[{"innerBlocks":[],"name":"core\/freeform","postId":488,"blockType":{"name":"core\/freeform","keywords":[],"attributes":{"content":{"type":"string","source":"raw"},"lock":{"type":"object"}},"providesContext":[],"usesContext":[],"selectors":[],"supports":{"className":false,"customClassName":false,"reusable":false},"styles":[],"variations":[],"apiVersion":3,"title":"Classic","description":"Use the classic WordPress editor.","category":"text"},"originalContent":"MercyCare Health Plans will deploy a cloud-based solution to streamline its Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) submissions.MercyCare has signed a multi-year agreement with Newport Beach, Calif.-based Vital Data Technology to make Affinit\u0113 Quality\u2019s real-time quality analytics, which are provided by measure and member, the companies said.According to Vital, some of the top challenges health plans face include identifying, stratifying and prioritizing members; using applied data science techniques to systematically segment members by specific criteria, enabling actionable, timely interventions; and managing and tracking how well providers are performing to quality measures year-round. The company contends that these challenges can be solved by using Affinit\u0113 Quality\u2019s artificial intelligence, risk algorithms and quality metrics that stratify and prioritize care interventions for members.MercyCare\u2014a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercyhealth based in Janesville, Wis., serving 40,000 members located throughout southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois\u2014joins other organizations nationwide seeking to leverage Affinit\u0113's integrated advanced analytics and algorithms embedded with HEDIS measures, the companies said.

\u201cAffinit\u0113 Quality gives us timely and profound insight into our members' quality status,\u201d says April Hays, director of compliance and quality and audit privacy officer for MercyCare. \u201cThe solution is thorough and intuitive, eliminating tedious data rework year-over-year\u2014making the whole process much faster and more effective."Vital Data Technology's Affinit\u0113 Quality solution, part of the Affinit\u0113 platform, accelerates quality improvement efforts by aggregating every measure into a single quality scorecard that has drill-down capabilities for displaying measure performance, according to Vital Data Technology. The solution drives workflow efficiencies and data accuracy through multi-level administrative control, year-round medical record abstraction and review, and alleviates error-prone workload increases during HEDIS submission season. \u201cOur goal at Vital Data Technology is to help health plan leaders better leverage their data in this new era of healthcare,\u201d says Matt D'Ambrosia, CEO of Vital Data Technology. "Health plans like MercyCare are great client partners for us, because they value innovation and collaboration as we take HEDIS from an after-the-fact measurement of the quality process, to a quality improvement solution that benefits the plan and their members year-round." Vital Data Technology\u2019s partners include Medicare, Medicaid, commercial and self-funded adult and pediatric populations nationwide.","saveContent":"MercyCare Health Plans will deploy a cloud-based solution to streamline its Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) submissions.MercyCare has signed a multi-year agreement with Newport Beach, Calif.-based Vital Data Technology to make Affinit\u0113 Quality\u2019s real-time quality analytics, which are provided by measure and member, the companies said.According to Vital, some of the top challenges health plans face include identifying, stratifying and prioritizing members; using applied data science techniques to systematically segment members by specific criteria, enabling actionable, timely interventions; and managing and tracking how well providers are performing to quality measures year-round. The company contends that these challenges can be solved by using Affinit\u0113 Quality\u2019s artificial intelligence, risk algorithms and quality metrics that stratify and prioritize care interventions for members.MercyCare\u2014a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercyhealth based in Janesville, Wis., serving 40,000 members located throughout southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois\u2014joins other organizations nationwide seeking to leverage Affinit\u0113's integrated advanced analytics and algorithms embedded with HEDIS measures, the companies said.

MercyCare Health Plans taps cloud-based AI tool for HEDIS compliance

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