Built on the Caradigm Intelligence Platform, Acuere QOL delivers clinical and claims data to community health centers to enable analytics and population health management.
OCHIN, Inc. and Health Choice Network, Inc. (HCN), two of the nation’s largest health information networks, have launched Acuere QOL, a quality improvement, healthcare data aggregation, and data analytics solution designed to help community health centers (CHCs) and Primary Care Associations (PCAs) nationwide improve care and outcomes for underserved populations.
Acuere QOL is a scalable solution co-developed and hosted by OCHIN and HCN on the Caradigm™ Intelligence Platform (CIP). CIP aggregates and normalizes clinical, operational, and financial data from systems across the community—including electronic health records (EHRs), billing systems, payers, pharmacy systems, labs and HIEs—to enable rich healthcare analytics and population health applications.
Using Acuere QOL, CHCs and PCAs can leverage a national repository of clinical, dental, claims, financial, and administrative data—aggregated from OCHIN’s and HCN’s health information networks—to achieve a longitudinal patient record and to gain insight into populations and clinical performance with the goal of improving the efficiency and quality of care. The solution also enables CHCs and PCAs to identify, report on, and drive quality improvement initiatives using ACO, Meaningful Use, and Uniform Data Set (UDS) measures and to benchmark performance against national and state rankings.
“It’s critical to find ways to enable the healthcare clinics in every community—our country’s safety net—to participate in healthcare reform,” said OCHIN CEO Abby Sears. “Fundamental to this effort is delivering the right data to the right people at the right time to improve care, costs, and outcomes. By creating a nationwide repository of clinical and claims data—and making it easily available to our healthcare communities—we’re delivering on that promise.”
The Acuere QOL solution currently comprises clinical and claims data representing:
- Over 1.7 million unique patient visits
- Seven million patient visits
- 141 CHCs
- Up to seven years of historical data
As a cloud-based solution, Acuere QOL is designed to scale to accommodate network growth and evolution into additional population health applications.
“OCHIN and HCN have shown how partnership and health IT innovation can drive healthcare transformation,” said Michael Simpson, CEO of Caradigm. “We’re excited to be part of their effort, and we look forward to seeing the positive impact on care for underserved populations.”
