Rural Health Group, Inc'

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Rural Health Group, Inc.

• Information Technology The missing piece

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Why EMR The Iceberg
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It is about QUALITY

• Setting the vision the organization is in the
  business of clinical medicine
• Core business approach is quality through process
  management and measured outcomes

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• Strategic vision continuously self-improving
  organization dedicated to excellent quality
  healthcare using the best medical evidence
  available.
• Clinical quality is the primary business approach
  to reaching all the clinical, operational and
  financial goals established in the plan.

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• Once administration owns clinical quality as much
  as the physician and nurse, the organization is
  well on its way to changing the culture and
  effecting real change in the lives of its
  customers.

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• Harvard Business School case study
• Intermountain Health Care (6/29/2006)
• Harvard Business Review
• Fixing Healthcare From the Inside, Today
• Steven Spear (September 2005)
• IHI Designing Reliability into Healthcare
  Processes, Dr. Resar (January 2007)

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• THANK YOU..
• Brian O. Harris
• brian.harris_at_rhgnc.org
• Rural Health Group, Inc.
• [phone]