Medisolv Blog on Healthcare Quality Reporting and Analytics for Hospitals and Physicians

The State of Inpatient Quality Reporting: 2022 Survey Results & Recommendations

What’s the number one thing that keeps today’s hospital quality leaders up at night? It’s time. Or, more specifically, it’s not having enough time to effectively manage the mounting requirements...

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Medisolv Launches Equitable Care Module to Address Hospital’s Health Equity Requirements

Columbia, MD, November 10, 2022 — Medisolv announced the launch of a new Equitable Care Module within their ENCOR for Electronic Measures solution. This module will help hospitals meet new regulatory...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

2023 CMS vs. TJC Measure List Comparison

Generally, The Joint Commission (TJC) tries to align their measure lists with the CMS programs, but over the course of the last few years things have diverged.

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

[E-BOOK] 2023 Hospital IQR Program Requirements

Each year the CMS Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program makes changes; sometimes slight and sometimes more drastic. In 2023 CMS is ramping up eCQM requirements, increasing performance visibility,...

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Trinexus Partners with Medisolv to Improve Quality Management Across Puerto Rico and Caribbean Markets

San Juan, PR, October 19, 2022 — Trinexus, a healthcare information technology consulting firm based in Puerto Rico, also servicing the Caribbean and Latin America market, today announced its...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

The State of Maryland Collaborates with CRISP and Medisolv to Become the First State in the Country to Accept Electronic Clinical Quality Measure Data from Hospitals

Columbia, MD, June 7, 2022 — The State of Maryland has partnered with CRISP, Maryland’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), and Medisolv, a leader in quality management software, to...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

The Basics of Care Compare and Leapfrog Safety Grades: Measures, Timeframes and Preview Periods

I set off on a journey to create an article that helps quality leaders understand the CMS Care Compare website and its connection to other public reputation websites like Leapfrog. It turns out...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

Should Your Hospital Track Retired Measures?

Just because an electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) exists today doesn’t mean it will tomorrow. In the 9 years since CMS first piloted eCQMs, nearly a dozen measures have been retired. What’s...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

Become a “Birthing-Friendly” Facility: The First CMS Maternal Quality Designation

CMS has proposed the first-ever hospital quality designation that specifically focuses on maternal health. If finalized, any hospital positively attesting to the new Maternal Morbidity structural...

Regulatory Updates: Ambulatory

A Guide to Promoting Interoperability for Hospitals & Clinicians

CMS’s Promoting Interoperability requirements vary depending on if you’re a hospital or ambulatory practice. Find out which requirements matter to you—and which ones you can happily ignore.

Industry Trends

If It Wasn’t Measured, Was It Managed? Quality Performance in the Age of COVID

During the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, CMS suspended in part quality measure reporting responsibilities. We wanted to know how the pandemic affected healthcare quality performance...

Industry Trends

What is Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Data?

The Covid pandemic not only uncovered significant data gaps in our public health system but also identified a need to better understand the intersection of how social determinants of health impacts...

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Medisolv Announces Top eCQM Performers

Columbia, MD, April 22, 2022 — Medisolv, Inc., a leader in quality management software, today announced their Top Inpatient eCQM (electronic clinical quality measures) Performers of quarter 4 (Q4) of...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

[Slideshow] 2023 IPPS Proposed Rule: IQR & PI Changes

CMS released the 2023 IPPS proposed rule. In it there was a huge emphasis on health equity and maternal care. You can see this reflected in the changes to your Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR)...

Industry Trends

Value-Based Care vs. Fee for Service: Are We There Yet?

The healthcare industry’s journey from fee-for-service reimbursement to value-based reimbursement has been long and slow. How far have we come? And how far do we still need to go?

Regulatory Updates: Ambulatory

[E-BOOK] MIPS MVPs: A Guide to Reporting

The MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) reporting program was started as a way to streamline the reporting requirements for clinicians and provide the public visibility into clinician...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

dQMs: Preparing for the Unknown

The acronym dQM has been floating around the healthcare sphere more regularly since CMS put their intention to go completely digital by 2025 in the last IPPS final rule. I’ve found that these...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

STEMI: The First eCQM for the OQR Program

For over a decade CMS has been incorporating Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) into the Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program. For the first time, CMS has released an eCQM for the...

Regulatory Updates: Ambulatory

[E-BOOK] Your 2022 MIPS Requirements

Whether you are responsible for one group of physicians or many groups (like an ACO), the key to MIPS reporting success year will be understanding your reporting requirements.

Industry Trends

How Technology Can Help Quality Departments Cope with the Great Resignation

Among the long-term effects of the pandemic is the “great resignation,” which is putting a strain on hospital quality departments’ ability to measure and monitor patient safety and quality. In this...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

Understanding SAFER Guides and a Review of your 2022 PI Requirements

The Promoting Interoperability (PI) Program originally was known as the Meaningful Use program and got started back in 2009. The program was initiated to get hospitals up and running with their...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

7 Questions to Ask a Healthcare Quality Improvement Vendor Before You Sign on the Dotted Line

Finding the right quality improvement vendor can feel like a blur of product demos and proposals. Here are 7 questions you should ask every vendor to make sure they’re more than just a great sales...

7 Ways to Vet a Healthcare Quality Improvement Vendor

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Four New eCQMs Added to Medisolv’s ENCOR Software

Columbia, MD, February 23, 2022 — Medisolv, Inc., a leader in quality management software, released four new eCQMs in their ENCOR for Electronic Hospital Measure software a year ahead of regulatory...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

How to Implement the Hybrid Mortality Measure

A new hybrid measure is on the horizon. Yes, another new measure that will be required for successful completion of your IQR program requirements. Here’s everything you need to know.

Implementing the Hybrid Mortality Measure

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

2022 Quality Reporting Deadlines Calendar

2022 Quality Reporting Dates and Deadlines Calendar

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

Keeping eCQM Resolutions Throughout the New Year

It wasn’t that long ago that we were talking about Y2K and stockpiling peanut butter and rice. Today when we look back at that time period, we laugh at our overreaction, but tell me truthfully - how...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

How to Successfully Implement ePC-06

The Joint Commission introduced a new perinatal eCQM last year—ePC-06 (Unexpected Complications in Term Newborns)—for accredited hospitals that deliver more than 300 babies a year. Kristen Beatson,...

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Medisolv Approved as CMS QCDR for 2022

Columbia, MD, January 27, 2022 — Medisolv, Inc., a leader in quality management software, is pleased to announce that the Medisolv Clinical Registry has been approved as a QCDR (Qualified Clinical...

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Medisolv Appoints Bryan Hoke as Chief Growth Officer

Columbia, MD, January 20, 2022 — Medisolv, Inc., a leader in quality management software, announced today the appointment of Bryan Hoke to the company’s executive leadership team as chief growth...

Bryan Hoke Medisolv Chief Growth Officer

Regulatory Updates: Ambulatory

The 10 Biggest Takeaways for MIPS Success in 2022

It’s officially go time for your MIPS 2022 Performance Year. What’s your team’s game plan? Here are the top 10 things to keep in mind as you whiteboard your strategy for MIPS success in 2022 and...

Industry Trends

How Does Digital Equity in Healthcare Affect Quality Data?

The digital divide can affect patients’ access to and acceptance of telehealth. Tannis Hargrove of the University of Montana Rural Institute for Inclusive Communities explains what quality managers...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

eCQM Benchmark Report & Top Performing Hospital List

eCQM Benchmark Report & Top Performing Hospital List For the first time, Medisolv is releasing to the public the top eCQM performers of Q1-Q3 of 2021 along with an exclusive inpatient eCQM benchmark...

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Medisolv Announces Top Inpatient eCQM Performers of 2021

Columbia, MD, January 5, 2022 — Medisolv, Inc., a leader in quality management software, today announced their Top Inpatient eCQM (electronic clinical quality measures) Performers of quarter 1 (Q1)...

Industry Trends

A Note From Our CEO: The Quest for Healthcare Quality Continues in 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping care delivery which is also impacting quality measures performance. How will that play out in the year ahead? What other trends will affect the work of quality...

Customer Stories

Merry Medisolving featuring Citizens Medical Center

Despite its smaller size, Citizens Medical Center is classified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an urban medical center. It’s a classification the hospital doesn’t take lightly....

Regulatory Updates: Ambulatory

Merry Medisolving featuring St. Anthony Regional Hospital

A veteran nurse and quality leader, Sandi Cook has witnessed a lot of ups and downs in the decade-long journey from meaningful use to MIPS. We chatted with her over Zoom to discuss the latest bump in...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

Merry Medisolving featuring Grady Health

Change is good. But, if we’re being honest, it can also be scary, stressful, and downright miserable. In the last two years, the quality improvement team at Grady Health in Atlanta has survived...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

Merry Medisolving featuring Salem Regional Medical Center

When you’ve been measuring and monitoring eCQMs for as long as Salem Regional Medical Center (SRMC) has, you learn a thing or two. We asked members of SRMC’s CQI team to share with us the most...

Merry Medisolving Salem Regional Medical Center

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

CMS vs TJC: 2022 Measure List Comparison

How are you feeling today? A little comma induced from yesterday's excessive eating? Perhaps you are reading this while still in your pajamas? Ah, yes. That is such a good feeling.

Value-Based Care

7 Ways You Can Protect Your Quality Data from Cyber Attacks

Cybercriminals want what you have: patient health information. But there are ways you can protect your quality data from ransomware and other cyber attacks, according to Medisolv’s Phil Holmes.

Regulatory Updates: Ambulatory

[Slideshow]: MIPS 2022 Changes from the Final Rule

The traditional MIPS program is proposed to close its doors by 2027. But don’t get too excited. It doesn’t mean that your Eligible Clinicians can stop reporting. Honestly, it’s actually going to...

Value-Based Care

Which States Had the Most Hospitals Penalized for Readmissions in 2022

Every year, CMS levies penalties nationwide on hospitals with poor readmission performance. Although they did remove some data from consideration because of the pandemic 82% of hospitals will still...

Value-Based Care

[E-BOOK] Position Quality as an Enterprise-Wide Strategic Asset

It seems like everyone is talking about quality these days. As a quality leader first and foremost you’re focused on improving the care of your patients, but somehow, you find yourself dedicating...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

What’s a Good Opioid eCQM Score?

Before we reveal the what, let’s talk about the why. Why did CMS create an opioid eCQM that the federal agency is requiring hospitals to submit starting on Jan. 1, 2022? You, as a hospital or health...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

2022 Joint Commission ORYX Requirements

The Joint Commission quietly released their 2022 ORYX® requirements this week. Or rather, I should say they were a bit buried beneath the announcement that The Joint Commission’s DDS platform is shut...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

What is Health Information Bi-Directional Exchange?

Over the years, how a patient’s healthcare information has been handled has changed drastically. For most of the 20th century, patients’ health records were housed in paper form, which was subject to...

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Medisolv’s ENCOR Software Earns ONC Health IT CURES Certification

Columbia, MD, October 6, 2021 — Medisolv, Inc., a leader in quality management software, has achieved Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC-Health IT) 2015 CURES...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

[E-BOOK] 2022 Hospital IQR Requirements

Each year the CMS Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program makes changes; sometimes slight and sometimes more drastic. In 2022, there are a few changes coming your way. For instance, did you know...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

2022 Hospital IQR Requirements

If it's September, it's time for you and your quality department to start preparing for the next year’s Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) program requirements. Here, we’ll give you a quick...

Value-Based Care

Healthcare-Associated Infections and COVID-19: An Update

The COVID-19 pandemic had a direct impact on how quality leaders like you do your jobs. From workplaces to workflows to workloads, everything changed in 2020.

Industry Trends

Patient Safety in the Time of COVID: 13 Ways to Improve Patient Matching at Your Hospital Now

Patient matching is vital to patient safety and is, in some cases, a matter of life or death. An exposé by Politico,"Inside America's Covid-reporting breakdown," illustrates why quality leaders like...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

A Comprehensive List of 2021 Chart-Abstracted Measure Requirements

The number of chart-abstracted measures you are required to abstract and submit varies by which programs you qualify for and which certifications your organization wants.

Regulatory Updates: Ambulatory

MIPS Value Pathways (MVPs): Which Path is Right for You?

CMS is opening seven new pathways for eligible clinicians to participate in the MIPS performance-based reimbursement system. Here’s a breakdown of the new options, plus tips on how you can prepare.

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

2022 IQR and PI Program Changes: A Summary from the IPPS Final Rule

CMS released their 2022 IPPS Final Rule and there was a lot in it. The biggest takeaway from this ruling is that CMS is moving toward all digital measurement at rapid speed. They are ramping up eCQM...

Regulatory Updates: Ambulatory

2022 MIPS Proposed Rule: Key Highlights

The traditional MIPS program will close its doors by 2027. But don’t get too excited. It doesn’t mean that your Eligible Clinicians can stop reporting. Honestly, it’s actually going to require you to...

Industry Trends

Where Venture Capital, Quality and Patient Data Collide

New digital health technologies are attracting billions in venture capital funding. This money represents potential new sources of patient health data for your quality department to manage. How are...

Value-Based Care

What Hospital Quality Leaders Say About CMS Star Ratings: Exclusive Medisolv Survey

Hospital quality improvement leaders have been chewing on CMS' latest hospital star ratings since they came out in April. An exclusive survey by Medisolv gave leaders an opportunity to speak out on...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

What are dQMs?

A new healthcare abbreviation is entering the quality improvement nomenclature: dQMs. What are they and how soon will they be here? Dr. Zahid Butt, Medisolv's CEO, explains.

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

Into the Abyss: Troubleshooting VTE-1 Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis (CMS108)

Almost every hospital participating in the CMS Inpatient Quality Reporting program tracks VTE-1 (Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis) for electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) reporting. And...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

50 Healthcare Quality Resources for 2021

Happy 4th of July everyone! We hope you have a great day full of hot dogs and hamburgers, apple pie and ice cream and fireworks, friends and family. In honor of Independence Day, we’ve gathered a...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

5 Ways to Optimize eCQM Workflows

Building inpatient eCQMs to submit to Medicare can be a cumbersome process, but if you follow these five tips, you can make your workflows more efficient and improve the accuracy and timeliness of...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

2021 Quality Reporting Bundle

Each year, Medisolv releases our annual Quality Reporting Bundle which contains the requirements, measure lists and deadlines for submission to the CMS IQR and TJC ORYX® quality initiative programs....

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

How to read an eCQM specification

Hospital eCQM specifications are meant for computers not humans. And yet, it’s up to you as a human (I mean, I assume you’re a human reading this) to interpret this computer document and translate...

Value-Based Care

Hospital Ratings and Rankings: You Are What Your Data Says You Are

There’s an old adage in sports that says you are what your record says you are. No matter what you think, your team is no better or no worse than its win/loss record. And as you’ve no doubt noticed...

Industry Trends

The Making of a Quality Measure: A Peek Behind the Curtain

There’s a lot that goes into developing a new quality measure before your quality department is required to collect and report it. Take a peek behind the curtain in this Q&A with two experts on...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

The Joint Commission’s Perinatal Measures: Choosing Between Abstracted or Electronic

With little fanfare, The Joint Commission for the first time is allowing accredited hospitals to submit their perinatal care measures digitally as electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) rather...

The Joint Commission’s Perinatal Measures Are Going Electronic. Should Your Hospital Plug In?

Value-Based Care

Healthcare Associated Infections: COVID-19’s Impact

Here’s an interesting thought. Healthcare statistics from 2020 will likely carry an asterisk to help explain why that data may be significantly different from years past and historic trends.

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

[Slideshow] 2022 IPPS Proposed Rule: eCQM & Hybrid Measure Changes

CMS released their 2022 IPPS proposed rule and included changes to the hybrid measure and eCQM requirements.

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

The Differences Between The 5 Major Stroke Measure Sets

This post is a guide to understanding the differences between the five major stroke measure sets. It’s a nightmare trying to keep straight this wide range of acronym-filled information. So, I’ve...

The Differences Between The 5 Major Stroke Measures Sets

Industry Trends

8 Things Quality Directors Need to Know About Future Outcomes-Based Quality Measures

How medical care is provided and paid for in the future will be all about outcomes and very little about structures and processes. It won’t be about whether you prescribed a beta blocker to a heart...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

14 Ways Quality Leaders Can Streamline Clinical Documentation for Clinicians

Picture this: You’ve entered a cake baking contest and are responsible for baking, decorating and serving a beautiful and delicious cake, but you must rely on others to provide the correct amounts of...

Regulatory Updates: Ambulatory

CMS Web Interface: Options for Transitioning to a New Reporting Method

The Quality Payment Program (QPP) has allowed large organizations to use the CMS Web Interface reporting method to complete MIPS requirements since the program launched in 2017. This gave these...

Regulatory Updates: Hospital

Using the New Opioid eCQM to Improve Prescribing Practices and Patient Care

Next year, CMS requires hospitals to submit the new Opioid eCQM to the IQR program. The data you submit will be publicly reported. This new eCQM does more than tell the public about your hospital’s...

How Quality Directors Can Use the New Opioid eCQM to Improve Prescribing Practices and Patient Care

Industry Trends

A Survey of Quality Leaders: Reflections from One Year of COVID

We know this year has been hard for everyone, especially our healthcare workers. We asked 150 quality leaders for their reflections on the last year, their responses are deeply moving.

Regulatory Updates: Ambulatory

Quality Superstar: Margaret O’Kane of NCQA on Using Quality Measures to Bring Accountability to Telehealth

No telemedicine visit is the same. Wide variations in electronic patient visits and the platforms on which they’re conducted are the result of a nationwide pivot almost overnight to virtual care...

Industry Trends

COVID Mortality Analysis of 547 Medisolv Hospitals Over Nine Months

As COVID-19 cases continue to tax hospitals, we felt it was worth diving into the data to see if there were any insights for quality departments. We pulled positive COVID-19 cases from 547 of our...

Industry Trends

Using Your eCQM Data for COVID-19 Process Improvement

Read our COVID Mortality Analysis of 547 Medisolv Hospitals Over Nine Months. We are on an ever-evolving COVID-19 treatment path. A year ago, your hospital was worried about diagnosing COVID-19...

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Should Your Hospital Track Retired Measures?

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STEMI: The First eCQM for the OQR Program

[E-BOOK] Your 2022 MIPS Requirements

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Merry Medisolving featuring Citizens Medical Center

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7 Ways You Can Protect Your Quality Data from Cyber Attacks

[Slideshow]: MIPS 2022 Changes from the Final Rule

Which States Had the Most Hospitals Penalized for Readmissions in 2022

[E-BOOK] Position Quality as an Enterprise-Wide Strategic Asset

What’s a Good Opioid eCQM Score?

2022 Joint Commission ORYX Requirements

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