Organization Flashcards
Resource Distribution
Views Org as source of largesse and the Governing Board as a body to distribute resources… Political
Board
to create and maintain a foundation for relationships among the stakeholders that it’s and implements their wishes as effectively as possible.
Legally responsible for ensuring the quality of medical care.
5 obligations-
- Approve medical staff by laws
- Appoint medical executives at all levels
- Approve plan for medical staff recruitment and development, a part of the long range plans
- Approve appointments and reappointments of individual physicians, after a review according to the by laws
- Approve contracts with physicians and physician org’s
Resource Contribution
Board Members are contributors of resources to Org. Emphasizes funds or services board members may donate or,the influence they can bring to bear on critical external relations.
Long-Range Financial Plan
An ongoing projection of financial position showing earnings, debt, and capitalization for at least the next seven years. The plan integrates the strategic business plans and tests their reality.
Generates a cash need for each year.
Identifies immediate financial needs.
Referents for goal setting.
- TRENDS: Last years value, or a time series of several years, provides an initial baseline and allows judgement on the direction of the measure.
- COMPETITOR AND INDUSTRY COMPARISONS: what other organizations are achieving provides crude guidelines, even if the available information is not strictly from competitors.
- BENCHMARKS:
- VALUES
4 monitoring functions of Board-
1- routine surveillance of performance data
2- acceptance of reports from Auditors, Accreditors, and other external agencies… The management letter is an audit of the internal auditor and the board’s ultimate protection against misrepresentation, fraud, or misappropriation of funds.
3- approval of major contracts and transactions
Nat’l Committee for Quality Assurance
Accredits health insurance plans AND physician org’s
Board- 6 Functions
- Maintain management capability
- Establish the MVV
- Approve corporate strategy and annual implementation
- Ensure quality and appropriate medical care
- Monitor organizational performance
- Continuously improve board performance
5 functions of an HCO
- Ensuring accurate dx
- Ensuring excellent care- safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable
- Individualizing patient care planning and treatment
- Improving community health
- Improving clinical performance
Clinical protocols- Advantages
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- Make cooperation possible and are nec to allow any level of sophisticated teamwork
- Provide basis for assessing and monitoring clinical performance
- Convenient statement in contracts w patients and insurers.
Functional protocol
Procedures and sets of activities to carry out elements of care.
Usually written, but carried out from memory.
Most failures (falls, infections, wrong site surgeries) trace to incomplete, inaccurate, or overlooked fxnl protocols.
Stable over time.
Functional protocols contain
Authorization- who may perform the procedure
Indication- clinical conditions that support
Contraindications- conditions where protocol must be modified, replaced or avoided
Req’d supplies, equip, and conditions
Actions- clear, step-by-step
Recording- instructions for recording procedure and patient responses/reaction
Follow-up-
Patient Management Protocols
Aka- pathways, guidelines
Define N steps/processes in care of a clinically related group of patients.
Organized around episodes of pt care, classified by sx, disease or condition (e.g. Chest pain)
Specify the fxnl components of care, outcomes and quality goals.
AHRQ
Agency for a healthcare Research and Quality
- nat’l Quality Measures Clearinghouse
Managerial issues revolving around clinical performance:
- Sustaining a Culture of Teamwork and Respect
- Credentialing and Ensuring Continued Competence
- Minimizing and Responding to Unexpected Clinical Events
- Resolving Interprofessional Rivalries
Physician Supply Plan
Allows HCO to I’d community needs and move to meet them in a timely manner. It also allows the HCO to protect the income of effective practitioners.
The medical staff plan protects physicians against new competitors, because the HCO will,decline privileges to applicants exceeding the planned numbers. If physicians were to do this themselves, it would be collusion in restraint of trade, a violation of antitrust law. Because of this, although the medical staff comment should be solicited on the plan, approval must rest with the governing board.
Physician Organization- 6 functions
- Achieve excellent care
- Credential and delineate privileges
- Plan and implement physician recruitment
- Provide clinical education for physicians and other professionals
- Communicate and resolve unmet needs
- Negotiate and maintain compensation arrangements
Elements of Privelege
- Bylaws
- Privileges
- Independent physician-patient relationship
- Continuous quality improvement and peer review
Healthcare Quality Improvement Act, 1986
The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 is, ostensibly, meant to protect the public from incompetent physicians by allowing those physicians on peer review committees to communicate in an open and honest environment and thus weed out incompetent physicians, without the specter of a retaliatory lawsuit by the reviewed physician.
However, the consequences of the Act have instead helped promote an environment that protects those physicians on a peer review committee when they distort the review process for their own gain, by maliciously disciplining those physicians that may be in political or economic competition.
Future Need for Physicians- Modeling
Model 1- applied to each specialty of the physician org. the services provided per physician year can be estimated from history. Physicians involved are surveyed about their work intentions, such as retirements, leaves, and plans to change their HCO affiliation. The survey can improve the forecast of services provided as well as provide a forecast of physicians available.
Works well w major clinical events (Ns) it is impractical for Primary Care.
Model 2- still requires survey of physician intentions. It’s weakness is the standard, which may or may not be reliable for the future in a specific community.
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
ContentbformeducationnofmResidents/Fellows/House Officers
ACGME- 6 General Competencies of Physicians
- Patient Care
- Medical Knowledge
- Practice-based learning and improvement
- Interpersonal and communication skills
- Professionalism
- Systems-based Practice
NIC-as part of nursing PoC
Nursing Interventions Classification- plan for nursing interventions
NOC- as part of Nursing PoC
Nursing Outcomes Classification, clinical outcomes
NANDA
North American Nursing Dx Association
Long-Term Contract w Separately Owned Corp
An independent corp owns facilities, employs associates, and sells services to the HCO. THE CONTRACT SHOULD SPECIFY AS CLEARLY AS POSSIBLE the obligations and intentions to both parties.
It is difficult to incorporate standards for effectiveness or to prevent the contractor from competing as an independent org.
Joint venture corp
The HCO gains partial strategic control and can include explicit reserved powers and super majority rules that gain control of size, location, clinical privileges, and management appointments. The corp,can purchase services from the HCO. The principle advantages relate to capital.
HITSP
Health Information Technology Panel
A public-private to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications
National e-Health Collaboration
A public-private partnership driving the grassroots development of a secure interoperable, nationwide HIS
Specification
A statistical analysis that identifies values for a measure by defined subsets of the population, to measure the extent to which the values change across the sets.
Specification and adjustment allow apples-to-apples comparison; important in many clinical measures.
E.g. Low birthweight babies by socioeconomic class.
Adjustment
A statistical technique using specification to remove variation caused by differences in the relative size of subset populations.
Specification and adjustment allow apples-to-apples comparison; important in many clinical measures.
Recalculate the whole population rate from the specific rates, standardizing the characteristics of a single population. E.g. Age-adjusted rate for each state if its population had the same age distribution as the nations.
Common in clinical measures of cost and quality.
Deming’s special causes
Factors that are unique and may not recur- not worth investigating.
Deming’s common cause
A significant variation that should be investigated.
Standard Deviation
Used to compare two individual values
Standard Error
Used to compare two samples with several individual values in each.
5 Functions of Knowledge Management
- Ensuring the reliability and validity of data
- Maintaining communications for daily operations
- Supporting information retrieval for continuous improvement
- Ensuring the appropriate use and security of data
- Improving knowledge management services continuously
HR Functions
- Workforce planning
- Workforce development
- Workforce maintenance
- Empowerment, transformation, and service excellence
- Compensation and benefits management
- Collective bargaining
- Continuous improvement
Core files of HRM knowledge management
- Position control enter
- Personnel record
- Workforce plan
- Succession plan
- Payroll
- Employee satisfaction
- Training schedules and participation
- Benefit selection and utilization