Tracking metrics that matter for scaling up employment outcomes

BACKGROUND: Supporting employment consultants in their work with job seekers is critical for increasing the employment outcomes of people with disabilities. OBJECTIVE: To better understand how to leverage data for supporting employment consultants, including what metrics to track, what to do with the data, and what can be improved. METHODS: A panel of three directors of employment programs addressed these questions as part of the Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE) 2020 conference. RESULTS: Most employment service providers collect data for billing and compliance reporting. Innovative providers leverage data for quality improvement. CONCLUSIONS: Tracking metrics designed specifically for monitoring the implementation of effective employment supports is key for leveraging data for continuous quality improvement and thus improving job seekers’ employment outcomes.

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Rethinking Management Information Systems for Scaling up Employment Outcomes

Journal of Disability Policy Studies ◽

10.1177/10442073211043518 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 104420732110435

Author(s):

Alberto Migliore ◽

John Butterworth ◽

Kelly Nye-Lengerman

Keyword(s):

Information Systems ◽

Management Information Systems ◽

Scale Up ◽

Scaling Up ◽

Employment Outcomes ◽

State Funding ◽

Job Seekers ◽

Management Information ◽

Continuous Quality ◽

Effectiveness And Efficiency

People with intellectual disability, autism, and other developmental disabilities have successfully demonstrated their ability to work in the general labor market. Yet, their employment rate remains substantially lower compared with the general population without disabilities. Scaling up the employment outcomes of this population requires improving the effectiveness and efficiency of employment support systems. To this end, this article recommends supporting employment providers rethink how they use their management information systems (MIS): from primary tools that automate billing and compliance, to tools that track metrics for continuous quality improvement. As federal and state funding policies are the main factors shaping how MIS are currently used, this article recommends that federal and state policy guidelines be issued that enable employment providers to leverage their MIS to improve effectiveness and efficiency, and thus scale up employment outcomes of job seekers.

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Pelaksanaan Continuous Quality Improvement(CQI) dalam Kalangan Pensyarah di Kolej Kemahiran Tinggi Mar

Online Journal for TVET Practitioners ◽

10.30880/ojtp.2020.05.02.007 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Lyssa Daud ◽

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Faizal Amin Nur Yunus ◽

Mohd Bekri Rahim ◽

Mohd. Zulfadli Rozali ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Improvement ◽

Continuous Quality Improvement ◽

Continuous Quality

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“Support”: A project for continuous quality improvement of palliative therapy for cancer pain patients

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management ◽

10.1016/s0885-3924(98)80059-6 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. S18

Author(s):

F Ensink

Keyword(s):

Quality Improvement ◽

Cancer Pain ◽

Continuous Quality Improvement ◽

Palliative Therapy ◽

Continuous Quality ◽

Pain Patients

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Implementing Continuous Quality Improvement in an Integrated Community Urology Practice: Lessons Learned

Urology ◽

10.1016/j.urology.2020.11.068 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Franklin Gaylis ◽

Ryan Nasseri ◽

Amirali Salmasi ◽

Christopher Anderson ◽

Sarah Mohedin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Improvement ◽

Continuous Quality Improvement ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Continuous Quality

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Setting the standard for healthy eating: Continuous quality improvement for health promotion at Nova Scotia Health

Healthcare Management Forum ◽

10.1177/0840470420967705 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (1) ◽

pp. 49-55

Author(s):

Laura J. Kennedy ◽

Nathan G. A. Taylor ◽

Taylor Nicholson ◽

Emily Jago ◽

Brenda L. MacDonald ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Quality Improvement ◽

Nova Scotia ◽

Healthy Eating ◽

Continuous Quality Improvement ◽

Healthcare Organizations ◽

Quality Improvement Process ◽

Continuous Quality ◽

The Status ◽

Collaborative Efforts

Healthcare organizations engage in continuous quality improvement to improve performance and value-for-performance, but the pathway to change is often rooted in challenging the way things are “normally” done. In an effort to propel system-wide change to support healthy eating, Nova Scotia Health developed and implemented a healthy eating policy as a benchmark to create a food environment supportive of health. This article describes the healthy eating policy and its role as a benchmark in the quality improvement process. The policy, rooted in health promotion, sets a standard for healthy eating and applies to stakeholders both inside and outside of health. We explain how the policy offers nutrition but also cultural benchmarks around healthy eating, bringing practitioners throughout Nova Scotia Health together and sustaining collaborative efforts to improve upon the status quo.

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CQI: Meeting the Mandate for Quality

Otolaryngology ◽

10.1016/s0194-5998(05)80278-5 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 112 (5) ◽

pp. P111-P111

Author(s):

Carl A. Patow

Keyword(s):

Quality Improvement ◽

Patient Satisfaction ◽

Quality Of Care ◽

Continuous Quality Improvement ◽

Educational Objectives ◽

Continuous Quality

Educational objectives: To understand the principles of continuous quality improvement and to use these principles to enhance patient satisfaction through increased efficiency and improved quality of care.

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