Decision Support


  • Client identifies initiative
  • KQMI organizes client team to help define scope/design
  • KQMI facilitates client design meetings to define:
    • Objectives/outcomes to measure
    • Data Elements to capture/screen layouts
    • System/process for capture
    • Reports/measures


Plan & Analyze




  • KQMI designs data collection template
  • KQMI designs interface to database
  • KQMI designs report specs
  • Client QA/validate/signoff on design



Design




  • KQMI builds data collection screens
  • KQMI builds interface to database
  • KQMI develops client report templates




Build & Configure



  • KQMI installs software on client server
  • Client/KQMI test screens, interface, report templates
  • Client signs off on systems
  • KQMI sets security, trains users
  • KQMI sets applications to "live status"



Testing & Deploy




  • KQMI provides support for learning curve
  • KQMI provides updates to report templates
  • KQMI/client reviews outcomes/measures and adjusts process as required




Support & Optimize

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Data are critical to assessing, monitoring and improving health care services, whether for a unit in a hospital or across many facilities in a large health care system. Our expert staff defines appropriate measures, tailors databases to the needs of our clients, and provides analyses and reports that reveal the status of ongoing programs, opportunities for improvements and identifies best practices.

In today’s health care environment, data are required. Very few organizations have the background, the experience, and the financial commitment to quality management that is necessary to competently develop and deliver data reports. Our team helps with data required by CMS, the Joint Commission, managed care organizations, and departments of health.

With expertise and decades of experience in database development and analyses, the Institute staff offers leaders of organizations the tools they need for optimal decision making. We provide physicians with information about the clinical care of patient populations through aggregated data that transcends individual patient issues.