A Banner Day for Acmeware and the OneView Quality Product

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.

I look forward to seeing what happens as organizations transition from chart-abstraction reporting to electronic clinical quality measures reporting and submission.