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    Quality measures in healthcare

     

    Quantify the success of healthcare processes, outcomes, patient care, and more

    CU Orthopedics Quality Program

    Partnering with PatientIQ to Improve Quality Care Across All Orthopedic Specialties

    “As our patient population continues to grow, we must ensure that we maintain our standard of excellence throughout the practice,” said Kenneth Hunt, MD, vice president of quality, patient safety, and outcomes in orthopedics.

    How CU Medicine Leverages PatientIQ to Maintain a Center of Excellence Designation

    What are quality measures in healthcare?

    According to CMS.gov, "Quality measures are tools that help us measure or quantify healthcare processes, outcomes, patient perceptions, and organizational structure and/or systems that are associated with the ability to provide high-quality health care and/or that relate to one or more quality goals for health care. These goals include effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered, equitable, and timely care."

    Through leveraging the data collected through PatientIQ we are able to:

    • Ensure patient safety 
    • Guide our patients in their decision-making on their treatment
    • Help our patients make more informed choices about the health care they receive
    • Patients see how they are improving after the treatment is implemented
    • Discover areas where interventions might improve care
    • Analyze trends
    • Benchmark patient populations
    • Generate insights into how to best treat patients over time 
    • Provide objective data to encourage change in policy discussions on healthcare programs

    • Mission
    • Who We Are
    • Quality Resources
    • Outcomes
    • U-COSMOS

    Best Orthopedic group in Denver. Best Orthopedic group in Colorado. And one of the top 20 orthopedic surgery programs in the country. Creating quality care in health care through outcome measures.

    Our doctors help make UCHealth and Children's Hospital Colorado the best in the region, so we're honored to be nationally ranked by U.S. News and World Report. It's our mission to lead the community in high-quality, innovative orthopedic care. And as part of an academic medical institution, we're also leading the field with cutting-edge musculoskeletal research and training the next generation of orthopedic surgeons.

    Our Mission
    • To provide the highest quality, professional and ethical care to all patients through integration of comprehensive education and exceptional musculoskeletal research.
    Our Vision
    • To lead the community in the highest quality of Orthopedic care for all patients
    • To educate all individuals to the highest standards of patient care, professionalism, and ethics
    • To create centers of excellence within Orthopedic care, recognized on a national level
    Our Values
    • Provide quality and innovative care to all patients
    • Promote integrity and respect all interactions
    • Educate professional, ethical, and competent clinicians and scientists
    • Holistic governance in a transparent and financially responsible fashion
    • Create a diverse environment that fosters excellence and rewarding opportunities
    • Create collaborative and integrative units that promote education, research, clinical care and community service
    CU Orthopedics Fast Facts 2022

    Kenneth Hunt, MD Kenneth Hunt, MD

    Associate Professor and Chief- Foot and Ankle Surgery
    Vice Chair-Quality, Patient Safety and Outcomes

    Dr. Ken Hunt is the Director of the UCHealth Foot and Ankle Center, Associate Professor and Vice-Chair of Quality, Patient Safety, and Outcomes for the University of Colorado Department of Orthopedics. His philosophy of care is the commitment to his patients and their families to deliver care that is supported by the highest order of compassion, innovation, science, and technology. He enjoys spending time with his family, skiing, hiking, and traveling.

     

     


     

    Our Team

    Venkatesh Prasad GaalleeVenkatesh Prasad Gaallee, MS
    Quality Program Manager

    Venkatesh graduated from the University of Colorado Denver with a Master’s degree in Information Systems. He is the Quality Program Manager overseeing the quality program in the department of Orthopedics. Venkatesh’s goal is to improve the quality program in the department by bettering customer experience, automating data analytics, and raising compliance. Away from work, he is a sports enthusiast. He loves to watch and play cricket, soccer, volleyball, and FIFA in his PS5.


    Samantha BerenySamantha Bereny, BA
    Quality Program Assistant

    Sam Bereny graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a BA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. In addition to working with the Hand/Wrist Research Team, Sam also supports the patient-reported outcomes initiative at the University of Colorado’s Department of Orthopedics – Steadman Hawkins Clinic.



    Brinnlie HarwardBrinnlie Harward, BS
    Quality Program Assistant

    Brinnlie graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She supports the University of Colorado’s Department of Orthopedics quality program at multiple locations. In her free time, she enjoys skiing, surfing, attending sporting events, and traveling.  

    The Department of Orthopedics would like to highlight the following resources to help both clinicians and individuals interested in orthopedic quality improvement.

    • Initiating a New Quality Program? Explore Quality Registry Resources Reviewed by Our CU Orthopedics Quality Program Team
    • New Patient-Reported Outcomes Platform: CU Orthopedics Researchers Discuss Launch Insights

    Outcomes

    The Department of Orthopedics recently contracted with Chicago-based PatientIQ, a leader in secure delivery and measurement of patient-reported outcomes, to initiate the collection and analysis of outcomes from patients receiving care from five of our adult clinical sub-specialities.

     

    U-COSMOS Poster Presentation

    The Importance of Patient Resilience on Outcomes Following Foot and Ankle Orthopaedic Surgery

    Preoperative Resilience Among Patients Undergoing Sports, Trauma, and Reconstructive Surgery

    Patient Reported Outcomes Following Treatment with Leukocyte Rich Platelet Rich Plasma Injections for Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy

    Implementation of a system-wide orthopaedic outcomes database: The University of Colorado Orthopaedic Surgery Monitoring of Outcomes System (U-COSMOS)

    Tracking Patient-Reported Outcome Scores and Volume Injected For Treatment of Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy with Leukocyte-Rich Platelet Rich Plasma

    U-COSMOS


    U-COSMOS (University of Colorado Surgical Monitoring and Outcomes System) is a consortium of outcomes-focused providers from all sub-specialties within the Department of Orthopedics. Check here periodically for recent U-COSMOS publications.

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    Randy Voss rehabs at UCHealth Steadman Hawkins Clinic – Denver after his successful ankle replacement surgery last year.

    University of Colorado Medicine Expands Partnership with PatientIQ to Enhance Quality Across Specialties

    How Patient Outcomes Survey Helps Measure Effectiveness of Orthopedic Procedures

    University of Colorado Medicine (CU Medicine), the region’s largest and most comprehensive multi-specialty physician group practice, has expanded its partnership with PatientIQ to prioritize quality improvement across multiple clinical specialties. With more than 3,500 physicians and advance practice providers, CU Medicine first partnered with PatientIQ in 2019 to collect and measure patient-reported outcomes specific to its orthopedic practice. Today, CU Medicine utilizes the PatientIQ platform to leverage outcomes data within its integrated spine center, orthopedics, sports medicine, plastic surgery, and physical and occupational therapy. The expansion enables CU Medicine to comprehensively measure the quality of its clinical care.

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    The PatientIQ program at UCHealth uses patient reported outcomes to assess treatment success.

    Growing up outside Cleveland in the 1970s, Randy Voss spent plenty of time playing competitive sports on the football field and basketball court. He endured plenty of nicks and dings as a result, and often hobbled about on crutches, both during and after high school. His ankles took the most abuse. “I had a lot of sprains,” he said, adding that he simply pushed through them. There wasn’t much in the way of sophisticated medical care, and slow healing wasn’t his goal anyway.  “You just tried to get back on the field as soon as you could,” Voss said.

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