General Dynamics Information Technology has come up with a way to deliver measurement information to make it easier for managed care organizations to grade how effectively they are, indeed, managing healthcare.
For the 19th year, General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, announced it has received National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) Software Certification for Version 14.0 of its MedMeasures software, according to a company press release.
It’s a lot of words but what it means is that MedMeasures provides the tools to help managed care organizations figure out how well they are meeting the needs of consumers for quality healthcare by analyzing and processing the data they collect.
HEDIS measures are used by approximately 90 percent of all managed care organizations and the MedMeasures application, updated every year, has been certified annually since the introduction of the HEDIS Software Certification process in 1993, according to the press release.
MedMeasures' HEDIS Certification signifies that it’s something managed care organizations can use to simplify the analysis and processing of their healthcare data and reporting to make sure they are complying with accreditation standards. It eliminates the need for users to develop and audit the software code to figure out HEDIS scores themselves, according to the company.
"General Dynamics' MedMeasures helps commercial health payers reduce reliance on over-extended information technology and quality management staff deliver accurate and timely quality measurement information and ensure on-time HEDIS reporting," said Marcus Collier, senior vice president for General Dynamics Information Technology's Health and Civilian Solutions Division, in the press release. "Receiving certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance for our software solution gives health payers a running start in implementing continuous and effective quality improvement programs to better serve health care providers and plan members."
MedMeasures works by integrating administrative and medical chart data, eliminating “manual source code review, as well as the analysis, coding and testing of the annual updates to stated specification,” according to the press release.
NCQA took on the responsibility for managing the evolution of HEDIS certification in 1992; with the goal of setting up a standardized set of performance measures that could be used by various constituencies to compare health plans to help drive quality improvement in the market.
Edited by
Brooke Neuman
