{"title":"Methodology may help hospitals evaluate ROI for IT investments.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hospitals are spending millions of dollars to install a variety of information technology (IT) systems to improve patient care, reduce medication errors and track supplies and equipment. But unlike many clinical services, calculating a return on investment (ROI) for IT systems is difficult. Researchers at Florida State University in Tallahassee may have developed a methodology for hospitals to evaluate ROI from a hospital wide perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 5","pages":"52-4, 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26100171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using performance feedback to change provider behavior.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although physicians are loathe to admit it, data suggest a majority of them are impacted by what researchers refer to as clinical inertia--a failure to initiate or intensify therapy when it is clearly indicated. Successful remedies must focus on squarely on changing provider behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 5","pages":"58-9, 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26100174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospital saves lives by reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bay Regional Medical Center, Bay City, MI, is one of 14 hospitals participating in a national patient safety initiative that has reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) deaths to zero for at least a year. It took six months before staff got used to the new procedures. The real buy-in occurred when they saw the evidence.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 5","pages":"55-7, 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26100173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Backus Hospital earns high ranking for QI, patient safety.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Focusing on quality improvement and patient safety, 213-bed William W. Backus Hospital, in Norwich, CT, changed a number of medical and administrative processes over the past three years to win a top 5% hospital ranking by HealthGrades, a Golden, CO-based health care ratings company.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 4","pages":"45-7, 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26013156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"St. Francis Health System overhauls heart attack care process.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For scoring in the top 20% of hospitals for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), Bon Secours' St. Francis Hospital, in Greenville, SC, received a $54,000 bonus check last November from a Medicare pay-for-performance demonstration project. By implementing several process improvements, including improving its door to balloon time--the time it takes for a heart attack patient to enter the emergency department and then having an angioplasty in the cardiac cath lab--St. Francis' composite quality scores improved to 98% from 90% for AMI, or heart attack.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 4","pages":"42-5, 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26013155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Central DuPage Hospital ranks in top 10% of hospitals for pioneering stroke treatment.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It wasn't long ago that patients suffering a stroke had little hope of recovering or even surviving after experiencing a bursting brain blood vessel or tiny clots in arteries that stop oxygen-rich blood flow, killing or damaging brain nerve cells. In 1996. one of the nation's top community hospitals started a comprehensive stroke program that today saves many lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 3","pages":"29-32, 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25977045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospitals respond to public disclosure of mortality, complications and prices.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When Florida became one of the first states in the nation to use a public website to disclose data on hospital mortalities, infections, complications and prices, some hospitals began to immediately plan or speed up performance improvement projects.</p>","PeriodicalId":85258,"journal":{"name":"Performance improvement advisor","volume":"10 3","pages":"32-5, 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25977046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}