This course will introduce students to quality in health including principles frameworks, policies, and processes to ensure the accuracy, reliability, relevance, timeliness, coherence, clarity, and accessibility of data against standards and quality criteria. Standards development organizations, the Standards Lifecycle, and development and pan-Canadian standards such as SNOMED CT, LOINC, pCLOCD, HL7, ICD-10-CA, and CCI will be covered. Learners will be introduced to quality management practices such as CQI, LEAN, and TQM as well as common principles and practices for creation of indicators, benchmarks, metrics, and reports. The course will cover clinical indicators (e.g. HSMR and readmission rates) as they relate to their role in monitoring health care quality. Organizational practices for maintaining data quality and data integrity will be discussed. Learners will explore tools used for terminology, nomenclature, classification, abstraction, encoding, and data submission.
No Scheduled Class Meetings, September 23 - December 1 (Online)
Location:
ONLINE
Instructor:
Skye Preston
Notes:
This course will include 2-3 non-mandatory webinars throughout the term. Dates of the Webinars will be posted in the course schedule in the Learning Management System. All webinars will be recorded. Please note registering after the course start date may delay course access and does not permit exceptions to coursework due dates, late textbook purchases, or the refund policy
Instructors
Skye Preston
Skye is currently employed with the Saskatchewan Health Authority as a Certified Health Information Management Practitioner working in Acute Care and Mental Health.
She holds a joint Honours Bachelor of Arts in History and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies and graduated from Fleming College Health Information Management Program in 2014. Immediately after graduation, Skye moved to Saskatchewan to begin working for the former Prairie North Regional Health Authority. While there, she was a member of the NACRS Implementation Committee, to implement NACRS coding in the health region, which has expanded to most Acute Care facilities in Saskatchewan.
After the provincial amalgamation into the Saskatchewan Health Authority, Skye currently sits on the Provincial Coding Steering Committee. She is currently working on her Coding Specialist Program with CHA Learning.
