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HIMSS and co-sponsor American Society for Quality (ASQ) are actively seeking real-world success stories to be peer-reviewed for consideration as Stories of Success! Case Studies, for the intent of educating your peers in the industry. The purpose of the Stories of Success! all call is to specifically highlight and demonstrate how health IT has been leveraged to fulfill national patient safety goals of The Joint Commission and national recommendations from the National Priorities Partnership. Submissions for this cycle open today and are due Friday, Oct. 22. Learn more
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HIMSS has set a goal to drive patient safety and quality of care so that by the year 2014, 75 percent of all healthcare information systems are deeply instilled with optimized safety and quality improvement tools. HIMSS promotes and advocates the integration of patient safety tools and practices for all healthcare organizations, clinicians, patients and community members. The benefits of these practices are improved healthcare quality, communication, education, and services. Good patient safety practices and strategies can also help make organizations and processes more accessible, efficient and cost-effective.
You can learn more about patient safety and quality outcomes on himss.org by reading past HIMSS position statements, viewing related committees, task forces and work groups, or learning about how leveraging health information technology is impacting the industry through clinical decision support and e-prescribing.
For more information regarding patient safety and quality outcomes, please contact David Collins.
Visit the HIMSS E-Prescribing Wiki and the HIMSS CDS Wiki, where you can read entries on all aspects of e-prescribing and clinical decision support. We are looking for contributors and editors. Visit now and find how to join.
Latest News:
HIMSS Launches Quality 101 Website
Quality healthcare relies on health information technology as a tool that can be leveraged to improve healthcare delivery and lead to operational, clinical and financial efficiencies
The Metrics of Quality and Their Limitations
Quality 101 is offered by HIMSS as an introduction to the growing field of quality measures, standards of care, and evidenced-based medicine. A maze of guidelines, protocols, disease-management tools, algorithms, pathways, standards and steps-to-excellence are being published by numerous groups. To add to the potential confusion, different agencies and organizations are defining and publishing quality measures sets on the same condition. Often, this results in different measurement sets for the demonstration of quality for the same condition. An illustration is that four agencies have published comprehensive diabetes quality-care, measurement sets: PCPI, NQF, HEDIS (NCQA) and PQRI. And, all of them are different.
Crossing the Quality Chasm: The IOM Health Care Quality Initiative
Quality 101 is offered by HIMSS as an introduction to the growing field of quality measures, standards of care, and evidenced-based medicine. A maze of guidelines, protocols, disease-management tools, algorithms, pathways, standards and steps-to-excellence are being published by numerous groups. To add to the potential confusion, different agencies and organizations are defining and publishing quality measures sets on the same condition. Often, this results in different measurement sets for the demonstration of quality for the same condition. An illustration is that four agencies have published comprehensive diabetes quality-care, measurement sets: PCPI, NQF, HEDIS (NCQA) and PQRI. And, all of them are different.
