Health Data Quest – How to Find and Use Data for Performance Improvement

Improve clinical performance and demonstrate value to health care purchasers and insurers by becoming a "data detective" within your organization. Health Data Quest is the practical guide to the most current and promising emerging measurement tools, and provides guidance for effectively and efficiently finding, interpreting, presenting, and using data.

This much-needed book is filled with the essential information, instructive models, and useful tools managers and executives need to create a program that can clearly demonstrate how a health care organization offers quality care in a cost-effective manner, including how to build a data warehouse.

Filled with illustrative examples and case studies, this book provides a practical, nuts-and-bolts approach for:

• Conducting a data inventory and selecting indicators of performance
  
• Learning the fundamentals of the data warehouse
  
• Reviewing the vital legal issues of health care data management
  
• Gaining insight into the implementation of a key performance improvement strategy
  
• Meeting the challenge of integrating enterprise-wide health care information
  
• Implementing a continuous quality improvement effort
  
• Integrating clinical, financial and customer service data that will provide a concise picture of an organization's performance

Health Data Quest is an indispensable guide for health care administrators and executives who rely on information systems and for any health care professional who must prepare or defend managed care contracts. The book provides a valuable resource for documenting the clinical performance of complex health care institutions.