Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative's Quality Data Center Achieves ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular EHR Certification From ICSA Labs

The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit pioneer and leader in healthcare delivery through health information technology, recently announced that its Quality Data Center (QDC), v. 3.0 a HIPAA-compliant modular electronic health record (EHR) solution for meeting internal and external clinical reporting requirements has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular EHR certification. The certification designates that the software is capable of supporting eligible hospitals and providers with meeting the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The QDC was certified on July 23, 2014 by ICSA Labs, an Office of the National Coordinator-Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) and is compliant in accordance with applicable criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

“The QDC helps to connect communities in Massachusetts by providing a comprehensive, data warehousing solution that seamlessly extracts and aggregates data from multiple clinical systems and provides timely feedback that helps clinical teams improve overall quality of care,” said David Delano, project director at the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. “We’re pleased that our QDC has achieved these additional certifications to help support eligible hospitals as they work to successfully attest to Meaningful Use Stage 1 and 2.”
ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, offers vendor-neutral testing and certification. ONC HIT 2014 Edition Certification is granted to those technologies that are capable of meeting the more rigorous testing criteria developed to support providers and hospitals who wish to demonstrate Stage 2 Meaningful Use, which focuses on the capability of health IT to deliver higher quality patient care and exchange clinical information securely.

The MAeHC QDC’s Inpatient certification number is 140193R00. The MAeHC QDC’s Ambulatory certification number is: 140192R00. ONC HIT certification conferred by ICSA Labs does not represent an endorsement of the certified EHR technology by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The MAeHC QDC, v. 3.0 meets the following Inpatient and Ambulatory certification criteria: 170.314(c)(1), 170.314(c)(2), 170.314(c)(3) and 170.314(g)(4).

The MAeHC QDC, v. 3.0 meets the following Inpatient clinical quality measures: CMS 9v2, CMS 26v1, CMS 30v3, CMS 31v2, CMS 32v3, CMS 53v2, CMS 55v2, CMS 60v2, CMS 71v3, CMS 72v2, CMS 73v2, CMS 91v3, CMS 100v2, CMS 102v2, CMS 104v2, CMS 105v2, CMS 107v2, CMS 108v2, CMS 109v2, CMS 110v2, CMS 111v2, CMS 113v2, CMS 114v2, CMS 171v3, CMS 172v3, CMS 178v3, CMS 185v2, CMS 188v3, CMS 190v2.

The MAeHC QDC, v. 3.0 meets the following Ambulatory clinical quality measures: CMS 2v3, CMS 50v2, CMS 62v1, CMS 65v2, CMS 68v3, CMS 69v2, CMS 74v2, CMS 75v1, CMS 77v1, CMS 82v1, CMS 117v1, CMS 122v1, CMS 123v1, CMS 124v1, CMS 125v1, CMS 126v1, CMS 127v1, CMS 130v1, CMS 131v1, CMS 134v1, CMS 136v3, CMS 138v1, CMS 146v2, CMS 147v1, CMS 148v1, CMS 149v1, CMS 153v1, CMS 154v2, CMS 155v2, CMS 157v2, CMS 158v1, CMS 163v1, CMS 164v1, CMS 165v1, CMS 166v2, CMS 177v2, CMS 179v2, CMS 182v1.

The additional types of costs that an Eligible Provider and Eligible Hospital would pay to implement this EHR module’s capabilities in order to attempt to meet meaningful use objectives and measures include: monthly subscription fees for hosting of clinical data and CQM measures generation plus any costs to extract and send secure clinical summary (CCDA, CCD) documents to the Quality Data Center.

Leveraging a cloud-based data warehouse, the QDC performs all of the information management and analytics required for a wide range of quality, utilization, case management and performance reporting requirements. What was originally developed in 2006 as a research platform has evolved into an end-to-end solution for integrating information to give visibility into health outcomes and process of care that is far superior to claims-based reporting and more flexible, reliable and accurate than EHR-based reporting.

Please visit http://oncchpl.force.com/ehrcert for a complete list of all MAeHC QDC certifications.

About Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC)
The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative is a national leader in the facilitation and management of electronic health record deployment, health information exchange and quality measure reporting. MAeHC is an independent non-profit corporation with a charitable mission to improve the delivery of health care by promoting the use of health IT. Formed in 2004 as a collaboration of non-profit health care stakeholders to demonstrate the most effective ways to deploy EHRs and HIE to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and affordability of care in Massachusetts, MAeHC now works across the United States with a wide range of physician practices, hospitals, state governments, contracting networks, management services organizations, HIE organizations, technology vendors, and consulting firms. For more information, visit www.maehc.org

About ONC Certification
The ONC Certified Health Information Technology (HIT) program tests and certifies that HIT is capable of meeting the 2014 Edition criteria approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). The certifications include Complete EHRs, which meet all of the 2014 Edition criteria for either eligible provider or hospital technology and EHR Modules, which meet one or more — but not all — of the criteria.

About ICSA Labs
ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, offers third-party testing and certification of security and health IT products, as well as network-connected devices, to measure product compliance, reliability and performance for many of the world’s top security vendors. ICSA Labs is an ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accredited and 9001:2008 registered organization. ICSA Labs is NVLAP accredited as a Health IT Test Lab and is also an ONC-Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) accredited by ANSI to ISO/IEC Guide 65. For more information, visit http://www.icsalabs.com.