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Link Quality and Financial Management: Strategies to Engage the Chief Financial Officer and Provide Value for Patients

One of the primary goals of the Improvement Map is to offer participants as many useful resources as we can. Please take advantage of these documents and tools.  Note that certain documents require registration on IHI.org. Registration is quick, easy, and free.

 

Getting Started

Emerging Content — Linking Quality and Financial Management: Strategies to Engage the Chief Financial Officer and Provide Value for Patients

 

Tools

Adverse Events Prevented Calculator
In response to widespread interest in making the "business case" for quality, IHI developed a business case calculator which can be used to model the financial implications of reductions in adverse event rates.

Building the Business Case for Quality
Slides by IHI Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Maureen Bisognano

PowerPoint presentation about West Penn Allegheny's findings about financial implications of working on Improvement Map and Campaign interventions

Rapid Response Team Return on Investment Calculator

The Business Case for Implementing Rapid Response Teams PowerPoint Presentation

 

Tools below were developed by Safe & Sound, an Arizona patient safety initiative through the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association

PowerPoint about Building a Business Case for Patient Safety

Patient Safety Factoid Log with Source Websites

Sample Business Case for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

Business Profile for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

 

Resources

Listen to a Recording of the Financial and Performance Implications Call

Lean Enterprise Institute

CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration

Connecting Finance and Quality, Healthcare Financial Management, October 2008

Finding the balance between quality and cost, Healthcare Financial Management, April 2006

 

Discussion Groups

Participate in a discussion on this topic.

 

Calls and Webinar Recordings
In order to play the recordings you will need to download a free WebEx player.

 Listen to the recording of the February 3 Linking Quality and Financial Management Introductory call.  Download the slides from the call in PowerPoint or PDF format.

 

 

 

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