Apervita and Mayo Clinic, today announced a partnership to create the first self-service marketplace for health measures that will serve as a one-stop-shop to author, publish, and apply measures, allowing users to connect their data to open standard measure definitions. The new capability automatically transforms measure definitions into computable analytics and is being developed with Mayo Clinic contributing its expertise in medical care, know how, and technology.
Today, there are already thousands of health measures for quality, safety, outcomes, and finance, with many more to come. These are increasingly the basis for measurement of performance and reimbursement for value-based care. Unfortunately, they are notoriously complex and organizations struggle with the costly process of implementing and maintaining them. This often results in delays of more than 12 months to report new measures or update existing measures.
With this new approach, Apervita will offer a family of open interfaces, including open web service APIs, allowing standard measure definitions to be imported, edited, published, executed and exported. Once an author has developed a measure, it can be easily connected to different data sets as well as shared through a global marketplace. Measure results can be displayed on the Apervita platform or accessed through APIs for display within EMRs, third-party systems and mobile applications. The import and export of measures supports the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Data Model (QDM) through which all modern measures are today made available.
“There is already an abundance of health measures that support national, state and local objectives, but creating and deploying them can be a daunting task for any health enterprise. With this new capability, Apervita will serve as a platform for standard health measures, facilitating the distribution and execution of expertly developed and conveniently packaged measure sets,” said Paul Magelli, CEO of Apervita. “Apervita subscribers can conveniently browse measures and build their own measure sets, implementing them across their entire organization to monitor and improve performance. No more costly hours spent designing and coding health measures based on individual interpretations of a published standard. For the first time, the entire organization can concentrate on delivering performance excellence, while the development of standard measures are left to subject matter experts.”
Disclosure: Mayo Clinic and Dr. Jyotishman Pathak have a financial interest in the technology referenced.
