Health quality measures systems and methods
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1. A method of reporting a health quality measure (HQM), the method comprising:
- providing, for a plurality of healthcare providers, access to an HQM service, comprising at least one computer, that is coupled to a first funding organization and a second funding organization, the HQM service configured to receive, from each of the plurality of healthcare providers, patient data in a proprietary format corresponding to the healthcare provider and convert the received patient data from the proprietary format to a common HQM data format;
providing a healthcare provider interface coupled to the HQM service computer;
allowing each of the plurality of healthcare providers to use the healthcare provider interface to define a first mathematical expression that uses at least some of the patient data corresponding to the healthcare provider for computing a first HQM according to requirements of the first funding organization;
deriving, by the HQM service, the first HQM for each of the plurality of healthcare providers based on the patient data corresponding to the healthcare provider and the first mathematical expression defined by the healthcare provider;
upon request by the first funding organization, generating, by the HQM service computer, a first HQM report having the derived first HQM, where the report is automatically formatted according to requirements of the first funding organization; and
automatically sending, by the HQM service computer, the generated first HQM report to the first funding organization.
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Abstract
Systems and methods of exchanging Healthcare Quality Measures (HQM) are disclosed. Healthcare providers can define one or more HQMs by constructing expressions using an expression builder according to a funding organization'"'"'s requirements. Once a measure is derived, it can be converted to a common HQM data format and exchanged with the organization via an intermediary HQM service. The HQM data can then be converted into the organization'"'"'s proprietary format. Thus, HQM data exchanges among providers and organizations are simplified.
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1. A method of reporting a health quality measure (HQM), the method comprising:
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providing, for a plurality of healthcare providers, access to an HQM service, comprising at least one computer, that is coupled to a first funding organization and a second funding organization, the HQM service configured to receive, from each of the plurality of healthcare providers, patient data in a proprietary format corresponding to the healthcare provider and convert the received patient data from the proprietary format to a common HQM data format; providing a healthcare provider interface coupled to the HQM service computer; allowing each of the plurality of healthcare providers to use the healthcare provider interface to define a first mathematical expression that uses at least some of the patient data corresponding to the healthcare provider for computing a first HQM according to requirements of the first funding organization; deriving, by the HQM service, the first HQM for each of the plurality of healthcare providers based on the patient data corresponding to the healthcare provider and the first mathematical expression defined by the healthcare provider; upon request by the first funding organization, generating, by the HQM service computer, a first HQM report having the derived first HQM, where the report is automatically formatted according to requirements of the first funding organization; and automatically sending, by the HQM service computer, the generated first HQM report to the first funding organization. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A healthcare quality measure (HQM) analysis engine comprising a computer, the engine further comprising:
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an HQM database storing HQM data in a common HQM data format where the HQM data represents patient data obtained from a plurality of healthcare providers, the patient data from each of the plurality of healthcare providers is in a proprietary data format corresponding to the healthcare provider; a network interface communicatively coupled to the plurality of healthcare providers via a packet switched network and configured to allow each of the plurality of healthcare providers to define a mathematical expression that uses at least some of the HQM data corresponding to the healthcare provider for computing an HQM according to requirements of a first funding organization and store the encounter data mathematical expression in the HQM database; an HQM analysis module configured to derive a measure for each of the plurality of healthcare providers based on the HQM data corresponding to the healthcare provider and the mathematical expression defined by the healthcare provider; a HQM reporting module configured to generate, for the first funding organization, an HQM report based on the derived measures of the healthcare providers, where the generated report is automatically formatted according to requirements of the first funding organization; and an organization interface communicatively coupled to the plurality of healthcare organizations via a network and configured to present the generated HQM reports to the first funding organization via the network. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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