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August 8, 2006 The Healthcare Management Council's online Quality DashboardTM alerts hospital staff to AHRQ quality problems before they are publicized by consumer healthcare Web sites or negatively impact Medicare reimbursement. Needham, MA August 8, 2006 -- Hospital quality indicators, such as those created by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), are vitally important for hospitals to track and act upon: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) plan calls for hospitals to be paid for services based on the quality of care provided, as demonstrated by the ARHQ indicators. In addition, hospital quality statistics are now available to the public, so that hospitals with low quality will be punished in today's highly competetive healthcare environment. HMC's Quality DashboardTM alerts hospital staff to quality problems before they become public or can negatively impact Medicare reimbursement.
The HMC Quality DashboardTM allows hospitals to track quality measures in their online performance improvement portal at HMCCentral.com. The input of quality data may be entirely decentralized, and allows for the integration of data from diverse quality data collection system. Each party responsible for inputting the quality data may also enter comments and explanations. Hospitals can create their own indicators, manage these indicators via their dashboard, and update them at user-supplied intervals.
Screen shot of a sample hospital's HMC Quality DashboardTM
Further Reading:
You may read about what hospitals need to know about quality indicators at the HMCWiki article Quality Indicators:
- Why quality indicators have taken on a new reimbursement significance
- What quality indicators have to do with competition with other hospitals
- What are the AHRQ Indicators
- What quality indicators mean to hospitals
- Sample analysis of indicator data you may want to replicate for your own hospital
- Episodic vs. deficiency indicators
- Quality improvement
About The Healthcare Management Council, Inc:
HMC is a hospital performance improvement company that helps its Partner facilities lower their costs and increase quality. HMC helps hospitals succeed in a highly competetive healthcare environment with its online cost and quality benchmarks and facilitated community of thousands of hospital staff that share ideas for lowering costs and increasing quality.
HMC Web site: www.HMC-Benchmarks.com
Download the HMC QuadrantOne BenchmarkTM brochure (PDF 1MB)
Contact: Shelley Burns at (262) 242-9471
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