This past week I was at the 2016 International MUSE conference in Orlando Florida.
This year I was selected to present at three sessions, one Tuesday training workshop and two Thursday education sessions.
Acmeware was out in full force this year sponsoring the Executive Institute and presenting a total of 2 workshops and four education sessions.
I presented on a Tuesday training workshop titled the Alphabet Soup that is Clinical Quality Measure Reporting Initiatives. This was the second year we presented this topic and with all the changing requirement with CQMs, this should be a standard at MUSE over the next couple years.
I presented with Glen D'Abate, president of Acmeware, and Karen Arel, clinical informatics at a2z HIT, on a Thursday education sessions titled How to Successfully Submit eCQMs Electronically. We covered CQM measure selection, measures validation, nomenclature mapping and reporting once. Jodi Frei, Northwestern Medical Center in Vermont, and I co-presented on a Thursday workshop titled In a Galaxy NOT So Far, Far Away…eCQMs. We shared with everyone strategies Northwestern implemented for preparing for eCQMs. The education sessions were well attended and we received a lot of great feedback on the content. I would like to say thank you to Glen, Karen and Jodi for a great job with the presentations and help with the contact development.
On a side note, Jodi and I have been asked to present at MEDTIECH's 2016 Nursing and Home Care forum in Foxborough, MA from June 15-17 and at MEDTIECH's 2016 Physician and CIO Forum in Foxborough, MA from October 20-21. Looking forward to seeing everyone there.
Getting back to the conference, there wasn't a major theme this year like in the past with Meaningful Use and Interoperability. Organization are starting to wind down from Meaningful Use and get back to the core parts of their business with revenue cycle, patient care and infrastructure maintenance.
Clinical quality payment reporting was still a big topic of discussion. Organization are trying to figure out how to prepare for eCQM reporting. I noticed a number of organizations still unclear how to manage value sets and nomenclature mapping. Acmeware is well positioned to educate and help organization with nomenclature mapping.
Looking back on last year's conference, there was a lot of excitement around MEDITECH's product roadmap. Last year MEDITECH’s Executive Vice President Hoda Sayed-Friel introduced MEDITECH as a platform (MaaP), native iPhone and Android support, managed applications from the App Store, and human genome genetic integration.
This year Hoda followed up with a great presentation on how their vision and strategy come together with product screenshots. Some of the themes from the product presentation.
Web:
The Web Acute and Web Ambulatory have a very nice user experience. The products are web-based, fully-integrated so as patients transition from ambulatory to acute there is a consistent look and feel with one user interface. This is an import feature because there are some many clinicians moving around providing coverage in different areas of the hospital, having a consistent user interface is important.
Mobile:
MEDITECH iPhone and Android apps will be available soon in the App Store and Google Play. Hospitals will be able to use smartphones and smart devices for servicing patient at the bedside. Clinicians will be able to draw blood with smart device and perform bedside medication verification and administrator medications. MEDITECH will be introducing various apps and devices to perform an overhaul in nursing.
Genetic Testing:
As I mentioned last year, MEDITECH is collaborating with genomic laboratories to integrate pharmacogenetics test results into clinical workflow to improve treatment, outcomes, disease management, wellness, patient safety and so much more. This year, Hoda presented screenshot with genetic testing integration with examples of patients that would trigger alerts based on genetics tests.
Surveillance:
A new risk and surveillance product for flexible alerting based on key indicators. The surveillance and registry engine contain standard, pre-defined algorithms for alerting clinicians and patients running against catalogs to generate patient surveys for care communication.
Patient Engagement:
Patient engagement will be the new focus for MEDITECH. They demo'd some consumer facing products for continuous monitoring for preventive care. Patients have the ability to schedule video appointments that integrate directly into MEDITECH with video conferencing features so clinicians can perform virtual visits.
Business and Clinical Analytics:
MEDITECH will be bundling in BCA hundreds of standard reports that will eliminate the need for organizations to perform SQL programming and focus on patients. BCA will include home health monitoring integration with standard reports.
Historical Report Conversion:
In the past, MEDITECH did not provide complete conversion when migrating from MAGIC/CS/6.0 to 6.1. MEDTIECH will now be bundled conversion services into the base price. Hoda mentioned organizations will no longer need to provide historical backups for viewing archive report, MEDITECH will migrate content for all new installs.
There are significant opportunities in 2016: adding value to BCA Reporting with reporting integration services; historical reporting conversions with archive reporting; home health reporting and integration with Web Acute and Ambulatory; and upgrades to 6.1, Web Acute and Web Ambulatory.
Overall, I left MUSE this year with feeling excited and optimistic. Acmeware is well positioned to leverage our OneView reporting platform for hospital and provider reporting as CMS quality payment reporting programs align.
