Educational material in this room is of interest to those pratitioners who are looking for information that is beyond the basic concepts of quality improvement.

Advanced Six Sigma, Lean Design, and More

• Six Sigma Primer [PDF] (current content)
• Business Process Reengineering Change management
• Balanced Scorecard Institute
• Six Sigma Resources
• IHI White Paper on Lean Health Care
• Improving Healthcare Microsystems Tools (Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center)

Presentations

• View recent ASHP Member presentations on health care quality topics

Sample Action Plans

• An Implementation Framework for Quality Improvement [PDF] current content
• Performance Improvement Toolkit from the USAID Prime II Project (step-by-step roadmap for performance improvement project management)
• The Baldridge Award process as a framework for improving the quality of patient care

Briefings on Quality Improvement

• Briefings from the National Quality Forum
• Institute of Medicine Reports on Healthcare Quality (contains links to online versions of the Quality Chasm Report Series including executive summaries)
• The Quality Choir (video presentations on QI topics by national experts)

Pay for Performance (P4P)

• The experts discuss P4P (read what your boss reads)
• CEO Survival Guide: Pay for Performance (Leapfrog Group)

Public Reporting:

• Hospital Compare (CMS)
• Quality Check (TJC)
• HealthGrades (Data on physicians, hospitals, nursing homes)
• ARHQ State Snapshots
• Data tools from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care

State Quality Initiatives

• State Health Policy Innovations (Commonwealth Fund)
• Health Data by State (Kaiser Foundation)
• Facts on State QIOs
• Directory of state QIOs

Case studies, demonstration projects NEW

• ASHP Research and Education Foundation Awards for Excellence in Medication Use Safety
• Premier Pay for Performance Demonstration Project