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Real-Time Data Analytics to Improve Your National Scores and CAHPS Performance.
Qualitick is the industry leader in real-time performance measurement and analytics for rapid-cycle quality improvement. Qualitick helps improve CAHPS scores with cutting-edge solutions for patient experience, electronic rounding, patient call-backs, and employee engagement.
LEAD SMARTER. START NOWWhy Traditional Methods Have Failed
Few Options
For decades, the healthcare industry has depended on, and been conditioned to, traditional post-visit patient surveying. Modes such as mail, phone, email, and, more recently, SMS text messages, have been employed to establish levels of patient care received. These methods were mostly employed for two main reasons: (a) there were no other viable modes, and (b) the industry became conditioned and comfortable in using them.
Low Response Rates and Poor Data Accuracy.
The ramifications of using these traditional methods are significant. They yield very low response rates, which impacts data accuracy, and which, in turn, impacts the ability to affect improvements. This major obstacle is compounded by the fact that it can then take weeks, and sometimes months, to receive collected data. Therefore, healthcare leaders are waiting a long time to receive very little data, effectively setting them up to fail before they begin.
Introduction of CAHPS
With the advent of the CAHPS era, medical leaders have been challenged in not only attaining high patient satisfaction scores through better outcomes, but also sustaining them month-after-month. Additionally, CAHPS has essentially created a “national beauty contest,” where each medical facility is pitted against the others to avoid financial penalties and attain high star ratings, while also publishing hospital performance scores for public consumption and scrutiny.
CMS mandates the use of mail/phone surveys for CAHPS, but has made it clear that CAHPS data is for hospital level comparisons, and not for comparing wards, floors, or staff members. However, CMS does NOT preclude (as many commonly believe) hospitals from pre-surveying patients, as long as they follow CMS guidelines. This has resulted in medical leaders looking for new ways to survey patients in conjunction with the mandated methods, which helps them overcome the low response rates, low data accuracy, and delayed reporting delivery issues. Real-time point-of-care surveying has demonstrated that it’s the only viable, sustainable, and cost-effective method.
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CMS and Others Agree
“CMS emphasizes that HCAHPS scores are designed and intended for use at the hospital level for the
comparison of hospitals to each other. CMS does not review or endorse the use of HCAHPS scores for
comparisons within hospitals, such as comparison of HCAHPS scores associated with a particular ward,
floor, individual staff member, to others. Such comparisons are unreliable unless large sample sizes are collected at the ward, floor, or individual staff member level…HCAHPS is not appropriate for comparing or assessing individual hospital staff members. Using HCAHPS scores to compare or assess individual staff members is inappropriate and is strongly discouraged by CMS.”
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services HCAHPS Quality Assurance Guideline V11.0, March 2018.
“No one wants to complete an 80-question survey via mail—or any other mode, for that matter. That
is why traditional means of collecting feedback from patients and residents yield small and out-of-date
samples that often fails to deliver the understanding needed for physicians and staff to engage and
improve.”
- NRC Health (NRChealth.com), February, 2019.
Benefits of Qualitick
DATA-COLLECTION
Whether you are e-rounding, obtaining patient feedback, discharge phone calls, patient safety checks, staff surveys and reviews, you can quickly collect your data via Qualitick tablets, which we provide, on our custom Apps for your iOS or Android tablets and phones.
REAL-TIME EARLY WARNING ALERTS
The Qualitick program automatically sends real-time early warning alerts via e-mail and/or SMS text message. Our sophisticated distribution system gives you the flexibility to setup your alert preferences exactly how you need it, so the right people, get the right alerts, at the right time.
AUTOMATIC PERFORMANCE REPORTING
Too busy to get onto the reporting dash boards? No worries. The Qualitick program automatically emails your preferred reports, at whatever frequency you desire.
Leader
Dashboards
Analyze group/individual performance reports and charts on PC browser.
Provider/Nurse Portals
Provider/nurse dashboards for individuals to analyze their own
performance.
Auto Reports
Automatically receive performance reports when you need them via email.
Data-collection
on Your Mobile
Devices
E-rounding, discharge calls, safety checks,
etc
Data-Collection
on Qualitick Devices
Patient feedback, e-rounding, discharge calls, safety checks, etc.
Early-WarningAlerts
Via email and/or SMS text message.
Mobile
Dashboards
Analyze group/individual performance reports and charts on tablets and smartphones
LEADERSHIP PERFORMANCE REPORTS
Leaders can review performance reports for all collected data on our state-of-the art dashboards through your PC browser. Our interactive dash boards provide critical data-analysis and insight for group and individual performance across all of your e-rounds and surveys. Also, coming soon, is access to reporting dash boards via our Apps for your iOS and Android tablets/phones.
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE PORTALS
In addition to leadership dashboards, we offer individual performance portals for nurses and providers to access their personal performance reports. Studies have shown that when individuals are provided personal performance data, they often take responsibility for their own performance improvement. And if a core group of your nurses/providers improve their own performance scores, group scores can also elevate.
Improving CAHPS Scores
To improve and attain superior HCAHPS scores requires a scientific approach, a method which can be replicated to produce desired results. The scientific approach is illustrated by the following simple model incorporating the Internal/External analysis.
External Data-Collection and Reporting
Has to provide high quantity and quality of data. The data must be timely (i.e., real-time) and the reporting of data-intelligence has to be robust such that it fosters superior understanding of processes and execution by staff. This is the primary reason why many hospitals cannot elevate their HCAHPS scores. Hospitals often rely only on the CMS mandated mail/phone surveys, which do not provide any of these necessary attributes. Therefore, CMS implores hospitals not to depend on their mandated method of data collection.
Internal Analysis and Application
Having all the necessary data in your possession is not enough; it has to be understood and then correctly applied. It’s critical that medical providers understand the mechanics of HCAHPS scoring (i.e., Top Box), as its improvement in this score which elevates national standing. Medical leaders should be responsive to survey alerts, thoroughly analyze data-intelligence, and then apply this improved understanding by formulating strategies and tactics in order to improve process and execution.
Testimonials & Case Studies
“With the Qualitick trending data it became apparent that wait times were an issue, so a policy was put in place where patients were notified about wait times more frequently. This in turn had a huge positive impact on patient perception about wait times, as opposed to not knowing and having to wait. Qualitick data, was reviewed regularly across all ED teams, discussions would take place and plans were implemented for improvement. Our Qualitick account manager was always in close contact with the Quality Process and Data Analysis team, and this was the catalyst in effectively implementing strategies for success. Once upward trends in our Press-Ganey score became apparent, the results were presented to C-Suite, who now intend to use the same methodology in the clinic setting and the inpatient side.”
Candie MillerQuality Manager
- Cobleskill Regional Hospital, NY.
“We use Qualitick surveys in the outpatient departments of our hospital including ER, surgery, and radiology. The survey tablets are easy and convenient for patients to complete and provide immediate feedback for supervisors to recognize exceptional care or provide quick service recovery. Qualitick survey reports are informative with the capabilities to compare a wide range of metrics for process improvement.”
Staci Jones, MBA, BSN, RNCNO|COO -
Methodist McKinney Hospital, TX.
Bassett Healthcare Network®
This case study outlines how Cobleskill Regional Hospital ED successfully employed the Qualitick program to dramatically, and consistently, improve their Press-Ganey scores and national ranking.
CASE STUDYENVISION®
With the never-ending list of challenges facing emergency departments today, increasing patient satisfaction is more challenging than ever before. But because EDs are the front door to the hospital for many patients, high patient satisfaction is critical to a hospital’s reputation and success.
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