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CCI Assayer / PI
Performance Improvement Platform for Custom PI CME

Are you under pressure to design, develop, and implement a Quality Improvement or Performance Improvement program within your health care organization?

The problem is that the amount of data collection, aggregation and statistical analysis required to meet these lofty quality principals often requires a long-term commitment of time and resources that most health care organizations simply cannot afford. Perhaps you're looking at stacks of paper forms or lists of computer spreadsheet files and wondering how this could possibly support a robust, data intensive Quality or Performance Improvement initiative.

Collecting, aggregating, analyzing and reporting large amounts of clinical data to meet various requirements mandated by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations – not to mention changing mandates from state and federal agencies – just got easier! NetHealth is here to help!

• Increase clinical effectiveness
• Reduce costs and gain incentives
• Sustain meaningful practice change
• Automate data collection, analysis, and dissemination

Your organization has likely replaced pen and paper with computer spreadsheets, databases, and statistical programs like SPSS. Incorporating a web-based solution into your Quality Improvement and Performance Improvement projects will significantly reduce the time and resource burden of collecting, managing, analyzing, and reporting clinical data. 

NetHealth will help you to take the next step, to web-based programs that increase the efficiency of data entry, automating the tasks of data processing, statistical analysis, and dissemination.

These powerful, automated data management tools, simplify overall project implementation ensuring that your performance and quality initiatives stay on track.

Our custom CCI Assayer / PI platform provides guidance through chart abstraction of de-identified patient data and can automate the entire process of PI plan development, implementation, and re-assessment. Further, the system enables physicians to reflect on personal knowledge assessment along with practice-based data to report the impact of improvement changes. This supports the development of a culture of continuous assessment and improvement within organizations like yours.

NetHealth's PI CME activities are based on the American Medical Association learning model for long-term performance improvement, guiding health care providers through the following process:

• Initial Data Collection: 10-30 charts are entered related to the evidence-based guidelines or ‘quality measures’ being evaluated. The system provides numerical and visual reports, identifying the recommendations for improvement, based on the data entered.
• Improvement Phase: Specific measures for improvement are selected and a personalized Performance Improvement Plan, guided by industry validated guidelines to set goals, is developed. Performance measures are briefly discussed and links to information sources, guidelines, and improvement tools are provided.
• Remeasurement & Reflection: After applying the improvement plan for a specified period of time, an additional set of data from another set of patient charts is entered to assess performance changes in comparison to the first abstraction. The final set of questions facilitates reflection on the results and the overall impact of PI process on quality of care. The data are then submitted for credit (CME / MOC / CNE, etc.) and the process is complete.

Suitable for implementation individually and for practice and departmental groups and teams, NetHealth's CCI Assayer J PI module guides users through the process, enabling them to easily collect and enter data using chart reviews, self-assessment, and patient surveys. Our staff remains available throughout program implementation to assist with any needs. For each stage completed, 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ can be earned, for a total of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ awarded if all stages are completed.

The web-based CCI Assayer / PI platform helps health care organizations carry out customized quality and performance improvement activities, more efficiently and more successfully – with lasting impact. And automating manual data collection, analysis and dissemination will give you the freedom to investigate performance and quality improvement efforts more thoroughly, achieving project results in less time¹.

¹ "Web-Based Tools Aid Quality Improvement Projects" by Sanjaya Kumar, MD, MSc, MPH, Patient Safety & Quality Health care, July/September 2004."