Addressing Clinic Efficiencies
This two-year project will provide an opportunity for each health department to work with paid or state consultants to identify, develop and implement effective medical models of clinical efficiency to improve public health practice, and ultimately, better serve our communities. A final report will be developed and disseminated to the other Incubator Collaboratives through the Incubator website and conferences.
Resources
Greenbook Quality Improvement (QI) Tool
The following tool provides tools and methods that "busy clinical teams can use to improve the quality and value of patient care as well as the work-life of all staff who contribute to patient care. These methods can be adapted to a wide variety of clinical settings, large and small, urban and rural, community-based and academic."
IMPORTANT COPYRIGHT INFORMATION FROM FOLLOWING RESOURCE: This workbook was developed with tools to give ideas to those interested in improving healthcare. “Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and the developers of this workbook are pleased to grant use of these materials without charge, providing that recognition is given for their development, that any alterations to the documents for local suitability and acceptance are shared in advance, and that the uses are limited to their own use and not for re-sale.”
Clinical Microsystems: Assessing, Diagnosing and Treating Your Outpatient Primary Care Practice (doc)
Tools Developed
Costing Tool for Health Departments
The following presentation provides an overview of the HealthMETRICS unit costing tool to determine costs for services for health departments. This presentation is one of several products developed as part of the clinic efficiencies improvement initiative by the Southern Piedmont Partnership, and is available to all health departments in North Carolina. Contact Cappie Stanley, partnership coordinator for more information.