Lumetra Healthcare Solutions

Lumetra recently joined with more than 130 organizations that advocate recommendations to the Obama administration and Congress to assure that quality measurement and improvement are central components of healthcare reform. This coalition, Stand for Quality, joins the energies of both public and private sectors to strengthen healthcare quality, ensuring reform not only expands coverage but also improves patient care. The coalition identifies distinct roles for the public and private sectors to work in partnership to measure quality and use those results to drive continuous improvement. Six recommendations, building on work already underway, will create an integrated infrastructure that will put information to inform their decisions in the hands of providers, purchasers, and consumers of healthcare.

1. We must improve quality in healthcare and make it more affordable. There are examples all over the country of high quality, affordable health care being delivered everyday. We need to create a health care system that builds on these examples to

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Lumetra has scheduled a Web conference on Tuesday, April 21 at 12:00 noon Pacific entitled: The Patient Centered Medical Home: What Does it Mean for Clinical Practice? The one-hour event is provided at no charge.

This Web conference will introduce participants to the patient-centered medical home, which is an innovative model for primary care that is structured to provide superior quality of care in physician practices by delivering comprehensive, ongoing, and coordinated care for people of all ages and all clinical conditions.

Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH, who is the Consulting Medical Director – Quality & Informatics at Lumetra will conduct the call. Dr. Scherger is a Clinical Professor of Family & Preventive Medicine at the University of California – San Diego. His primary focus is the redesign of the medical office practice using the tools of Health Information Technology and the methods of Quality Improvement. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and served on the IOM… Read More

While the Collaborative that was scheduled to begin in May has been postponed, you still have a chance to partner with Lumetra in TeamSTEPPS teamwork training. After listening to our potential customers from a variety of healthcare settings, Lumetra decided that more time is needed for budgeting and that other models for short-term workshops should be considered. Stay posted for future notices and updates about TeamSTEPPS training opportunities with Lumetra! Meanwhile, go to www.ahrq.gov/teamstepps and order your free CD/DVD multimedia resource kit. It will be a valuable resource for your Patient Safety Program!

Lumetra delivers high-quality, evidence-based methodology, tools, skills, and insights to help design projects, analyze data, evaluate results, and promote quality improvement in healthcare. A national leader in developing, implementing, and managing comprehensive education and training programs that result in measurable improvements in healthcare quality, Lumetra uses evidence-based guidelines, best practices, collaborative approaches, and rigorous statistical methods to help our customers advance their professional excellence, accelerate system-wide improvements, increase quality outcomes, and promote culturally responsive care. We assist healthcare providers in realizing their vision of improving the quality, safety, equality, and efficiency of patient care across multiple clinical settings.

Lumetra is committed to using and providing evidence-based interventions to guide our quality improvement, patient safety, and care coordination efforts. Lumetra’s strategies rely on the promotion of evidence-based interventions and program evaluation approaches, development of relevant intervention tools and resources, and a foundation of strong partnerships with key stakeholders.

Using evidence-based design is a five-step process:

1. Understand. Receive question from a

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Julia Slininger, RN, BS, CPHQ, who has been a member of the California Association for Healthcare Quality (CAHQ) for many years, considers it a privilege to work with other board members in this dynamic organization that serves and supports California healthcare quality professionals. Ms. Slininger, who is a Lumetra Senior Healthcare Consultant and TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer, begins her position as Education Chairperson this month and will serve for one year, at a minimum.