Yes - it is auditing patient charts while they are either still in the hospital or have gone home. The purpose is to gather data mainly for The Joint Commission or The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). They want to see that hospitals ...
Hi RHIA RN - sorry for the delay! We are not yet concurrent, but we have taken months of core measure (CM) retroactive abstraction down to about being only 2 or so weeks behind. This has become easier in the last 6 months as many of the CMs have been...
If you are happen to be interested in data abstraction/auditing for clinical Core Measures (not sure if that is what you mean as well) I can help you find those CMS guidelines!
Hey nurses, I've been a nurse for 19 years and have been in the quality improvement department for nearly a decade. My questions to you all are, in your hospital: Do you have any contact with people in the Quality department? Do you know what the qua...
I am currently a quality improvement and informatics nurse, and am very interested in moving into the specialty of nursing innovation leadership. Of all advanced nursing practice tracks, I feel it is the most natural next step for me. Has any nurse ...
NurseEvolution replied to DragonflyLady17's topic in Informatics
As for school: I attended the MSN in Informatics program at Walden University. I felt is was a good program (completely manageable with work) and it is accredited. In fact, many of their faculty are trailblazers in the Informatics specialty. Right no...
I am the lead in our Quality department for the transition from chart-abstracted measures to eCQMs. We are working directly with the Meaningful Use Informaticist and Epic vendor contact who will guide the transition and produce the files needed for ...
I was a CDS in a prior position and really liked it. I had stepped away from the bedside, but felt that I was able to keep current on nursing practice by having my nose in charts all day, which I enjoyed. My training was with a major vendor who deve...
Have you contacted your Quality department? In my organization, a Quality data analyst and usually a project manager type of nurse helps the organization submit, track and trend the required nursing sensitive indicators data. Also, our CNO is the cha...
