Quality Care

Improving Quality

Install a System to Collect Data

Set up a project team, identify measures and create a patient registry.

Assemble a Project Team
Your team will help you define core measures, determine how to collect data and define what changes need to be made to start your project.

Select Core Measures
Start with just a few measures for the most common conditions in your practice.

Set Up a Patient Registry
This database allows you and your care team to manage patients who have chronic diseases proactively.

Use the System to Improve Care

Once the data-collection system is in place, analysis should only take one to two hours per month.

Assemble a Project Team
As with the data collection step, the step that includes analyzing the data and setting improvement goals relies on a high-functioning team.

Data Analysis: Data Collection to Improve Care
First, get the data into a format that facilitates group review and discussion. Then, figure out what the data are telling you.

Check for Change
Recheck the data to see if there's been improvement. While you're at it, submit the data for any available quality improvement cash bonuses.