I am the Vice Chair of Quality Improvement and Population Health for UVM Children’s Hospital with special interest in improving care of children with complex medical conditions. I am also an Epic Physician Builder and Clinical Informaticist for UVM Medical Center with a focus on developing tools in the electronic medical record to improve adherence to guideline-based care. I recently participated in the evaluation of a novel measure for the Pediatric Quality Measures Program by leveraging quality improvement to increase adherence to National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute asthma guidelines resulting in decreased emergency room visits.
Objectives:
- Provide an overview of the IHI Model for Improvement as a lens to evaluate value in healthcare
- Understand the fundamentals of improvement science methodology: Interprofessional team, Global Aim, SMART Aim, Key Driver Diagrams, Pareto analysis, process flow maps
- Develop working knowledge to evaluate longitudinal quality data using run charts and statistical process control charts (i.e. P Charts)