CareDiscovery^™ Quality Measures

A Best-in-Class Reporting Solution for All Your Quality Improvement Initiatives

Business issues: Healthcare providers face an increasingly challenging regulatory environment. Today, you must not only demonstrate your organization’s quality of care to the Joint Commission and CMS, but also to an array of transparency-driven pay-for-performance initiatives. In addition, these reporting requirements place a greater burden on your quality improvement resources. Given these challenges, the following questions merit careful consideration:

• Are we delivering timely, efficient, and error-free reporting?
• Is our organization prepared for reimbursement based on the quality of care we deliver?
• Are we concerned with how consumers will perceive the quality data we report?
• Are clinical improvement initiatives taxing our resources without clear benefit?

A reliable reporting solution
CareDiscovery Quality Measures is the best-in-class regulatory reporting solution from Thomson Healthcare, the nation’s leading core measures vendor. Drawing upon the combined expertise of Medstat and Solucient, Quality Measures helps you deliver efficient and reliable reporting, thereby ensuring your performance-based reimbursement and protecting your market share. With 99-percent on-time submission to Joint Commission and 98-percent acceptance by CMS, Quality Measures can save you both time and resources.

Moving quality forward
Quality Measures gives you a timely snapshot of performance on individual measures, down to the patient and physician level. It streamlines your team’s workflow by allowing you to customize your abstraction worklist according to measure set, discharge data, or completion status. Near Time uploads allow you to upload data at any time, and as often as necessary. And flexible abstraction pages ensure ease of use for both new and experienced abstractors. Quality Measures has detailed error-checking, which allows you to pinpoint and address quality-of-care issues and data collection problems before data are submitted. And with continuous access to results and benchmarking data, you can move quality forward by working proactively with your physicians and care teams.

Discover the advantages
The easy navigation and operability of Quality Measures will bring efficiency and accuracy to your regulatory reporting. Quality Measures offers direct editing of administrative fields, detailed error reports, near-term reporting with comprehensive benchmarks, and episode-level error reporting. In addition, it provides the following advantages:

• Weekly submission to CMS with integrated feedback
• Integration with leading P4P and quality programs such as the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines^SM
• Time-saving skip logic, and easy-to-use integrated measure sets for abstracting and reporting, which allow you to view all measures at one time
• Composite Measure Reporting, which reveals your hospital’s performance on all the measures within a given measure set
• Medicare provider number-specific sampling
• Enhanced reporting that shows which measure failed, why it failed, and what clinical unit was involved; and highly detailed audit- and corporate-level reporting
• Physician reporting, which allows you to create physician Core Measure report cards or comparison reports with masked physician IDs for easy distribution
• An easy-to-use interface with step-by-step instructions and online tutorials for building and interpreting reports and analyses

Unparalleled support. Unrivaled results.
With clinical outcomes receiving ever greater scrutiny, and with quality improvement personnel being stretched ever thinner, your team will appreciate the vibrant Online Community and dedicated support services of Thomson Healthcare. Your team will also appreciate the expertise of its core measures partner, whose roots date back to the JCAHO IMSystem, the forerunner to Core Measures. As with all Thomson Healthcare solutions, Quality Measures is backed by the following support services:

• Comprehensive online help for assistance in accessing and abstracting data, and in creating and interpreting reports and analyses
• Ready online access to the latest Joint Commission and CMS requirements, definitions, and standards
• Web-based training sessions, field- and telephone support, and a lively and dedicated Quality Measures Online Community

Product Brief (PDF) Case Study: Washington Regional Medical Center, Fayetteville, Ark. Leveraging Executive Support and a Strong Decision Support System to Improve Quality (PDF) Case Study: St. Tammany Parish Hospital, Covington, La., Utilizing Core Measures as a Compliance Solution and Performance Improvement Tool (PDF) Case Study: Bay Medical Center, Panama City, Fla., Center of Excellence Certification Yields Ongoing Rewards (PDF) Case Study: University Health System, San Antonio, TX Using Benchmarking to Provide Cardiac Care for the Underserved (PDF) Case Study: Scott & White, Temple, TX Core Measures Drive Change (PDF) Case Study: Provena Health, Mokena, Ill. Provena Health Reaches Ambitious Goals for Clinical Quality Improvement, Cost-Efficiency (PDF) Case Study: Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, D.C. Sibley Memorial Hospital Gains an Edge on Total Performance Improvement (PDF)

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For more information about CareDiscovery Quality Measures, e-mail th.providerinfo@thomson.com.