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ASQ Webinar: Physician Profiles — Impact on Quality
Free Online Event to Help Medical Staffs Create, Manage Profiles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 1, 2008 — Physician profiles are becoming an integral part of hospital appointment, reappointment and ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) as now required by The Joint Commission. A free seminar offered via the Web by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) www.asq.org will provide direction on creating a profile, as well as potential pitfalls and how to avoid them.
Henry Johnson, M.D., MPH, medical director of the MIDAS software division of ACS Healthcare Solutions, will provide insight on physician profiling in this new free webinar scheduled for Wednesday, July 30, 1–2 p.m. CDT. The seminar is sponsored by Statit Software, a leader in continuous performance improvement solutions for healthcare. This event will be of interest to healthcare professionals involved with hospital medical staffs and others in healthcare administration, services and policy information who need to provide themselves with the tools and the education to understand how to deploy ongoing professional practice evaluation and ultimately improve care delivery. Dr. Johnson will examine how to build a quality profile that includes accurate and reliable data, how to design required quality performance measures and how to implement a step-by-step process that minimizes risk of failure.
Healthcare professionals can register for the webinar via ASQ at www.asq.org/healthcareqps/.
Dr. Johnson’s experience includes serving the five-hospital Scripps Health System in San Diego as Vice president of Clinical Measurement and Outcomes, and working as an Institute of Medical Quality surveyor for the California hospital accreditation program.
“As the healthcare industry continues to change rapidly, we are pleased to offer webinars with experts who provide the most current insight to help professionals do their jobs more effectively,” said ASQ President Michael Nichols.
The American Society for Quality, www.asq.org, has been the world’s leading authority on quality for more than 60 years. With more than 93,000 individual and organizational members, the professional association advances learning, quality improvement and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide. As champion of the quality movement, ASQ offers technologies, concepts, tools and training to quality professionals, quality practitioners and everyday consumers, encouraging all to Make Good Great®. ASQ has been the sole administrator of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award since 1991. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., ASQ is a founding partner of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a prominent quarterly economic indicator, and also produces the Quarterly Quality Report.
