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We recently side-graded from a well loved and used Oracle EMR platform to CPS-10. The migration caused an interesting glitch in that any flags previously attached to patient charts had that functionality broken so it would not automatically open the chart. No biggie but when it can't do this, it goes to the MQIC page with this huge obnoxious advertisement for it and blatantly lets you know you are not subscribed and set up for that feature. So we had the sales pitch from GE and I see the benefit to the automated reporting for MU and others but it appears that some of the MQIC functionality overlaps that of Care Manager. Can anyone give me the quick PRO's and CON's of each or their potential differences? I am well versed in CareManager but have never seen the MQIC in production.
Greg Fishback Director of Information Technology for GreenField Health
Posted : February 6, 2013 3:52 am
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We recently side-graded from a well loved and used Oracle EMR platform to CPS-10. The migration caused an interesting glitch in that any flags previously attached to patient charts had that functionality broken so it would not automatically open the chart. No biggie but when it can't do this, it goes to the MQIC page with this huge obnoxious advertisement for it and blatantly lets you know you are not subscribed and set up for that feature. So we had the sales pitch from GE and I see the benefit to the automated reporting for MU and others but it appears that some of the MQIC functionality overlaps that of Care Manager. Can anyone give me the quick PRO's and CON's of each or their potential differences? I am well versed in CareManager but have never seen the MQIC in production.
Greg Fishback Director of Information Technology for GreenField HealthJoey ---we are on MQIC it is a good reporting tool for meaningful use.But, what is CareManager??
Posted : February 11, 2013 5:37 am
At this time, MQIC is only refreshed once a month. Your reports in CM will always be more up-to-date. Data in MQIC is de-identified so any time you want to chase down a particular patient based on clinical data, you'll have to export the report to Excel and then re-identify everyone. I haven't seen Care Manager for a while so I don't recall if it has any visual dashboards. MQIC doesn't have any, and dashboards can always be a great way to absorb a lot of information without combing through numbers.
MQIC does have advantages for monthly reporting and Meaningful Use as mentioned above. However, my bias is that if you are using CM for care management and action at the point of care, MQIC can't compete on the same level.
Posted : February 11, 2013 5:51 am
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Thanks for your opinion Mitch.
JAMartinez, Care Manager is a Centricity Disease Management tool created by Kryptiq. A brief description from the "Introduction To" manual states:
"The purpose of CareManager is to facilitate improvement in the quality of care provided to patients with a common medical condition. CareManager assimilates information stored as structured data in your existing electronic health record (EHR) database. CareManager abstracts data from the required fields and reorganizes it to allow clinicians at-a-glance comprehensive information to assist in patient care decision making. In addition to providing the necessary data to improve the care of individual patients with a common condition, CareManager measures the clinician’s performance on key care parameters within the population. This performance data is compared to an achievable benchmark of the clinician’s peers. Care may be further improved by rapid access to on-line materials for clinicians and patients"
When used correctly, it is one hell of a decision support tool. Licensing isn't too expensive.
It has many modules like Diabetes, Airway Disease, Cancer Screening, Coronary Heart Disease and much more.
I have the "Introduction To" PDF if you want me to send it to you I'd be happy to (It is on the Kryptiq support site if you have a login). Just provide an email address.
Greg Fishback Director of Information Technology for GreenField Health
Posted : February 11, 2013 7:17 am
