Trevor L. Strome

Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Improve patient outcomes, lower costs, reduce fraud--all with healthcare analytics Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement walks your healthcare organization from relying on generic reports and dashboards to developing powerful analytic applications that drive effective decision-making throughout your organization. Renowned healthcare analytics leader Trevor Strome reveals in this groundbreaking volume the true potential of analytics to harness the vast amounts of data being generated in order to improve the decision-making ability of healthcare managers and improvement teams. * Examines how technology has impacted healthcare delivery * Discusses the challenge facing healthcare organizations: to leverage advances in both clinical and information technology to improve quality and performance while containing costs * Explores the tools and techniques to analyze and extract value from healthcare data * Demonstrates how the clinical, business, and technology components of healthcare organizations (HCOs) must work together to leverage analytics Other industries are already taking advantage of big data. Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement helps the healthcare industry make the most of the precious data already at its fingertips for long-overdue quality and performance improvement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118760178
• Artikelnr.: 39700465

Autorenporträt

TREVOR L. STROME, MSc, PMP, is the Analytics and Process Improvement Lead for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Emergency Program. He is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, where he participates in clinical and operations research projects and teaches statistics, informatics, and quality improvement. Trevor has coauthored three book chapters and numerous articles on healthcare topics. He is an in-demand conference speaker and the founder and editor of a popular blog on the topic of healthcare analytics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix Acknolwedgments xiii CHAPTER 1 Toward Healthcare Improvement
Using Analytics 1 Healthcare Transformation--Challenges and Opportunities 1
The Current State of Healthcare Costs and Quality 3 CHAPTER 2 Fundamentals
of Healthcare Analytics 15 How Analytics Can Improve Decision Making 15
Analytics, Quality, and Performance 17 Applications of Healthcare Analytics
19 Components of Healthcare Analytics 21 CHAPTER 3 Developing an Analytics
Strategy to Drive Change 29 Purpose of an Analytics Strategy 29 Analytics
Strategy Framework, with a Focus on Quality/Performance Improvement 32
Developing an Analytics Strategy 47 CHAPTER 4 Defining Healthcare Quality
and Value 51 What Is Quality? 51 Overview of Healthcare QI 59 Common QI
Frameworks in Healthcare 61 Working with QI Methodologies 73 CHAPTER 5 Data
Quality and Governance 75 The Need for Effective Data Management 76 Data
Quality 78 Data Governance and Management 84 Enterprise-wide Visiblilty and
Opportunity 88 CHAPTER 6 Working with Data 91 Data: The Raw Material of
Analytics 92 Preparing Data for Analytics 92 Getting Started with Analyzing
Data 100 Summary 112 CHAPTER 7 Developing and Using Effective Indicators
115 Measures, Metrics, and Indicators 115 Using Indicators to Guide
Healthcare Improvement Activities 123 CHAPTER 8 Leveraging Analytics in
Quality Improvement Activities 129 Moving from Analytics Insight to
Healthcare Improvement 129 CHAPTER 9 Basic Statistical Methods and Control
Chart Principles 145 Statistical Methods for Detecting Changes in Quality
or Performance 145 Graphical Methods for Detecting Changes in Quality or
Performance 153 Putting It Together 160 CHAPTER 10 Usability and
Presentation of Information 165 Presentation and Visualization of
Information 165 Dashboards for Quality and Performance Improvement 173
Providing Accessibility to and Ensuring Usability of Analytics Systems 180
CHAPTER 11 Advanced Analytics in Healthcare 183 Overview of Advanced
Analytics 183 Applications of Advanced Analytics 186 Developing and Testing
Advanced Analytics 190 Overview of Predictive Algorithms 197 CHAPTER 12
Becoming an Analytical Healthcare Organization 205 Requirements to Become
an Analytical Organization 207 Building Effective Analytical Teams 213
Summary 215 About the Author 217 About the Companion Web Site 219 Index 221