The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) has launched Pinnacle India Quality Improvement Programme (PIQIP) - a patient health care improvement and major initiative to provide proper and appropriate cardiovascular care in India.
The PIQIP will establish a network of hospitals and individual cardiologists that will help cardiovascular teams achieve practice success through quality measurement, performance improvement, and peer-to-peer learning. Foundational tools and services include: an interactive community that connects participants across the country to problem-solve, a hub that organizes ACC programmes for easy and logical member access, including cardiologists, patients, administrators, sponsors, and researchers, a cache for tools and services to help participants demonstrate quality; value; clinical and managerial effectiveness; and efficiency.
The PIQIP provides a centralized system to promote innovations and achieve clinical excellence. Participation offers many advantages, including: easy-to-interpret quarterly benchmark reports that validate the quality care participant’s provide and pinpoint opportunities for improvement, access to relevant data focusing on coronary artery disease, hypertension, heart failure, diabetes, rheumatic heart disease and atrial fibrillation—the six most common cardiovascular conditions, minimal data collection that delivers maximum clinical value, multiple methods of data submission that fit seamlessly into workflow.
“We are already piloting the programme at Ruby Hospital, Pune. Many other prominent hospitals such as Asian Heart Institute, Bombay Hospital, Hiranandani Hospital, KEM Hospital (Mumbai), KEM Hospital (Pune), Sevadham Trust Hospital (Pune), etc. have shown interest in participating in the program. In 2012, we are targeting only a select few hospitals,” Brendan Mullen, senior director, ACCF.
The software platform used in Patient Care Software System programme will also allow doctors to review their patient’s information at anytime from anywhere. In the future, modifications will be made to give access to patients to their own medical information, anytime from anywhere. Patients will no longer have to carry their files/papers to doctor’s office. Slowly, a hospital can aspire to become paperless using the PIQIP. Additional custom reports could also be used by hospital administrators to understand care delivery in their hospitals.
This will allow PIQIP to welcome participation from remotest areas of India, thus, helping to provide standard CV patient care based on guidelines and protocols to ALL patients in India. No matter if they reside in big cities like Mumbai or not so well developed places like Dulhapur in Uttar Pradesh.