Topic: IHP 430 Health Quality Management:7-2 Final Project Submission: Organizational Performance Initiative
For your summative assignment, you will identify a departmental problem within a healthcare organization and develop a collaborative performance improvement initiative to address it.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
What Is the Organizational Problem?
a) Provide the organizational problem that you have chosen. How does this problem fail to meet quality or other regulatory requirements?
b) Articulate organizational challenges posed by the problem (e.g., interdepartmental conflicts, communication failure, budgeting issues).
Evidence-Based Support
a) Provide data that supports the existence of the problem. You may utilize public sources to find data related to your selected problem.
b) How has this problem been addressed in the past? What information management systems or patient care technologies have been utilized when addressing this problem? Be sure to use peer-reviewed literature to support your answer.
c) Discuss relevant accreditation standards, safety standards, compliance standards, and quality initiatives. How do these standards promote a culture of safety within the department? Be sure to cite the appropriate standards within your answer.
III. Performance Improvement Initiative
a) Propose an initiative that will address this problem within the department of your chosen healthcare organization. What specific relevant quality standard will this quality initiative address?
b) Describe the type of data that will reveal a quality outcome.
Implementation of the Plan in the Organization
a) How will this implementation plan be communicated among departments?
b) How will the data be displayed and shared with the organization?
c) If the plan for this initiative was implemented, what do you believe would be the hypothetical effect(s) on patient care outcomes? How will health information systems support those improvements in patient care?
d) What do you think the hypothetical effect of the quality or performance plan would be on the culture of safety within the organization?
Success of the Performance Improvement Plan
a) If this initiative is successful, how would the organization monitor the financial implications?
b) How would the current information management systems contribute to the success of your plan?
c) What current organizational processes will help the plan be successful?
d) How will the plan be communicated among departments? How will this communication help team members commit to the performance improvement plan?
