Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Trevor L Strome, Trevor L. Strome
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2013
• EAN: 9781118519691
• ISBN: 978-1-118-51969-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Business & management, Management and management techniques, Health systems and services, Wirtschaft u. Management, Unternehmenstechnologie, Business Technology