Methodologies & Models
Lumetra Healthcare Solutions regularly integrates quality and performance improvement methodologies designed to help our clients achieve maximum rapid improvements. These include:
- Continuous Quality (Breakthrough) Improvements — Promotes rapid improvement through small, incremental tests of change.
- Collaborative Model — Utilizes resources efficiently and promotes rapid cycle improvement toward common goals through collaboration among providers.
- Organizational Culture Change — Engages senior leaders in QI process and encourages input at the staff level. Promotes positive behaviors for staff retention and satisfaction.
- Lean Management — The Kaizen methodology and toolset identify waste and target improvement strategies that enhance the quality of any delivery system.
- Chronic Care Model — Places patient needs and education at the center of healthcare and community systems. Productive interactions lead to patients being active in their own care and improving outcomes.
- Root Cause Analysis — A method of analyzing unexpected events and untoward outcomes to determine all of the underlying causes of the event and recommend changes to improve them.
- TeamSTEPPS™ — The highly effective teamwork training program (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) developed by the Department of Defense and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
