Medisolv CEO Dr. Zahid Butt Appointed to Partnership for Quality Measurement’s 2024-2025 Pre-Rulemaking Measure Review Hospital Committee

Columbia, MD, (September 4, 2024) — Medisolv is pleased to announce that the Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM), powered by Battelle, has appointed Dr. Zahid Butt, CEO of Medisolv, to the 2024-2025 Pre-Rulemaking Measure Review (PRMR) Hospital Committee. In this role, Dr. Butt joins a diverse group of industry experts in healthcare, quality measurement, and health information technology to help advise the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on its selection of measures to include in CMS Medicare quality programs intended for hospitals and hospital-related settings.

Each year, HHS publishes a list of measures under consideration for future federal rulemaking. The PRMR process supports consensus recommendations on which of these measures should be included for CMS quality reporting and value-based programs. The Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) is the research and development organization that currently holds the federal contract to oversee the PRMR process. To ensure informed and thoughtful recommendations are made, PQM involves experts in healthcare quality improvement and interested parties across the field.

Dr. Butt was appointed to the PRMR Hospital Committee for a two-year term. During the 2024-2025 cycle, he will serve on the committee’s Recommendation Group, reviewing, assessing, and voting on whether measures under consideration are recommended for use in specific CMS programs.

“The PRMR Hospital Committee plays an important role in improving the quality of U.S. health care by providing expert perspective on which measures are true indicators of hospital performance and patient safety. I look forward to working with my fellow committee members to make our best recommendations to CMS and ensure we continue to advance the quality of safe care in our hospitals.”

A pioneer in digital quality measurement, Dr. Butt often lends his expertise to influence health care policy. He has served on many technical expert panels for CMS, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), and The Joint Commission (TJC). He is an active member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and currently chairs the HIMSS Quality and Safety Task Force which provides input to the HIMSS Public Policy Committee. In 2023, HIMSS awarded him a HIMSS Changemaker in Health award in the category of Policy Influencer.

About Medisolv, Inc. Medisolv is a national leader in health care quality data management solutions for hospitals, ambulatory care providers, ACOs, and more. Its all-in-one quality management platform, ENCOR, helps healthcare organizations advance patient care by measuring and improving their performance on more than 500 national quality and safety measures, including those required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, The Joint Commission, private payers, and state agencies. Medisolv now serves more than 1,700 hospitals and 15,000 providers nationwide and has been honored with the Black Book award and the Best in KLAS award for healthcare client satisfaction, as well as the HIMSS Policy Changemaker award for their pioneering work in digital quality measurement. For more information about Medisolv, please visit www.medisolv.com.

Contact: Erin Heilman
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Medisolv
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