Carolinas Medical Selects Quality Improvement Tool

 

Carolinas Medical Center NorthEast(CMC-NorthEast) of Concord, N.C., has selected Premier healthcare alliance’s QualityAdvisor solution to improve delivery of patient care. QualityAdvisor, part of Premier’s QualityConnect, combines analytical methods with a benchmark database of more than 600 facilities to identify clinical and financial improvement opportunities, understand drivers for variation in practice, and monitor quality of care.

Features of QualityAdvisor include:

• Patient outcomes: Leverage captured patient and process data to identify strategic quality of care improvement opportunities.
• Clinical performance: Supply performance improvement teams with comparative information that prompts action.
• Financial performance: Pinpoint areas of care where process modifications will yield greatest cost savings without sacrificing quality.
• Operational performance: Track patient flow and resource utilization for a deeper understanding of clinical and operational outcomes and expenditures.
• · Strategic planning: Benchmark against peer organizations and implement best-practices that have a real-world impact on healthcare institutions.
• Physician performance: Formalize physician reporting with Physician Profiles.
• Compliance: Achieve regulatory compliance with one solution for submitting quality measures.