MEDITECH
Quality
Management and Risk Management
product brief
MEDITECH's Quality Management and Risk Management application provides health care organizations the tools they need to document and monitor quality and environmental issues occurring within their facilities, and to conduct confidential research projects.
The product includes two distinct components: a Quality Management component which enables health care organizations to improve the quality of services and ensure the overall safety of their patients, visitors, and staff; and a Risk Management component which helps reduce the risk of legal liability and financial loss to organizations.
Quality Management and Risk Management pulls data from throughout the MEDITECH HCIS and stores it in a secure database for robust reporting and benchmarking by authorized users. Organizations can thereby track and report on a variety of issues such as patient and visitor incidents, adverse drug events, employee health and safety, blood utilization, and infections with complete confidentiality. The Quality Management and Risk Management product enables hospitals to effectively analyze their efforts and devise strategies for improving outcomes and regulatory compliance.
The application is delivered with standard content and a comprehensive set of standard reports. As a result, organizations can implement the system quickly and users can access the information they need at the touch of a keyboard.
Highlights:
The Quality
Management and Risk Management application enables organizations
to:
•
Track and manage incidents
• Identify processes in need of
improvement
• Maintain an inventory of quality
indicators in review for JCAHO
• Reduce the organization's risk of
financial loss and legal liability
• Consolidate data from throughout the
HCIS
• Support comprehensive reporting and
benchmarking
• Ensure data confidentiality.
Standard
Features
Quality
Management
The Quality Management
component helps health care organizations track quality issues
and outcomes for both patients and non-patients. Organizations
can compile and report on numbers and data for statistical
analysis, benchmarking, and trending.
Ability
to Analyze the Effectiveness of Processes
Quality managers can determine
the scope and success of ongoing projects in the facility or
organization, in individual departments, and in specific
disciplines. For example, hospitals using a CPOE system can
compare the number of adverse drug events before and after the
introduction of CPOE. Users can prioritize their projects by
using impact scoring features. Organizations can:
• Define projects and objectives
• Determine timeframes
• Set targets and measure criteria
• Review reporting and referral information
• Record actions and associated outcomes
• Plan strategies
• Track dimensions of performance, as defined by JCAHO.
Ability
to Maintain an Inventory of Indicators in Review
Quality Management enables
health care organizations to maintain a list of ongoing
indicators for JCAHO. Hospitals can modify or add to a list of
standard indicators provided with the software. They can also
associate a project with an indicator and pull data into one list
for easy review.
Risk
Management
The Risk Management component
enables health care organizations to track and manage incidents
and environmental factors which pose a risk of illness or injury
to patients, visitors, and staff. The software includes
comprehensive tools to collect enterprise-wide data.
Ability
to Create Employee Notifications
An employee notification
feature tracks employee injuries and illnesses, such as lost work
days and the details of an injury. Users can set screen
preferences based on notification type and define which
information will be documented on an incident. Organizations can:
• Report on actual versus projected lost workdays
• Distinguish an employee's status (i.e., partial
responsibility versus full job responsibility)
• Generate Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
logs
• Pull employee files from MEDITECH's Payroll/Personnel
application.
Complete
System Integration
The Quality Management and
Risk Management application ensures access to a wide range of
comprehensive and accurate data from a single screen. The
software:
• Pulls patient information from MEDITECH's Abstracting
application and enables users to view data in an electronic
medical record
• Enables users to access drug dictionaries in MEDITECH's
Pharmacy application when compiling ADRs and MUE (Medication
Usage Evaluation) reviews.
The system's integration streamlines workflow and reduces manual tasks. Information from the HCIS flows into the compiled report writer feature to populate worklists, thereby helping to improve workload management.
Comprehensive
Reporting and Benchmarking
Organizations can perform
comprehensive reporting and benchmarking through:
• Standard
reports, such as blood review summaries, physician profiles,
mortality rates, and lost workdays
• Custom views
• Compiled reports, such as Laboratory, Pharmacy, and
Nursing
• Trending of statistical data.
These features enable
health care organizations to effectively analyze quality and
patient safety initiatives. Organizations can also use the
software to help meet JCAHO and OSHA reporting requirements.
A
Secure Database to Ensure Confidentiality
The Quality Management and
Risk Management product has its own secure database, to ensure
the highest level of confidentiality. While information from the
HCIS flows into Quality Management and Risk Management, it does
not flow back out to other applications. Organizations can define
and control access to the data in numerous ways, such as
assigning only certain pages or a particular task to a given
employee.
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com