SOURCE: Technology Medical Partners
TMP Helps Improve the Quality of Care at an Ohio Hospital by Automating Clinical Core Measures Data Collection and Reducing Reporting Efforts for Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services
CINCINNATI, OH–(Marketwire – August 12, 2010) – Technology Medical Partners (TMP), a healthcare information technology solutions and services provider, today announced that Holzer Medical Center, an Ohio-based hospital, has implemented TMP’s Clinical Quality Manager (CQM) solution to improve patient care and reporting of quality of care core measurements. The CQM platform will help Holzer focus on improving patient outcomes by automating quality data collection, analytics and reducing processing time for reports required by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS). Holzer serves the communities of southeastern Ohio, western West Virginia and northeastern Kentucky.
TMP’s CQM solution provides Holzer the ability to abstract quality of care data from any system; provide reports and dashboards to anyone; and support analytics and quality improvement anywhere; functions that are not provided by most electronic health records (EHR) systems at this depth or completeness. TMP’s CQM solution is built on the Microsoft SharePoint portal platform and abstracts patient data and other information from across Holzer’s disparate departments and systems, including its EHR systems. Holzer’s staff and medical professionals will no longer take months to manually complete all of the required CMS reports. Because the data is automatically captured, populated and formatted in report forms, CQM’s automated reporting process will reduce the processing time by months.
“The system is impressive and I cannot wait to have more real-time data on my desktop regarding quality measures,” stated Jim Phillippe, CEO and President of Holzer Medical Center. “Focusing on core measures is key to improving quality scores, and I am also glad to see how this system relates to the reporting of the Meaningful Use of our EHR system.”
“The CMS quality reporting process continues to become more complex, and having a system that will streamline data collection and report completion will allow us to use the data in real time to improve our patient care and focus on quality outcomes,” said April McLain, Quality Director for Holzer Health System. “By improving reporting efficiency, our management, doctors and nurses will have convenient access to real-time quality data on their desktops via dashboards. This will allow for analysis of the core measure data months in advance of the current process. With faster, more accurate CMS reporting, we can improve processes and outcomes, and we will be eligible for additional government funds based on Pay for Performance. We plan to use this real time data to analyze and improve our readmission rates.”
From CQM’s dashboards, Holzer’s staff can aggregate and abstract patient information that can be used to track patients’ treatments, programs and outcomes. The aggregated information from across the health system will also help administrators to follow and report on Hospital Acquired Conditions (HACS), Readmission Rates by DRG, Patient Satisfaction, evidence-based medicine processes, and automate forms, documents, schedules and other staff functions. Additional applications are planned.
“For Holzer and other healthcare providers, having access to the right data at the right time (real-time quality data) is critical to ensuring that patients receive better care and outcomes in the long run,” said Jim Dixon, managing partner at TMP. “As our tag line says, ‘Quality Data Improves Outcomes.’ Our CQM system provides medical professionals with the real-time information and efficiencies they need to focus on patient outcomes while providing hospitals with a means to improve its tracking and reporting processes to improve compliance, profitability and competitiveness. We appreciate the trust Holzer has put in our solutions and look forward to helping them continue to make their patients the center of all they do.”
About Holzer Health Systems
Since 1909, the name Holzer has been synonymous with wellness in the community. Today, Holzer Health Systems offers a wide and comprehensive range of services, including the most advanced healthcare, diagnostics, and treatments available. Headquartered in Gallipolis, Ohio, Holzer serves the needs of patients in southeastern Ohio, western West Virginia and northeastern Kentucky. For more information, visit www.holzer.org.
About Technology Medical Partners
TMP’s Clinical Quality Manager vastly improves the Quality of Care, data abstraction and administrative processes related to reporting quality core measures to anyone. Founded in 2004, TMP is a Microsoft Certified ISV and is focused on Healthcare Quality Improvement with Composite Software Solutions based on SharePoint and other Microsoft products. TMP delivers value-added information technology solutions and services to the Healthcare Industry. We focus on the business improvement of healthcare providers (Hospitals, Clinics and Physician Practices). TMP brings a comprehensive array of software solutions, platform products and implementation services together with experience and leadership in Healthcare Solutions delivery. For more information, please visit www.t-m-partners.net
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