Health Data Quest: How to Find and Use Data for Performance Improvement

Improve clinical performance and demonstrate value to health carepurchasers and insurers by becoming a ＂data detective＂ within yourorganization. Health Data Quest is the practical guide to the mostcurrent and promising emerging measurement tools, and providesguidance for effectively and efficiently finding, interpreting, presenting, and using data.

This much-needed book is filled with the essential information, instructive models, and useful tools managers and executives needto create a program that can clearly demonstrate how a health careorganization offers quality care in a cost-effective manner, including how to build a data warehouse.

JILL LENK SCHILP, RN, MS, CPHQ, is a certified professional in health care quality and program director for clinical effectiveness with VHA, Inc. ROY E. GILBREATH, MD, is a practicing internist and vice president of system clinical services, Promina Gwinnette Health System.