MeasureAble

The Health Catalyst MeasureAble™ application is a quality measures solution that combines complete data, visualizations, and workflows (measurement, improvement, and submission) into one comprehensive system.

MeasureAble displays a measures performance dashboard and acts as a submission engine, submitting data to payers— creating a single, authoritative source of truth, starting with quality data aggregated by the Health Catalyst data and analytics platform. MeasureAble reduces regulatory overload, allowing for the prioritization of patient care. 

Notes:

• MeasureAble is Acquired Technology and NOT included in the Health Catalyst Technology Access subscription unless otherwise noted in an order form.
• The MeasureAble computing environment will be SOC 2 Type 2 audited during the 2021 Health Catalyst audit cycle. HITRUST certification of this environment is planned for 2022.

The MeasureAble dashboard shows performance per measure, with options to drill down care gaps by populations or individual patients

The problem

Healthcare providers need to monitor their quality of care to ensure the best outcomes for patients and complete data for performance reporting. Often this is a cost and time burden, where meeting performance targets relies on incomplete data, calculations, and visualizations. Providers and support staff spend so much time collecting and aggregating data to track and trend their performance that they have limited time to get at the source of how to improve performance where it matters most, with their patients.

Quality teams struggle to collect, validate, and submit data while maintaining dashboards, often a manual process. This limits time to support improvement goals at the individual provider, unit, organization, and system level. At all levels, and even with the best intentions, quality can become about making data and dashboards rather than making a difference.

Our approach

By combining complete data, measures, calculations, and visualizations in a single application, MeasureAble shows where care needs to improve and guides the daily workflow for performing and capturing the improvements. A clean, results-driven dashboard shows daily metrics for internal reporting for stakeholders, especially physicians.

This system creates a centralized, aggregated master record of quality performance, eliminating the need to track down pieces of information integral for improvements. MeasureAble combines the work of monitoring, improving, and submitting quality performance.

Benefits and features

• Calculate performance of complete provider quality measures. MeasureAble offers a growing measures library that already includes more than 250 existing measures.
• Use data from a complete list of data sources in measure calculations. A comprehensive measures engine combines and calculates performance using every available data element, not just the data mapped to your electronic health record (EHR).
• Visualize complete performance metrics (including benchmarks and scoring systems). Dashboard visualizations with real-time tracking and monitoring identify high-priority opportunities across providers, locations, and the entire enterprise.
• Submit complete and compliant data to payers. A submission engine within the application allows for a single-source process from calculating to submitting performance data to commercial payers and Medicare (for the MIPS and HEDIS programs).

Use cases

• A chief quality officer needs to monitor performance across the organization. They need to trust the data enough to weigh in on strategic decisions, such as entering new performance contracts. With MeasureAble they can easily visualize and evaluate performance across provider groups.
• A service-line leader needs to set a baseline and work with providers to improve outcomes in a unit, but a backlog in analytics tickets is holding up their ability to identify care gaps. With MeasureAble, service-line leaders create gap lists by population or patient within seconds. This informs hands-on care with patients, improving their quality of life.
• A chief medical officer is tasked with demonstrating measurable improvements in diabetes care across their hospital. Working with quality leads and the extensive measures library in MeasureAble, they identify opportunities to reinforce provider education and monitor performance. They use data to guide their teams and show improvements with data-informed visualizations over the long term—all from the single source MeasureAble application.