Rhode Island Hospital Uses SciHealth to Improve Core Measure Scores

ATLANTA, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) utilizes SciHealth's Insight to drive health, quality and safety improvements as they strive to become a top performing hospital for all publicly reported measures. Insight optimizes RIH's ability to track key health indicators and focus on proactive measures that result in improved health outcomes. Core Measures scores for Smoking Cessation Counseling, for example, improved to 100% since being tracked in SciHealth's Insight. Insight enables RIH to better monitor and manage large amounts of otherwise disparate data related to this and other indicators by integrating corporate-level information along with unit level data.

Prior to using Insight, the RIH Quality Management Team spent the majority of their time creating custom reports from raw data to meet quality information needs required to support external and internal reporting requirements for JCAHO/CMS core measures, Leapfrog/National Quality forum, etc. This left little time to actively support actual focused improvement efforts. There was no expedient mechanism to gather the data from the disparate sources, and dynamically display the information to those accountable for improvements in the various quality measures.

"Dynamic drill downs empower users to see the slice of data they need, thereby allowing Quality Management to devote more time to actual improvement efforts" says Donna Collins, Director of Quality Management, Lifespan/RIH. Those responsible were then able to clearly identify opportunities for improvement, and articulate actionable items. Using Insight, all levels of RIH's staff are exposed to how their unit fits into the overall picture for the organization, further driving process improvements.

"Leading organizations like RIH turn to SciHealth to improve clinical, quality and safety results by automating their manual data collection, analysis and reporting, thereby enabling those important resources to spend more time acting and less time crunching. Without SciHealth, it seems that generating reports is their objective rather than improving performance" explains Bill Leander, CEO, SciHealth.

Lifespan's Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) in Providence, RI is a 719-bed teaching institution affiliated with Brown University.

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