Educational Resources
Stories of Success Meaningful Use Case Studies
The following case studies are from mature organizations that have successfully addressed many meaningful use topic areas. These snapshots provide insight into what can be achieved through leveraging health information technology and serve as guideposts.
Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA)
Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC)
Texas Health Resources (THR)
Greater Rochester Independent Practice Association (GRIPA)
National Priorities Partnership Goals
National Quality Forum (NQF) is a proud member of the National Priorities Partnership. The Partnership, convened by NQF in 2008, is working to transform the nation’s healthcare system to ensure all Americans have access to safe and affordable healthcare. The 48 Partners represent those who pay for, deliver, and evaluate healthcare – they are uniquely positioned to bring about substantive change. The Partners are collaborating on actions around six National Priorities that, together, represent the greatest potential for change:
- Patient and Family Engagement to provide patient-centered, effective care
- Population Health - To bring greater focus on wellness and prevention
- Safety – To improve reliability and eliminate errors wherever and whenever possible
- Care Coordination – To provide patient-centered, high-value care
- Palliative and end-of-life care – To guarantee appropriate and compassionate care for patients with advanced illnesses
- Overuse – To remove waste and achieve effective, affordable care
The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals
The purpose of the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals is to promote specific improvements in patient safety. The Goals highlight problematic areas in health care and describe evidence and expert-based solutions to these problems. Recognizing that sound system design is intrinsic to the delivery of safe, high quality health care, the Goals focus on system-wide solutions, wherever possible.
2012 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals
- Improve the accuracy of patient identification.
- Improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers.
- Improve the safety of using medications.
- Reduce the risk of health care–associated infections.
- Identify safety risks inherent in the patient population
- Prevent wrong site, wrong patient, wrong person surgery
- Improve accuracy of patient identification
- Improve the safety of using medications
- Reduce the risk of healthcare associated infections
- Prevent wrong site, wrong patient, wrong person surgery
View the Joint Commission Patient Safety Goals
Partnership for Patients Goals:
- Keep patients from getting injured or sicker and Help patients heal without complication.
- Reduce re-admissions
Areas of focus: adverse drug events, catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), central line associated blood stream infections (CLABSI), injuries from falls and immobility, obstetrical adverse events, pressure ulcers, surgical site infections, venous thromboembolism (VTE), ventilator-associated pneumonia (AVP) and other hospital-acquired conditions.