Component 2; Unit 7: Quality Measurement and Improvement
Description:
This unit describes the concepts of quality measurement and performance improvement. The unit begins by setting the context of known quality problems in health care and then describes how quality is measured and efforts to improve it. The unit also discusses the role of information technology, incentives for quality improvement, and quality measurement under meaningful use.
Objectives:
- Define health care quality and the major types of quality measures: structural, process, and outcome measures.
- Describe the current state of health care quality in the United States.
- Discuss quality measures used in various health care settings in the United States, including those required for the HITECH (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act) meaningful-use program.
- Describe the role of information technology in measuring and improving health care quality.
- Describe the results of current health care quality efforts in the United States.
Component 2; Unit 7; Lecture 7a comp2_unit7a_lecture_slides
Lecture a (25:14): 1) Definitions and framework for assessing quality; 2) What is known about health care quality
Component 2; Unit 7; Lecture 7b comp2_unit7b_lecture_slides
Lecture b (21:50): 1) Current quality measures in use
Component 2; Unit 7; Lecture 7c comp2_unit7c_lecture_slides
Lecture c (37:21): 1) Role of IT and informatics; 2) Results of current approaches to quality assessment