Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #107547

Simon Geletta, Ph D, Kathleen Schneider, PhD, Brian E. O'Donnell, PhD, and Marian Brenton, RN, MPA. Health Informatics, Iowa Foundation for Medical Care, 6000 Westown Parkway, West Des Moines, IA 50266, (515) 440-8619, kschneid@ifmc.org

Timely and reliable performance information can facilitate compliance with evidence-based practices. Comparative performance information can help motivate providers and supply positive feedback regarding improvements in clinical practice. Data repositories for monitoring evidence-based practices can become rather large, particularly if all providers in the state or nation are contributing information. Having a large clinical repository helps ensure the meaningfulness of comparative data, yet can pose challenges for distributing performance reports to providers. To enable timely aggregation and reporting of performance data, an online analytical processing tool (OLAP) is ideal. Users may quickly analyze performance information, which has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. Access to these Web based reports, and the data repository which populates the reports, can be controlled using role-based authentication. This enables different providers, data users, contractors, and etc. different levels of access to the underlying data. An OLAP application used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to monitor clinical performance will be demonstrated. Tabular reports, as well as graphical reports may be developed. If desirable, users may customize reports to answer their specific performance questions. Additionally, standard summary reports, which require no customization, may be embedded in the application.

Learning Objectives:

• Attendees will be introduced to an online analytical processing tool, designed to facilitate quality improvement.
• Users will understand the benefit of a variety of reporting options.

Keywords: Health Information Systems, Quality Improvement

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commertial supporters WITH THE EXCEPTION OF work on some contracts with CMS.

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