Telligen to serve as QIN-QIO in Oklahoma; launches QI Connect

Posted on: 2/14/20

Telligen is Oklahoma’s new Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO). Telligen has served as a QIN-QIO for more than 45 years and is a recognized leader in quality improvement and advancing population health at the local, state and federal levels. In November 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a five-year contract to Telligen to serve as the QIO-QIN for Colorado, Illinois, Iowa and Oklahoma. The QIN-QIO program helps CMS implement key elements of the National Quality Strategy and federal health care reform efforts.

To achieve hospital and national quality goals, Telligen QIN-QIO has created Telligen QI Connect™, a large-scale improvement effort using the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Breakthrough Series method to achieve rapid results by the spread and adaptation of existing knowledge to multiple settings to accomplish a common aim. Telligen works in partnership with hospitals, patients and providers across organizations and care settings. Telligen would like to partner with you - at no cost to your hospital.

Joining Telligen QI ConnectTM is easy and takes only a few minutes. Click here to join or view the Fact Sheet to find out more. Enter your contact information and choose to work on one or more affinity groups that are closely aligned with hospital QI goals including Opioid Harm, Patient Safety, Care Coordination, and Chronic Disease Self-Management.

Many ACOs, HIINs and large health care systems are encouraging their hospitals and preferred nursing homes to join because they see the value in this interactive collaboration and alignment with financial, quality improvement, and satisfaction goals. Telligen has successfully worked with hospitals, ACOs, and nursing homes to improve coordination of care, improve nursing home star ratings, meet CPC+ goals, and share pain management strategies to decrease prescribing of opioids, just to name a few examples. Telligen brings hospitals, providers and stakeholders together to tackle challenging issues as community problems, including Clostridium difficile, readmissions, avoidable ED visits and many others. Participation is open to hospital quality improvement leaders, case managers, and others interested in improving the health and health care of Oklahoma.

If you have not done so, we encourage you to join Telligen QI ConnectTM at the link above so you will have access to valuable tools and resources, along with the exchange of ideas and solutions with peers who have similar challenges. (LaWanna Halstead)