Trevor L. Strome

Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement

• Gebundenes Buch

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: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9781118519691
• ISBN-10: 1118519698
• Artikelnr.: 37717960

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