QI Plan Part 2

A performance measurement is a quality measure that is a method for evaluating the level to which a provider proficiently and carefully convey services that are suitable for the patient in the best possible time period. Quality measure is a mechanism that allocate a magnitude to quality of care to a criterion by comparison. So measuring performance is the only way to distinguish if the quality of care is improving. According to the Institute of Medicine, performance measurement enables quality improvement through the measurement of performance based upon quality indicators. Therefore, performance measurement can lead to the quality of monitoring.

Types of Information Each Tool Collect

Ontario Healthcare organization is our case of study since it uses a quality improvement plan in proving services offered to their customers. Ontario is one of the biggest healthcare organizations in the country. This organization has implemented a number of tools in their quality improvement plan. One of the tools it has used is Hospital Admission Risk Prediction (HARP). HARP is used in identifying patients at risk for future hospitalization. This tool is used in predicting future events. It also helps in creating an intervention mechanism to the health care providers to a patient who could experience challenging health episode. This tool generates information regarding the patient risk within future framework of about one to fifteen months. Ontario also uses Episheet a qualitative tool that is used in analyzing epidemiologic data. This data is used to support epidemiologists, statisticians and analysts in taking their analytical work. This tool is not used in gathering information but it is used to analyze some information in the healthcare organization to ensure that things are handled in accordance with the priority.

Strengths and Weaknesses of Each Tool for Each Area

Both HARP and Episheet are very important to the company. HARP to start with has some strength among. It can be used to predict the future of a sick person thus making it easy to identify the health conditions of a patient. It is basically used by the organization in preparation for the future since it predicts the patient future health. It cannot be relied on a first day patient. It is also considered hard to use and cannot just me used by any organization without a clear understanding about the tool. Episheet tool is also important since its information will help the organization in making informed decision regarding their health services to the community. Considering this tool, organization management will have precise information regarding the organization. It is also used to predict any risk that the health care organization might face. This gives the organization a chance to prepare before the problem strikes. The weakness of this tool is that it can only be used by some specialized people in generating the information required. Secondly, them that are trained are the only people who can decode the information given by the tool.

The Similarities and Differences of the Data Collection Tools

These two tools are similar in some way. First, they can both predict about the future occurrence of an event. For example, HARP is used to predict the future health of an individual and what to expect. On the other hand Episheet can be used to define the future of the hospital operations. Hospital financial needs, risks that can be ahead of the health care organization and the community health behavior in future can also be predicted by this tool. On top of that these two tools help in improving the health care services in the organization by preparing the management with the future possible occurrence. However, these tools can be considered not to be similar in one way. HARP tool is used in predicting the risk of the patient health care future complications while Episheet is basically used in predicting both risks and improvements of the organization future events. Therefore, the two tools are basically used in quality improvement.

Information Each Tool Measure and Display

Quality improvement in a health care setup can be measured by use of a number of tools. These tools may include the following: ambulatory care and child health care quality toolbox. These two tools are basically used in measuring quality improvement of the health care organization ambulatory care is a tool that is used in improving health care testing process. It is a toolkit for a rapid cycle patient safety and quality improvement. This tool helps in getting the test information on diseases in the health care organization for each and every patient that gets to the healthcare organization (Gao, 2014). It is also used in evaluating the electronic record about the patient health information. The second tool is the child health care quality toolbox. This is a tool that has information on how to evaluate the quality of the children health care. This information is displayed in a way that people can use and evaluate the child health care. It also gives the user a chance to understand the emerging issues and measures in the children healthcare.

Each Tool's Strengths and Weaknesses

These two tools have both advantages and disadvantages. The ambulatory care tool has some advantages that make it suitable for the health care organizations to use. The first thing is that it provides a method to test information quality in each and every health care record. This provides the organization with a chance to understand their direction in the performance and quality of their services. It also involves the patients in evaluating its effectiveness by giving patients surveys and handouts. The tool also helps in testing the organization processes and its effectiveness. Child Health Care Quality Toolbox also has some strength. It can be developed by any organization easily with the guidelines it provides. It is easy to develop and use. It provides care processes and achieves outcomes that are scientifically supported. It helps in providing information of equal quality to the patients that may have different characteristics. It also considered safe since it has no physical harm to the patient. It also helps in reducing delays in the healthcare services delivery. It is indeed a supportive tool that helps in improving quality of children healthcare service delivery.

Tools are Helpful for Health Care Organizations

These two tools are similar in some ways. First, they are basically used in evaluating the effectiveness of the health care services in a healthcare setup. Both are used to define and give a clear picture of the quality of services provided by the healthcare organization thus directing the organization on direction to take to improve their services. These tools are very much different. Child Health Care Quality measurement is more concerned about the children health quality. It contains information and tools that can be used to evaluate the quality of health care for children. It is based in the healthcare organization and the information that is evaluated is from the health care organization (Hermann, 2005). On the other hand the ambulatory care is used to evaluate the health care organization readiness. It tests the health quality preparedness with introducing a task. Unlike the child healthcare Quality toolbox, ambulatory care tool obtains information from people around. Therefore, these two tools differ more than their similarities.

Conclusion

Continued success of an organization is dependent upon the foundation strength on how the organization is built upon systems, process, tools and types of methods used by the organization to achieve benchmark standards. Strength and principles of a standard or product is defined by the sustainability of the product, concept, or belief. Frameworks consist of multiple dimensions of performance, organization factors and relationships. In addition, a framework is built upon current frameworks or different approaches developed to achieve successful quality improvement. Quality outcomes focus on the principles of quality management. 

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