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Debbie -- Joe mentions two good JCAHO CM systems -- MHA being one of the oldest and considered one of the most customer friendly (recently they did a conversion from HBOC to Meditech for a hospital I am working with and they were incredible, made the conversion so easy). Medstat is also an excellent system, data turn around used to be a bit slow, when I was working with the software but am sure it's quicker now. There are a number of other systems out there for Core Measures. Suggest you take a look at the JCAHO web site under CM vendors. You are in WA state you might be interested in Solucient (in Bellevue) either their Polarius or Explorer product. Depending on the level of drill down capability you want, take a look at Institute for Health Metrics. I think they are currently presenting at some of the Meditech road shows. I think some of the key questions to ask is what is Olympic's current level of clinical automation and what do you want from your CM/JCAHO activities? What kind of resources "quality" do you have? For instance Atlas (the old Mediqual Program) is pretty labor intensive, but allows you to decide the level of abstraction detail you want. Of course that's because you are hand abstracting the data even with the ADT and Lab downloads. I hope this helps. Jan Barrett, MSN,CPHQ Healthcare Quality Consultant -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Cocuzzo Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 5:00 PM To: Debbie Camfield; [email protected] Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] What do you use for JCAHO and Core measures All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== Some of our customers use software from "the QI Project", a non-profit organization related to the Maryland Hospital Association. http://www.qiproject.org/ The software takes an XML formatted feed. Somebody posted one to our report library a few years ago, I do not know if the version in our library supports the latest qip specification. We've done feeds for both Magic and C/S to meet the latest qip format. Quite a few of our customers use software from "MedStat". They have a flat file format for getting the basic demographics, diagnoses and procedure, and payor data into their software. We've done feeds for C/S and Magic for that software also. The basic procedure for both software tools is to feed all patients to the QIP or Medstat system, which then selects the cases which meet the Core Measures criteria and prompt you to provide the additional information needed. The feeds allow you to provide that information electronically, but most hospitals need to pull charts to get all the information anyway, so the typical feed just sends the information available in MT standard fields. I have no knowledge of the relative merits of either the qi project software or the Medstat software, I just know that those are the two vendors for which we have programmed a feed of data from the ABS module. Joe Cocuzzo Vice President NPR Services Iatric Systems, Inc. Phone/Fax: (978) 805-4115 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.iatric.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie Camfield Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] What do you use for JCAHO and Core measures All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== Hi all - What do you use to gather JCAHO required information on Information Management Standards and for Core Measures data collection/submission? Vendors welcome to reply Debbie Camfield Olympic Medical Center _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
