What does it mean for a healthcare setting to report clinical quality measures?
What does it mean for a healthcare setting to report clinical quality measures? Why might a hospital Show more What does it mean for a healthcare setting to report clinical quality measures? Why might a hospital need to periodically run an entire Master Patient Index? Contrast a summary report and a detail report. Discuss the consequences (if any) if a provider does not achieve her core menu/ objective percentages. As much as we all need doctors and hospitals healthcare has become a lot more big business than in years past. Patients have a lot more information at their disposal and with the internet has turned laymen into self-diagnosing consumers. Healthcare is one thing that consumers (patients) buy and pay for whether or not they are completely happy with the results. In a restaurant you send your plate back. At the mall you return and exchange your purchases. But with healthcare you get treatment; you pay for treatmentwhether or not it works or whether or not youre happy with the end results. The powers-that-be the brainiacs over at CMS have decided that healthcare providers should do more tracking & reporting to determine patient satisfaction and treatment quality in healthcare. Enter the notion of Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs). This final week of the course we will talk about CQMs how theyre used and even how we can influence them in our roles as allied health professionals. Show less