It was a banner day
for Acmeware and the OneView Hospital Quality and Physician Quality product.
I’m excited to
announce that we have successfully completed our first submission of Electronic
Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) Sets to The Joint Commission ORYX® Performance Measure program for Cortland Regional Medical Center.
We successfully submitted eED-1 and eED-1 in QRDA Category 1 format to The
Joint Commission. Acmeware has been an active participant in The Joint
Commission ORYX® Performance Measure
program since we became an approved vendor by The Joint Commission last year.
My team has expert
knowledge of electronica clinical quality measures and of the MEDTIECH EHR
software. We have leverage the MEDITECH Data Repository to build an
architecture that is highly scalability and reliability for utilizing both
MEDTIECH and third party data for clinical quality measure reporting. As an
exclusive MEDITECH reporting provider for hospitals and physicians, we are one
of only a couple vendors who provide end to end software for clinical quality
reporting with a unique data adapter that sites on top of the MEDITECH Data
Repository (DR). We have a great relationship with the MEDITECH DR staff which
I believe allows us to create an amazing experience for our OneView clients.
Trust is the most
important factor in determining an ORYX vendor partnership. MEDITECH Hospitals
must place a significant amount of responsibility on the ORYX vendor and
product. ORYX vendors are required to submit hospital measure data to The Joint
Commission. If the ORYX vendor fails to
submit data, they put the hospital at risk of failing to meet The Joint
Commission Accreditation requirements, placing the hospitals accreditation
status at risk.
As an ORYX vendor,
Acmeware is expected to perform extensive data quality validation testing and
address issues as part of the quarterly ORXY submission requirements. We are
required to adhere to strict compliance criteria with the eCQM data to
guarantee the QRDA Category 1 files (Hospital Clinical Data) accurately match
what hospitals like Cortland Regional Medical Centers MEDITECH electronic
health record is capturing. Further validation requires aggregate electronic
population (ePop) files to be reported
from OneView to The Joint Commission in order to confirm the Hospital Clinical
Data being reported is accurate. We perform intensive integrity checking prior
to The Joint Commission submission to guarantee the accuracy of the population
details and totals.
Acmeware continues
to lead the way in clinical quality measure reporting and remains committed to
working with The Joint Commission as they move toward alignment with the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and support accredited
organizations in their efforts to meet eCQM reporting requirements.
As I highlighted in
my 2015 year in review titled A Strategic
Year for Acmeware and OneView Product Development, 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.
