The Quality Disconnect
By John Morrissey
Hospitals are under pressure to provide payers and others with more immediate access to quality measures. But the data that's being collected now is not aligned with how it should and could be collected.
"Today, performance data largely look backward — how well clinicians adhered to protocols during the prior week or months. Charles Christian, CIO at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind., envisions a time when actionable data make it to clinicians in a far more timely fashion. "In the world to come, it's how we're doing in real time," he says. "The goal is to have a positive outcome while the patient's here … not looking in the rearview mirror" at whether a necessary medical action was overlooked or a critical intervention should have been done."
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