HIT 242 Healthcare Quality Improvement Ch 1-6 & 18

1. A graphic display tool used to communicate the details of performance improvement activities is called - Storyboard 1. A PI team role responsible for championing the effectiveness of PI activities in meeting customers' needs and for the content of a team's work is the - Team Leader 1. A PI team that involves staff from more than one department, service area, or discipline is called a: - Cross-functional team 1. A system in which purchasers hold providers of healthcare accountable for both the costs of healthcare and its quality is called: - Value-based purchasing 1. During a PI team meeting, the leader asked members of the team to provide ideas on how to reduce the coding backlog. Each team member offered their ideas on how to reduce the coding backlog as they came up with them and the team leader recorded them on the white board. What PI tool is being used in this example? - Unstructured brainstorming 1. Each healthcare organization must identify and prioritize which processes and outcomes (in other words, which types of data) are important to monitor. This data collection should be based on the scope of care and services the healthcare organization provides and ______. - It's