Healthcare Policy And Decision Makers With Statistics: Case Study
Guiding the Decisions of Healthcare Policy and Decision Makers with Statistics
Tina Norris
MHA624: Continuous Quality Improvements & Risk Management (MNI1125A)
Professor Kim McDonald
July 25, 2011
Guiding the Decisions of Healthcare Policy and Decision Makers with Statistics Continuously improving the quality of healthcare services depends on the creation of safety cultures by utilizing risk management techniques and tools, thus engendering an environment which is relatively safe for patients and healthcare staff. Tools, such as clinical performance measures and information technology are utilized to collect data in order to conduct effective studies. Data are analyzed with the utilization of statistics. …show more content…
For example, data which can inform consumer decision-making might be part of the Value-Based Purchasing program, and thus, publicly reported on the CMS Hospital Compare Website (Bronnert et al., 2010). Professional, private, and government organizations have independently established repositories of outcomes-based data which address issues like hospital-acquired infections, mortality, and outcomes from organ transplantations. Organizations include the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System; the University Healthsystem Consortium, CareScience; and the United Network for Organ Sharing (Nash & Goldfarb, 2006). The National Center for Health Statistics, The Department of Labor Statistics, and the Federal Food and Drug Administration are sources as …show more content…
A searchable compendium of healthcare report cards, designed especially for consumers, and which includes comparative data on quality designed especially for healthcare organizations and providers by type of provider, is offered. This organization also provides access to different types of data primarily used for quality and utilization purposes. For instance, it sponsors the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). This project provides access to a family of databases which contain public and private hospital care data, but accessing this data set requires an agreement in which limitations and provisions of data usage are summarized, and users (organizations) are required to cite AHRQ when using the data in reports. Finally, the AHRQ supports the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey in its provision of data on the cost and use of healthcare services and health insurance across the United States. This data’s main components are household data, which focuses on patients and their providers, and insurance data. Such data can be used for private planning, and to help policy makers have a better understanding of the nation’s healthcare needs and how best to meet them (Bronnert et al., 2010). The CDC records disease statistics, management, treatment, and control – information which can be aggregated even more by the parent or clinician populations. It regularly works with state public health agencies
Tina Norris
MHA624: Continuous Quality Improvements & Risk Management (MNI1125A)
Professor Kim McDonald
July 25, 2011
Guiding the Decisions of Healthcare Policy and Decision Makers with Statistics Continuously improving the quality of healthcare services depends on the creation of safety cultures by utilizing risk management techniques and tools, thus engendering an environment which is relatively safe for patients and healthcare staff. Tools, such as clinical performance measures and information technology are utilized to collect data in order to conduct effective studies. Data are analyzed with the utilization of statistics. …show more content…
For example, data which can inform consumer decision-making might be part of the Value-Based Purchasing program, and thus, publicly reported on the CMS Hospital Compare Website (Bronnert et al., 2010). Professional, private, and government organizations have independently established repositories of outcomes-based data which address issues like hospital-acquired infections, mortality, and outcomes from organ transplantations. Organizations include the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System; the University Healthsystem Consortium, CareScience; and the United Network for Organ Sharing (Nash & Goldfarb, 2006). The National Center for Health Statistics, The Department of Labor Statistics, and the Federal Food and Drug Administration are sources as …show more content…
A searchable compendium of healthcare report cards, designed especially for consumers, and which includes comparative data on quality designed especially for healthcare organizations and providers by type of provider, is offered. This organization also provides access to different types of data primarily used for quality and utilization purposes. For instance, it sponsors the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). This project provides access to a family of databases which contain public and private hospital care data, but accessing this data set requires an agreement in which limitations and provisions of data usage are summarized, and users (organizations) are required to cite AHRQ when using the data in reports. Finally, the AHRQ supports the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey in its provision of data on the cost and use of healthcare services and health insurance across the United States. This data’s main components are household data, which focuses on patients and their providers, and insurance data. Such data can be used for private planning, and to help policy makers have a better understanding of the nation’s healthcare needs and how best to meet them (Bronnert et al., 2010). The CDC records disease statistics, management, treatment, and control – information which can be aggregated even more by the parent or clinician populations. It regularly works with state public health agencies