Often, quality efforts in healthcare are focused too much on retrospective reporting of measures, and not on improvement of those measures. It’s important to understand the past, but that alone does not drive improved patient outcomes. To drive measureable improvement, you need to identify the root cause of care gaps and apply the intelligence within clinician workflows to close those gaps.

As a result of the rise in population health management, solutions have emerged to help healthcare organizations take this next step. For example, a clinical analyst can quickly drill down in a specific ACO 33 measure to determine the root cause of non-compliance, then guide actions of clinicians to remedy that gap. Advanced population health solutions can track gaps and surface areas of non-compliance within the workflow of the EMR while the physician is still in the presence of a patient. This enables a physician to address gaps before the patient leaves. Care managers can have a task list automatically generated for them that prioritizes their daily activities. These are just a few of the many practical ways that new solutions are innovating quality improvement efforts.

Check out this infographic to learn more about the impact of poor quality on patients, healthcare providers and the economy—and how it can be remedied. You can also download our whitepaper entitled ‘Quality Improvement in the Advent of Population Health Management’ by completing this form.