CMS P4P project results.Analysis of a CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. pay-for-performance demonstration project finds significant mortality improvements among the participating hospitals. The 3-year Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID HQID Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration ) was analyzed an·a·lyze tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. by the Premier Healthcare alliance, which utilized some 1.1 million patient records from participating hospitals. The mortality improvements were found in the areas of hip and knee replacement, pneumonia pneumonia (n  mōn`yə), acute infection of one or both lungs that can be caused by a bacterium, usually Streptococcus pneumoniae , heart
bypass, heart failure and heart attack populations of participating
hospitals. In fact, Premier states that if all hospitals nationally were
to achieve the same results in these areas, they could save as many as
70,000 lives per year while reducing hospital costs by more than $4.5
billion annually.
The analysis shows that the median hospital costs per patient for HQID participating hospitals declined more than $1,000 across the first three years of the project while the median mortality rate decreased by 1.87 percent during the same time frame. Premier collects a set of more than 30 evidence-based clinical quality measures--developed by government and private organizations--from more than 250 hospitals across the country. HQID participating hospitals' median Composite Quality Score--a combination of clinical quality and outcome measures--improved by an average of 17.3 percent across all clinical areas between October 2003 and June 2007, the 15 quarters of the project. The median Appropriate Care Score, which designates when a patient receives all possible care measures in a clinical area, improved by an average of 52.6 percent during the same period. The CMS, Premier HQID project has been extended through 2009. Premier Inc. is owned by non-profit hospitals A non-profit hospital, or not-for-profit hospital, is a hospital which is organized as a non-profit corporation. Based on their charitable purpose and most often affiliated with a religious denomination they are a traditional means of delivering medical care in the United States. and is one of the leading healthcare purchasing networks as well as one of the nation's most comprehensive repositories While acknowledging services such as [ROAR: [1]] and [OpenDOAR: [2]] it is perhaps necessary to provide a list of individual repositories described in more detail within wikipedia here. of hospital clinical and financial information serving some 1,700 hospitals and 49,000 other healthcare sites. Premier is headquartered in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. with offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Washington. For more information on this analysis go to www.premierinc.com, or, click on the link in the Industry Watch section of the April issue on HMT's Web site. |
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