Celebrating our successes and quality-improvement experience

If you don’t measure, you don’t know whether you've improved. In HealthTeamWorks’ quest for continual improvement and to measure our impact, we track — or assist our partner practices in tracking — many metrics, from quality measures to incorporation of practice systems to patient and clinician satisfaction. We design our programs to satisfy the objectives of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim:

• Improve the health of the population; 
• Enhance the patient experience of care (including quality, access and reliability); and 
• Reduce, or at least control, the per capita cost of care.

The graphs below show some of our recent accomplishments and measurable impact. Print a report.

►The pilot practices consistently collect and analyze their data and make changes to improve their outcomes. The solid infrastructure established by HealthTeamWorks encourages improvement in all goal areas: clinical quality, cost trends and the experience of patients and the medical team.

►The aggregated data depicted below are from PCMH Foundations (IPIP initiative) third-party evaluator – the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado, Denver. The results reflect 53 of the 77 practices during the evaluation period that had at least six months of data. As with other QI programs, our results show that process measures improve before outcomes.