What We Do For Hospitals
Today, the average hospital engages one clinical full time employee per 100 beds to extract JCAHO core measure data manually from paper medical records. The very same data necessary to fulfill these requirements are collected within the hospital clinical information system.
IHM data analysis tools:
- Extract data electronically directly from the MEDITECH system for quality of care analysis and reporting
- Require no software installation
- Require no manual data input
- Provide a Web-based interface for reporting
IHM data analysis tools are actionable:
- Highlighted problem areas
- Drill-down reports to identify trends and drivers
- Advanced analytics to validate insights and conclusions
- Concurrent benchmarks and data reported on a monthly basis
Our health metrics tools are efficient, replacing the hand collection of data currently performed by one full-time employee per 100 beds. And they are timely, supplying the comparative data crucial to supporting change in real time.
The Institute for Health Metrics has introduced three data products for its member hospitals:
- Automated Indicator Extraction System™ ("AIES™")
- Physician Quality Management System™ ("PQMS™")
- Infection Alert™ ("IA™")
Why Hospitals Participate
IHM understands the issues facing all hospitals which boil down to: do more with less. Therefore, hospital participation requires no effort from the hospital IT staff, reduces QI staff chart review, and enhances the productivity of performance improvement staff.
The Institute for Health Metrics is, above all else, a collaborative endeavor. Our value depends upon our relationships with hospitals around the country. In addition to fostering groundbreaking research, hospital partners will have access to clinical protocols, performance reporting, specific benchmarks that can be matched against both local and national service trends and standardized quality reports tailored to meet JCAHO requirements.
By working with Institute for Health Metrics, hospitals will be able to:
- Compare their clinical resource consumption and care processes against other hospitals.
- Study a detailed roadmap of superior performers' pattern of care and reap the benefit of lessons learned.
- Compare internal clinical resource consumption and care processes over time in order to assess the effectiveness of operational improvements.
Currently a variety of organizations are working toward improving health care quality, including the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to name just a few. These organizations have contributed significantly to the development and reporting of quality based metrics. A key limiting factor, however, has been the lack of high-quality data upon which to base these analyses. The Institute for Health Metrics enables hospitals to get efficient access to high quality electronic data that is timely and actionable.
Hospitals operate under significant resource constraints. Participation with the Institute for Health Metrics requires no internal hospital resources on an ongoing basis. Resulting reports that are disseminated to member hospitals can contribute significantly to the overall efficiency, quality and safety of hospital operations.