Why We Endorse:

Quality Reporting and Management Solution from Medisolv

Why We Endorse

The ChallengeAs health systems transition from volume to value and grow their physician base, they face greater accountability for managing both their hospitals’ and physicians’ performance.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Value-based Payment Modifier (VBPM) and similar programs for hospitals linking payments to quality provide strong incentives for eligible providers and hospitals to demonstrate high performance by satisfactorily reporting on a large number of specific quality measures increasingly mandated as electronic quality measures (eCQMs).

After a thorough review of solutions designed to address quality reporting and management, the American Hospital Association (AHA) has awarded its exclusive endorsement to the Quality Reporting and Management Solution from Medisolv.

The SolutionMedisolv’s Quality Reporting and Management Solution helps hospitals and physicians efficiently measure and report quality data to meet evolving requirements, improve performance and patient safety, and deliver value-based care.

From one integrated platform, hospitals and physicians can now manage performance improvement and report accurate quality measures data. Medisolv’s ENCOR software suite integrates with all forms of electronic health record and other information systems to convert large volumes of existing clinical, operational and financial data into actionable information.

ENCOR allows daily abstraction of core measures; simplifies management and reporting of Meaningful Use and electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs); displays daily updates on key hospital claims measures; allows eligible providers to easily capture and report eCQM data; and provides data dashboards so hospitals and providers can monitor performance and take corrective action.

Beyond software, Medisolv’s solution offers the services of quality, analytics, clinicians and software experts to advise providers and practices in performance improvement strategies and guide hospitals during the solution’s highly organized implementation process.

A number of factors led the AHA to award its endorsement to Medisolv’s Quality Reporting and Management Solution.

Medisolv’s solution is distinguished by its:

• Comprehensive scope, which includes support for all three types of quality measures (abstraction, claims and eCQMs), and for ambulatory, outpatient and inpatient quality programs

• Excellence, as demonstrated by its recognition by health care technology research firm KLAS, including its rating as best in improving performance

• Implementation success — as confirmed by its 95 percent client retention rate — in more than 300 hospitals and several hundred physicians

What Hospitals Say

“We used Medisolv ENCOR quality reporting solution to successfully report core measures electronically without any abstraction. This is another example of our commitment to leverage health IT for improving quality of care for our patients. Our substantial investments in an EHR and clinical workflow optimization were crucial in the production of high quality data that made submission possible.”

DR. DANIELLE SCHEURERChief Quality OfficerMedical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, S.C.

“For a facility our size, the burden of gathering all this data was overwhelming. Now, we have quick access to obtain the data for each of our providers, and management … and that is quality performance improvement. With Medisolv, we can quickly align quality measures for Meaningful Use, Patient Centered Medical Home and PQRS.”

NICKY OLIVIERIT Applications ManagerPella Regional Health, Pella, Iowa

“It’s a pretty tall order to have excellent quality and exceptional patient experience at a low cost, and

it’s getting harder and harder to do that. We’re fortunate to have Medisolv, which provides a single platform within our health system focused on pay-for-performance measures, with data for us to look at that’s refreshed every day.”

KATHLEEN REILLYDirector of Quality and Performance ImprovementFinger Lakes Health System, Geneva, N.Y.

“We are better able to manage the quality measure and reporting processes, and better utilize our data.”

ED RICKSCIO & VPBeaufort Memorial Hospital, Beaufort, S.C.

From one integrated platform, hospitals and physicians can now manage performance improvement and report accurate quality measures data. Medisolv’s software suite converts large volumes of existing clinical, operational and financial data into actionable information.

About the AHA EndorsementThe AHA Endorsement is the result of an extensive and rigorous process that begins with the identification of hospitals’ most significant market challenges and ends with the selection of the solution that best addresses them.

AHA SIGNATURE DUE DILIGENCE PROCESS™ The process begins when AHA Solutions issues a request for information open to all players in the field to submit their solution for consideration. AHA Solutions reviews all submissions to narrow the field to the top candidates for AHA Endorsement consideration.

Finalist criteria are stringent and based on a number of factors:

• The quality of the solution and its effectiveness in addressing the identified challenge

• Financial stability and long-term viability of the company

• References

After in-person presentations, extensive reference checks and a thorough review, AHA Solutions awards the Endorsement, typically for a one- to three-year term.

The AHA then works with the organization to educate member hospitals on the challenge at hand, and how the Endorsed solution can effectively address it. At the same time AHA Solutions promotes AHA Endorsed solutions to hospitals, it also works with the solutions’ vendors to help them understand, and better address, hospital challenges. The organization works to bring vendors and hospitals together to overcome obstacles and deliver better, more efficient, higher quality care.

When hospitals select a product or service that has earned the AHA Endorsement, they can be confident it has met the AHA’s highest standards.

About AHA SolutionsAHA Solutions is a division of Health Forum, the strategic business enterprise of the American Hospital Association (AHA) dedicated to serving member hospitals by helping them identify the optimal solutions to their most pressing market challenges. Through the AHA Endorsement, along with educational programs featuring peers and industry experts, AHA Solutions supports the decision-making process for hospitals looking for partners to help with clinical integration, information technology, talent management, cultural transformation, financial sustainability, the patient flow and other key challenges.

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IDENTIFY HOSPITALS’ MOST PRESSING

OPERATIONAL ISSUES• Obtain input from hospital

executives, policy makers, AHA advisory committees

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AWARD ENDORSEMENT

CONDUCT A FULL MARKET SCAN

• Establish selection criteria• Issue Request for

Information to the market• Review, score submitted RFIs

REVIEW LEAD CANDIDATES • Leading organizations

present capabilities

• Align on AHA mission and vendor expectations

• Assess, rate, request referrals

SELECT FINALISTS • Conduct Visioning Session

on potential partnership

• Verify references

The American Hospital Association (AHA) Endorsement Seal is the exclusive property of the AHA. AHA Solutions, a division of Health Forum, the strategic business enterprise of the AHA, is compensated for the use of the AHA marks and for its assistance in marketing endorsed products and services. By agreement, pricing of endorsed products and services may not be increased by the providers to reflect fees paid to the AHA.

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