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Health Information Technology and Healthcare Information System

Health Information Technology (HIT)
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Quality control is one of the three cyclical quality assurance activities that help keep a system under statistical control. Typical quality control activities include creating quality control charts, conducting proficiency testing, and documenting and archiving results.
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Control Systems: Applications

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Feedback control systems

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Transient and Steady-state Response

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TQM information systems: an elusive goal

L W Collins1

  • 1Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, OH.

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement
|November 1, 1994
PubMed
Summary

Bethesda Hospital utilizes an executive information system (EIS) to support total quality management (TQM) functions, enhancing data accessibility for process improvement teams and operational monitoring.

Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Information Systems
  • Quality Management Science
  • Business Process Management

Background:

  • Effective quality management requires robust information systems for data tracking and communication.
  • Bethesda Hospital developed an executive information system (EIS) to support various total quality management (TQM) functions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe the role of an information support system in facilitating TQM efforts.
  • To highlight how an EIS can aid process improvement and operational assessment.

Main Methods:

  • Development and ongoing refinement of an executive information system (EIS).
  • Integration of data for tracking quality efforts and supporting TQM functions.
  • Implementation of systems for process improvement teams and operational monitoring.

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Main Results:

  • The EIS provides essential data for process improvement teams, facilitating data gathering and analysis.
  • Interlinking measures enable monitoring and improvement of core work processes.
  • The system supports quick response to environmental changes through continuous operational assessment.

Conclusions:

  • Information services are integral to TQM at Bethesda Hospital.
  • The EIS supports tracking systems, process improvement, Hoshin planning, daily control, simulation modeling, and a continuous operational assessment and response (COAR) system.