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Summary Sentence: Design of Hospital Quality and Safety Programs in an Era of Big Data
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Kevin DellspergerSpeakers :
Kevin Dellsperger
Title:
Design of Hospital Quality and Safety Programs in an Era of Big Data
Abstract:
The overall objectives of this presentation are to provide insight into the safety of the health care environment, impact of public reporting on quality and clinical outcomes, roles of public and private partnerships and understanding where the gap is for health care organizations. Specifically, the presentation will provide an overview of safety from the eyes of a patient as they use the health care system. We will discuss errors in care and some of the causes of those errors. Through understanding the root cause of errors, systems of care can be designed to improve the care process. The role of the Federal Government in driving quality and safety will be discussed as it relates to financial penalties in the Medicare program. In order to accelerate growth and improvement a new model of care using public and private partnerships and how they may help transform the health environment of the future. A key component of these partnerships is to address the massive amount of information needed by the clinicians to provide decision support for high quality and safe care.
Bio:
Kevin C. Dellsperger, MD, PhD is Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Georgia Regents Health System and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. A native of New Orleans, LA, he received his BS from Tulane University in Biomedical Engineering. He received his MD and PhD from LSU Medical Center in Shreveport, LA. After completing his Residency and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Iowa, he joined the faculty where he was promoted to Professor. During his time at Iowa, he served as Chief of Staff at the Iowa City VAMC and Associate Dean for Veterans Affairs of the Carver College of Medicine from 1997 to 2003. In 2003 he moved to Columbia, MO to lead the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri for 6 years and served as Associate Dean for Clinical Outcomes until he was recruited to Georgia Regents Health System in 2013. He served as President of the AHA, Heartland Affiliate and Governor for Iowa of the American College of Cardiology. He served as a Member of the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for four years and as a Senior Examiner in 2013 and 2014. As an academician, he has been active in research in the broad areas of coronary and pulmonary arterial and microvascular function in health and disease, exercise physiology in metabolic syndrome and education and patient safety. He serves on the Editorial Board for 3 Journals. He is the author of more than 120 papers, review articles and book chapters in the fields of basic research, clinical cardiology and patient safety. In November, 2013, Dr. Dellsperger joined GR Health and has the overall responsibility for the Medical Staff, Quality and Safety Programs. Since his arrival he worked to restructure the Quality programs in the Medical Center. In addition, his programmatic changes are emerging into a medical, clinical and support staff cultural transformation to implement reliable process and performance improvement throughout the organization.
