This is a
special time in Healthcare and at Acmeware. As Vice President for Acmeware I
serve many roles including product development. I’m responsible for the
architecture and operations of our software products, ensuring scalability,
affordability and reliability.
This past
year was a strategic year for Acmeware and OneView product development. We
embarked on a series of strategic initiatives that will offer organizations an
opportunity to consolidate quality reporting and reduce costs, allowing
organizations to use OneView as a single unified solution for Hospital Quality
and Physician Quality reporting - all aspects of clinical quality reporting. This
strategy highlights our commitment to providing a single reporting platform
that organizations can leverage for all CMS quality reporting programs, helping
reduce reporting burden and improve on quality, outcomes and wellness.
CMS is moving
rapidly to unify and align its quality reporting programs around electronic clinical
quality measures (eCQM) and plans to use this data for performance based
reimbursement and public reporting. In addition, The Joint Commission (TJC) has
closely align its quality reporting requirement with CMS and is providing hospitals
with greater flexibility in meeting their ORYX performance measure requirements
with electronic clinical quality measures reporting.
The role for
Acmeware is to be recognized as the leader in MEDITECH Data Repository
reporting including clinical quality measure reporting. Acmeware has taken some
important strategic actions with OneView product development to achieve this
role.
In order to
implement this product line development strategy we focused on 3 things.
The first has
been major increases in research and development to accelerate the
implementation of the new product line development. We have developed an
amazing new software architecture that runs 100 times faster and is easier to
maintain.
The second,
develop a comprehensive business strategy with marketing and content
distribution. We are doing incredible things with online search and social media.
The third,
hire staff who are MEDITECH content experts for clinical quality reporting and
value set mapping. We are adding to our team specialist that are experts in
Clinical Informatics, Nursing Informatics and Quality Reporting who can help us
to become leaders in the MEDITECH market space. None of this would be possible
without the OneView development team, working on this amazing architecture and
producing incredible product code.
We are
focusing the OneView product around three (3) Packages; Hospital Quality,
Physician Quality and Custom Reporting. The OneView development team has
developed an incredible new software architecture in OneView that everyone will be
able to utilize for reporting.
The Hospital
Quality Package focuses product development and support on the following CMS
programs: Meaningful Use, Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR), Joint Commission
(ORYX), Readmissions Reduction, Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC), Outpatient
Quality Reporting (OQR), ACO, Value-Based Purchasing (HVBP) Program, Mortality
Reporting, Surgical site infections (SSI) and Patient Safety Indicators (PSI).
The Physician
Quality Package focuses product development and support on the following CMS
programs: Meaningful Use, Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), PQRS Acute
care, PQRS Ambulatory, ACO and Value-Based Modifier (VBM).
Acmeware
continues to lead the way in clinical quality measure reporting. Our OneView
Hospital Quality package supports all 29 Inpatient clinical quality measures. We recently earned ONC-HIT
Certification from Drummond Group certifying all 64 Ambulatory clinical quality
measures in our
OneView Physician Quality package. This accomplishment demonstrates our long
term commitment to quality reporting and why healthcare organizations are
partnering with Acmeware to improve care quality and outcomes by using OneView as a single integrated quality reporting platform.
