Quality Improvement

Four Important Ways That Analytics Transforms Healthcare Decision-Making

by Trevor Strome May 4, 2015

The Challenge – Increasing Need for Actionable Insight. Healthcare transformation efforts require decision makers to use information to understand all aspects of an organization’s performance. In addition to knowing what has happened, decision makers now require insight into what is likely going to happen, what the improvement priorities of the organization should be, and what […]

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Why Nurses Must Understand Analytics and Quality Improvement

by Trevor Strome April 13, 2015

In my role as a healthcare analytics and quality improvement (QI) professional (and, now an Assistant Professor with the local College of Nursing), I find myself regularly in discussions with nursing professionals regarding how analytics and QI impact their roles. A common thread in these discussions revolves around why, how, and where nurses should learn […]

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Healthcare Analytics Book Overview and Chapter Summary

by Trevor Strome September 29, 2013

As many readers of my blog may know, my new book Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement is due to be released on October 14th by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. I wrote this book because I observed that a gap often exists between many healthcare information technology (IT) professionals, healthcare analytics experts, and those […]

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Healthcare Organizations Must Evolve and Adapt to Survive

by Trevor Strome November 6, 2012

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are always working to improve the quality of their care and the efficiency of their business operations. More often than not, the approach to improving quality, performance, and efficiency is through a quality improvement (QI) project. The term “project” in this respect, however, is misleading at best, and potentially counter-productive at worst. […]

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Healthcare Analytics – A Strategic Resource for Healthcare Quality Improvement

by Trevor Strome November 1, 2011

Analytics is changing how health care organizations (HCOs) improve clinical quality, operational efficiency and patient safety. Unfortunately, many HCOs may not be fully benefiting from the potential goldmine of useful information made possible by computerized records and analytics resources (including specialists and software) within their organizations. In my recent article posted on the Health IT Exchange, I […]

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Advances in Healthcare IT are Improving Patient Safety

by Trevor Strome August 31, 2011

IT implementations must focus on the needs of the patient Most quality improvement approaches used in healthcare (including Lean, Six Sigma, and others) consider, if not focus on, the needs of the patient when identifying opportunities for improvement and when defining metrics for evaluating outcomes and sustainability. Importantly, as health information technology (HIT) implementation projects […]

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How To Prevent Analytics From Contributing to Information Overload

by Trevor Strome July 25, 2011

Information overload in clinical settings The term information overload refers to the “difficulty a person can have understanding an issue and making decisions that can be caused by the presence of too much information” (see citation from Wikipedia). An article by Sean M. Thomas, MD, and David J. Rosenman, MD in The Hospitalist suggest that […]

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Healthcare Data Needs the Narrative To Be Useful

by Trevor Strome June 24, 2011

I find it very enlightening to attend healthcare conferences that are clinician-focused (as opposed to technology-focused), because it is at the clinician-based conferences that we found out how well technology and information management really works in a healthcare setting. At the very least, the clinical point of view provides refreshing candor and insight into areas […]

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Healthcare Informatics – Living Up To Expectations?

by Trevor Strome June 6, 2011

Live from St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada I am attending the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) 2011 Annual Meeting in St John’s, Newfoundland. It is an opportunity for Emergency Medicine physicians from around the country to meet and discuss the issues and challenges that face Emergency Departments today. (Although I am not a physician, I […]

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Analytics On The Front Line – Improving Healthcare Quality Through Teamwork

by Trevor Strome May 10, 2011

Analytics professionals on the front-lines of healthcare I firmly believe that  analytics professional working in a healthcare environment should spend as much time working with and learning from front-line healthcare professionals as they spend in front of a computer developing analytical tools and studying data. The reasoning behind this is two-fold. First, time spent working […]

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