Healthcare outcomes Management and quality improvement

Introduction:

The scope of outcomes management is expanding to cover several aspects that affect the standard of patient care. It focuses on managing quality through the use of outcome measures. Economics is the primary force behind this movement toward outcome control, with providers' and researchers' curiosity playing a secondary role. This essay introduces the idea of outcomes management and discusses its goals, implementation strategies, and connection to quality improvement.

The methods of healthcare assessment, which aim to examine healthcare interventions offered to healthcare consumers in terms of four primary dimensions: efficacy, efficiency, humanity, and equity, are highlighted in healthcare outcomes management and quality improvement courses.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this Healthcare outcomes management and quality improvement training course, you will be able to:

• Apply an integrated approach to handle patients within the healthcare delivery system that is based on principles of science and scientific inquiry.
• Discuss various measuring methodology, their strengths and weaknesses as they apply to healthcare outcomes management and planning.
• Demonstrate the changes in patient’s rights and the swing to consumerist model of healthcare delivery.
• Gain a better understanding of which healthcare interventions will enhance the patient’s overall health, functionality and quality of life.
• Identify the fundamental principles of epidemiology, healthcare economics, medical ethics, population medicine, medical informatics and environmental health.

Who Should Attend?

Healthcare outcomes management and quality improvement course is ideal for:

For anyone who wants to initiate a healthcare outcome and quality improvement project, to lead a small team of colleagues in such projects, or to become an outcome management and quality improvement specialist. The programme provides a foundation in outcome and quality improvement concepts, methods and tools that can be used by both outcome, quality improvement managers and clinical leaders who want to improve patient care.

Course Outlines:

Introduction to Healthcare Outcomes

• Management and Planning.
• History of Quality Management-A Starting Point.
• Basic Principles of Quality Management.

Quality Improvement in Health Care- Donabedian’s

• Principles of Quality Improvement.
• Introduction to Donabedian’s Principles of Quality Improvement.
• The Meaning of Quality Assurance.
• Targets of Quality Assurance.
• Components of Quality Assurance.
• The Quality Monitoring Cycle.
• Foundations of Quality Assurance.
• Components of Quality in Health Care.
• Monitoring and Improving Clinical Performance.
• Structure, Process, and Outcome.
• Understanding Healthcare Outcomes Management and Planning Using Donabedian’s Model.
• Donabedian’s Guidelines for Using Healthcare Outcome Management and Planning as an Indicator of Quality Healthcare Delivery.
• Donabedian’s Classifications of Outcomes.

Healthcare Delivery in the 21st Century- A Report from the Institute of Medicine

• Introduction to the Report.
• The Need for Change.
• Establishing Aims for the 21st Century Healthcare Delivery System.
• Formulating New Rules to Redesign and Improve Care.
• Improving Outcomes of Common Conditions.
• Organizational Supports for Change.
• Establishing a New Environment for Healthcare Delivery.
• Applying Evidence to Healthcare Delivery.
• Using Information Technology.
• Aligning Payment Policies with Quality Improvement.
• Preparing the Workforce.

Systems Approach to Healthcare Outcomes Management and Planning

• Introduction to Systems in Health Care.
• The Scientific Paradigm.
• The Healthcare “System”

The Biomedical Point of View

• Introduction to Biomedicine.
• Cartesianism.
• Empiricism.
• Western Biomedical Doctrine.

The Biopsychosocial Point of View

• The Biopsychosocial Approach to Clinical Medicine.
• Clinical Practice and the Biopsychosocial Approach.
• Eliciting the Patient’s Story and Life Circumstances.
• Integrating Biological, Psychological, Social, and Environmental Domains.
• Centrality of Relationships in Providing Healthcare Services.
• Understanding the Clinician.
• Focus the Approach for Clinical Practice.
• Providing Multidimensional Treatment.
• The Future of Clinical Biopsychosocial Practice.

Applied Healthcare Outcomes Management- A Primer on Epidemiology

• Introduction to Epidemiology.
• Areas of Concentration.
• Natural History of Disease.
• Epidemiologic Methodology.
• Basic Epidemiologic Measurement.
• Epidemiological Observations.
• Clinical Epidemiology.

Healthcare Evaluation Design

• Introduction to Healthcare Evaluation Design.
• Purpose of Evaluating Healthcare Delivery.
• Four Dimensions of Healthcare Evaluation.
• Healthcare Evaluation Design and Development.
• Positivism vs Relativism.
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology.
• Experimental Healthcar