McKesson Quality eMeasures™ calculates and submits meaningful use quality measures to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the states, providing an integrated approach to meeting reporting requirement. It is part of the McKesson Enterprise Intelligence portfolio of solutions.

1. McKesson Quality eMeasures™ for
Horizon Clinicals®
Benefits To receive Medicare and Medicaid The web-based software as a service
reimbursements under the (SaaS) model allows stakeholders
– Meets ARRA Stage 1 quality Health Information Technology immediate access to view, monitor
reporting requirements for Economic and Clinical Health and analyze results as needed.
(HITECH) Act, hospitals must report As new measures are introduced,
– Integrates seamlessly with
on 15 hospital quality measures McKesson will quickly incorporate
your McKesson EHR
using certified electronic health changes into the calculations to
– Reduces IT impact with the record (EHR) technology to collect prevent reporting backlogs.
SaaS delivery model and calculate data. Manual data
abstraction is not allowed. McKesson Getting Started
– Includes business advisors Quality eMeasures™ calculates McKesson Quality eMeasures
to facilitate enterprisewide and submits meaningful use is available to customers who
adoption of metrics quality measures to the Centers have installed the required EHR
for Medicare & Medicaid Services technology and implemented
(CMS) and the states, providing an codified and prescriptive clinical
integrated approach to meeting content. To capture the data
reporting requirements. necessary for metric calculation,
organizations must be live house-
Measurement as a By-Product of wide on the following products:
Patient Care
Quality measure calculation – Horizon Emergency Care™ (or
requires complex calculations and other certified EDIS)
statistical comparisons. Measures
– Horizon Expert Orders™
rely on SNOMED-coded problems,
procedures and diagnoses; LOINC®- – Horizon Admin-Rx™
coded lab results; RxNorm-coded
medication administrations and – Horizon Health Summary™
other discrete, coded data captured
as a by-product of patient care. – Horizon Expert Documentation™
McKesson Quality eMeasures extracts
The implementation of McKesson
data, calculates each measure
Quality eMeasures begins within
and displays results in a dynamic
approximately 30 days of your
scorecard, attestation report or
Horizon Clinicals® 10.3.1 go-live and
submission file that enables fast,
spans approximately six to eight
patient-level analysis.
weeks.
Seamless Technology
The McKesson Quality eMeasures
solution is a core component of
your EHR. Clinical documentation
captured at the point of care is
extracted regularly and automatically
aggregated, rapidly returning
reliable information.

2. Features Accelerated Adoption Quality Benchmarks Collaborative,
Achieving meaningful use is more not required for Stage 1
– Dynamic scorecard displays
than a technology initiative. meaningful use, is part of the
results in an interactive
Adopting EHR technology requires McKesson Enterprise Intelligence
format
organizational and individual portfolio of solutions, designed
– Web-based access to behavior change. McKesson’s to drive transparency and shared
the measures allowing business advisors ensure accountability across the healthcare
stakeholders across the data adheres to the codified enterprise. As health reform begins
enterprise to view, monitor documentation and teach staff how to drive additional changes to
and analyze results as needed to analyze coded data. Trained in existing processes of payment and
quality measurement and clinical care delivery, McKesson’s advanced
– McKesson business advisors process improvement, McKesson’s analytics and benchmarking
support throughout the initial business advisors provide support solutions will lay the foundation
reporting process throughout the initial reporting needed to survive in a rapidly
process with on-site visits and web changing environment.
conferencing. Services include: For More Information
– Data auditing and validation For more information on
McKesson Quality e-Measures
– System administration education or Horizon Clinicals, contact
your account executive or visit
– Interpretation of results and
www.mckesson.com.
identification of failure points
– Scorecard navigation and drill-
down functionality
– Assistance with governance
around the distribution, use and
accountability for each quality
metric
Preparing for the Future
McKesson Quality eMeasures is the
foundation for McKesson’s Quality
Benchmarks Collaborative™ registry,
which provides comparative quality
statistics and advanced analytics for
subscribers regardless of their EHR
vendors.
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