765.RetrievedfromtheWaldenLibrarydatabases. Thisarticleaddressestheintersectionsofqualitymeasurement,payment,andhealthinformationtechnology.
• Article:Kaushal,R.,Jha,A.,Franz,C.,Glaser,J.,Shetty,K.,Jaggi,T.,etal.(2006).ReturnoninvestmentforaComputerizedPhysicianOrderEntrySystem.JournaloftheAmericanMedicalInformaticsAssociation,13(3),261266.RetrievedfromtheWaldenLibrarydatabases. ThisarticleexaminestheimplementationofahospitalCPOEatBrighamandWomen'sHospital.
• Article:Simpson,R.(2005).Errorreportingasapreventiveforce.NursingManagement,36(6),2156.RetrievedfromtheWaldenLibrarydatabases. Thisarticlelooksattheuseoftechnologyforerrorreportingandtheculturalchangeneededtoimprovepatientsafety.
• WebArticle:Burton,T.M.(2009,October8).NewsinDepth:U.S.hospitalsfindwaytomakecarecheaperMakeitbetterPublishingoutcomescanboostresults,onestatediscovers.WallStreetJournal(Europe),p.14.RetrievedfromtheWaldenLibrarydatabases. ThisarticlediscusseseffortsinPennsylvaniatoimprovequalityofcarewhilereducingcosts.
• WebArticle:Devine,E.B.,Hansen,R.N.,&Wilson-Norton,J.L.,etal.(2010,January).TheimpactofComputerizedProviderOrderEntryonmedicationerrorsinamultispecialtygrouppractice.JAMIA,17,7884.http://jamia.bmj.com/content/17/1/78.full.pdf?sid=e595667a-3af1-4475-af8d-7800ab08b1a6

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