Continuous Quality Improvement For Health Information Management

Continuous Quality Improvement for Health Information Management is written for health information management (HIM) professionals who want to take a proactive approach to improving and maintaining quality, and who will not settle for less than peak performance.

Formerly known as Quality Improvement Techniques for Medical Records, this new edition addresses the latest strategies for making continuous quality improvement (CQI) part of your department's culture. And it introduces more CQI tools and techniques than ever before.

This practical resource includes an introduction by James H. Braden, the innovative system director of HIM at the Detroit Medical Center, and it offers:

• all new case studies that bring CQI theory to life and address some of HIM's most challenging issues
• more CQI tools and step-by-step descriptions of how to use them
• a complete, easy-to-use CQI implementation plan
• a comprehensive CQI inservice kit for staff education
• an updated resource guide
• tips to help readers and their staffs put CQI to work in their HIM departments