The Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs encourage patient involvement in their health care. Online access to health information allows patients to make informed decisions about their care and share their most recent clinical information with other health care providers and personal caregivers.

The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations is hosting a two-part webinar.  Part 1 is ideal for those beginning to assess their health center’s ability to incorporate enabling services within NextGen Electronic Health Records. The webinar will cover the NextGen utilities necessary to import and access enabling services templates and will show a preview of the open source NextGen Enabling Services (ES) template and examples of ES reports.

IHI invites you and your colleagues to join us on November 2–4, 2016, in Washington, DC, for a brand new seminar, Applying Value Management to Health Care, featuring Lean expert Brian H. Maskell, President of BMA, Inc. This seminar is designed to help Quality, Clinical, and Financial teams learn how to speak the same language — and use the same tools — so that each decision made comes with an understanding of associated costs and the impact on patient care. Front-line managers can make decisions with knowledge of their financial impact. For ideal quality and process improvement, managers should not only have better cost estimates alongside usable outcomes data, but be able to access dynamic cost and outcomes information as a means to obtaining real-time feedback. 

This job description tool provides a position summary for a Quality Director. This position is responsible for identifying, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the overall clinical and organizational quality at a site, coordinating Joint Commission compliance activities and Information Technology functions. Quality Directors are responsible for collecting and analyzing data to identify improvement opportunities and recommending action plans to address quality concerns.

This job description tool provides a position summary for a Quality Improvement Specialist, sample job functions, sample skill requirements, and sample education and experience requirements. This tool is intended to be used like a menu.