Comments for AccreditationHelper

Comment on Making Accreditation Pay For You by jackdanderson

jackdanderson — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:30:27 +0000

The challenge for us in the DME market is taking small, understaffed, unwilling, cash poor companies and getting them started down the path to quality.
We still get complaints about charging them $2300 to lead them to a successful survey.
This what makes the web approach so important. By delivering the content and the consultant over the Internet we reduce their costs and make our consultants more productive. It also lets us tap into a pool of workers who want part time work from home.

Comment on Accreditation of DME in a Physician Office by steve

steve — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:50:08 +0000

You may not have heard the accreditation for physicians has been placed on hold per HR6331 last week Further comments from CMS will be coming, but for now not a service a physician needs to worry about.

Comment on Making Accreditation Pay For You by Scott Hodson

Scott Hodson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:01:55 +0000

Accreditation is very important. And I agree with you that it is not an effective goal in and of itself. Many American health systems are significantly underinvested in quality management Infrastructure, Process, and Organization. To often hospitals “cram” to get a passing grade on the triennial Survey, rather than strive to to develop a “world class” quality management foundation that includes:

Strategy: including a clear linkage of quality and patient safety to the organizational strategy and a Board-driven imperative to achieve quality goals.

Infrastructure: incorporating effective quality management technology, EMR and physician order entry, evidence based care development tools and methodologies, and quality performance metrics and monitoring technology that enables “real time” information.

Process: including concurrent intervention, the ability to identify key quality performance “gaps,” and performance improvement tools and methodologies to effectively eliminate quality issues.

Organization: providing sufficient number and quality of human resources to deliver quality planning and management leadership, adequate informatics management, effective evidence based care and physician order set development, performance improvement activity, and accredition planning to stay “survey ready every day.”

Culture: where a passion for quality and patient safety is embedded throughout the delivery system and leaders are incented to achieve aggressive quality improvement goals.

My firm has assisted a number of progressive health systems to achieve such a foundation, and to develop truly World Class Quality.