You have just been hired as Director of HIM at Quality Hospital. Your first task as Director is to develop three quality improvement projects for the department. Each project must address the following:

Issue/Problem

Which stakeholders will you include in the project and why?

Current Process

Data Collection Tool(s) – actual tool(s) must be created

Data Collection

How much data will you collect? Provide rationale

How long will it take to collect the data? Provide rationale

What obstacles might you encounter during data collection? How might you avoid these issues?

After the data has been collected, which display methods will you utilize to display your data to report to the Quality Improvement Committee’s dashboard? (you must choose a minimum of two). Why are these display methods the most effective mode of display for your data?

You now have implemented an improvement based on the information collected. What will you do in order to monitor the implementation and what will determine if the implementation was successful?