QISA: “Shaping quality together”
30.11.2012 11:17
How can doctors work together even better to achieve a higher quality of care and how can they and their patients benefit from this? How can this quality be made transparent in outpatient care? These and similar questions were discussed by visitors to the conference “QISA – Quality Transparency in Practice Networks” on Wednesday, to which the Agency of German Medical Networks (ADA), the AQUA Institute and the AOK Federal Association invited people to Berlin.
In order to support doctors here and because it believes in the value of quality work for the patients concerned, the AOK has invested in the development of quality indicators for the outpatient sector. On behalf of the AOK, the AQUA Institute developed 13 volumes under the title QISA, which include a total of around 130 systematically structured quality indicators. AQUA managing director Professor Joachim Szecsenyi presented two new volumes at the conference: “Coronary heart disease (CHD)” and “Heart failure”, which are now available. Another volume, “Depression,” was announced for January early 2013. “With the quality indicators, we provide doctors with a toolbox for quality promotion. From this you can select the indicators that are best suited to your regional requirements. As a result, doctors can clearly demonstrate the quality of their work,” says Szecsenyi.
With the health network QuE Nuremberg, Solimed - Unternehmens Gesundheit, the Gesundes Kinzigtal and the doctor network South Brandenburg, four large doctor networks presented their quality work at the conference, which ranges from work in quality circles, the development of treatment paths to external quality representation in quality reports. “The optimization of quality of care and its transparent presentation in networks will be of crucial importance for our patients and for the development of cooperative structures as such in the future,” says Dr. Veit Wambach, Chairman of the Agency of German Medical Networks and QuE eG. Wambach described the quality indicators as crucial to the success of a doctor network. Based on the previous indicators, the Nuremberg network, for example, could demonstrate that it achieves better results for patients in these areas compared to the average for standard care in Bavaria. There is still a rocky road to real quality competition, but “quality competition will have priority in the future”.
Info: QISA