Importance of Quality and Performance Improvement in Healthcare

Quality and Performance Improvement Analysis
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Quality and Performance Improvement Analysis
An ordered set refers to a group of bundled instructions from a healthcare provider regarding the treatment of a patient. The orderable can be based on the condition, disease, and procedure; for instance, there is an order set for treating pneumonia. However, the content of the order set is not absolute and can be modified based on the specific needs of a patient. Order sets have been shown to improve outcomes and efficiency within electronic medical records (EMR). Boston Medical Center, the Graduate Medical Education Program, has a project geared towards improving order sets. It focuses on the creation of an accurate standard process that will increase quality and utilization in healthcare.
Order sets are crucial in the standardization of healthcare practices which help clinicians to provide patient-centered care. For an organization, the standardization of practices helps in the reduction of operating costs due to effective processes and the reduction of human error. Patients also get a confidence boost due to improved hospital mortality and reduced margins of error in treatment CITATION Nan19 \l 1033 (Setia, et al., 2019). The project intends to generate a reproducible process and quality Epic Order Set to be used at Boston Medical Center. This will help in the improvement of usability and adherence to the state and federal clinical guidelines.
Improvement of order sets is important in helping already qualified clinicians make evidence-based decisions at every step of a patient’s medical journey. For frontline physicians, order sets help in obtaining relevant and latest clinical research knowledge. A streamlined workflow is crucial at the point of care because it reduces errors and inappropriate ordering of nurses and other subordinates CITATION CST14 \l 1033 (CSTP, 2014). Consequently, a clinical team will have easier decisions across the team, such as collaborative case management and continuity of care across different care settings. The administrators will benefit from the insightful analytics provided by a streamlined workflow. Thus, they can accurately analyze quality improvement, strategic planning, billing, and revenue cycle management in health institutions. An improvement in order sets revolutionizes an entire healthcare system by reducing clinical variations across hospital networks. Such a system becomes compatible with EHR systems and CPOE workflows, consequently driving down value-based care costs.
This project will use a visual model to help in creating a more defined and improved order set. The hospital first identifies existing order sets that are considered outdated or have lower success...