Outcomes management is evolving to include a number of areas that impact the quality of patient care. It focuses on using outcome measures to manage quality. This trend toward outcome management is driven by economics and, to a lesser extent, by the curiosity of providers and researchers. In this paper the concept of outcomes management is presented, along with the objectives, the methods for implementation, and its relationship to quality improvement.

Healthcare outcomes management and quality improvement course highlight procedures of healthcare assessment, which seek to analyse healthcare interventions available to healthcare consumers in terms of four principal dimensions: effectiveness, efficiency, humanity, and equity.

In this comprehensive course, Cautious attention to the fundamental principles of epidemiology, healthcare economics, medical ethics, population medicine, medical informatics and environmental health have also been included,  to increase the delegates’ appreciation for the applied medical sciences and their applications to the delivery of healthcare services at the point of care.