Apervita, has launched industry’s first cloud-based digital quality measurement platform, “Quality Measurement-as-a-Service offering.”
QMaaS offers a secure and scalable multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform to deliver consistent, near real-time provider quality measurement to third-party applications, data visualization tools, client data warehouses, and clinical workflow systems to inform quality improvement efforts.It enables healthcare organizations to specify, develop, test, and execute electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), as well as to create and distribute applications that use them, in the cloud.
“What we’ve accomplished during the last two years with the Direct Data Submission Platform has delivered ongoing value to our accredited hospitals,” said David W. Baker, MD, MPH, FACP, executive vice president for the Division of Health Care Quality Evaluation at The Joint Commission.
QMaaS eliminates this costly and often manual process by taking on measure management, calculation, maintenance, validation, and results delivery. This enables payers and providers to reallocate expert resources to more mission-critical initiatives and value-creating activities.
“Maintaining and managing quality measures is time-consuming and expensive, but required,” said current Lumina Health Partners Principal and former Chief Data Officer at Ascension, Rick Howard. “Being able to hand this off to Apervita saves organizations this frustration. Better yet, it eliminates the need for building costly in-house solutions. QMaaS empowers organizations to take action on quality improvement initiatives and focus staff on delivering the highest quality care, instead of trying to simply measure it well after the fact.”
Apervita’s platform enables the sharing of measure assets inter and intra-organization so that key stakeholders can reutilize their work for other purposes. Additionally, Apervita’s CQL engine produces automated insights that can be securely shared with providers across the continuum of care to help close and even prevent gaps in care. Apervita is also a CMS Qualified Registry and can support any organization with its quality submission.
“CMS and NCQA have made it clear – digital measures are happening,” said Kevin Hutchinson, Apervita CEO. “Apervita is proud to pave the way for industry stakeholders to take advantage of the many benefits of digital quality measurement enabling performance optimization. Guaranteeing accuracy of the measure specification is revolutionary as it provides payers, providers and vendors with peace of mind that they will no longer have to worry about whether or not they implemented a measure correctly.”
QMaaS supplements the well-regarded Apervita technology lineup, which includes a platform for payers and providers to jointly manage value-based contracts in their networks, and its interoperability and data-sharing services, which enable seamless, secure sharing of health records between health plans, providers and their members and patients.
