DDCQI or Data Driven Continuous Quality Improvement is a structured organizational process for involving personnel in planning and executing a continuous flow of improvements to provide quality health care that meets or exceeds expectations based on and informed by near real-time data to measure changes in quality benchmarks.
Executing a continuous flow of improvements is accomplished by building on small incremental successes over time rather than with sweeping and dramatic "breakthroughs." In other words, break down potential improvements into small projects and test them before actually implementation to ensure that the improvement doesn't cause issues in another part of your organization. If the test can not be completed in a week then the project is still to large.
The main purpose is to help your organization be ready for not only Meaningful Use, but for Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH), Accountable Care Organization (ACO), and any other federal and/or state community health center quality initiative.
You can find more information in the training slides in the files below.
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 5