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Inova Health System Adopts Quantros RRM Solution to Leverage Regulatory Data to Improve Quality

RRM supports Health System Goals for Automation and Efficiency

May 11, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - Quantros, Inc., a leading provider of software safety and quality solutions for the healthcare industry, announced that Inova Health System, a 6-hospital organization that admits more than 100,000 patients a year, has added another Quantros solution to its existing portfolio.

The large hospital system has been using Quantros Safety and Risk Management (SRM) solution and recently began using Quantros Regulatory Reporting Management solution (RRM). The new solution will enable the hospitals to coordinate, integrate and manage quality and physician performance reporting through automation and integration on the same platform. They can meet stringent federal and state regulatory demands by submitting data accurately and on-time.

Quantros RRM is a single, integrated, web-based data and workflow management tool that supports and complies with national and state quality initiatives. RRM provides real-time data, reporting and submissions for the Joint Commission, CMS, STS Cardiovascular Registry, ACC-NCDR CathPCI Registry and the AHA’s Get with the Guidelines as well as other state mandated reporting bodies. It delivers a seamless, structured framework for the data needed to address quality concerns and implement corrective action.

“One of the most significant challenges Inova faced when selecting a regulatory reporting solution was the need to support multiple facilities in multiple locations cost effectively”, said Marian Savage, Director of Quality at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital. In selecting RRM, the organization compared available software applications and determined that Quantros RRM provided the best solution for the automated collection and reporting that the hospitals and the Corporate Quality Committee require.

"We really needed to automate our quality and physician reporting efforts," said Savage. "We were spending a lot of time manually compiling reports – or we couldn’t get the data we needed. As a system, we are focused on concurrent reviews and impacting care while the patient is in the hospital.”

“Impacting care and resolving issues quickly in the Core Measure arena is the same philosophy we use with regard to safety issues, supported by Quantros SRM. The ability for anyone in the system to report an issue and have an alert generated to the appropriate parties for resolution is valuable to the organization," Said Deneen Richmond, System Assistant Vice President for Quality. “We can then track reviews and perform root cause analysis, as well as monitor action plans for the issue. Using one system for multiple applications is a real benefit and very cost effective for Inova Health System.”

Key RRM Solution Features Include:

• Client defined administrative and/or clinical data feeds/ uploads. Access to live, streaming, concurrent administration data to address quality issues.
• Real-time skip logic that allows for the elimination of those fields that don’t need to be answered
• Data definitions and contextual abstraction notes available online and for each field
• Sampling capability that allows users to randomly select records while RRM validates qualification for minimum sample set requirements
• Real-time data quality reports
• Quarterly comparison reports used to trend performance and outcomes with other hospitals
• Physician profiling that can be used to monitor the performance of physicians and identify any outliers
• Appropriate care reports that show whether a patient received the entire spectrum of care warranted

About Quantros

Quantros provides real-time knowledge creation solutions for benchmarking, patient safety, accreditation and compliance, and outcomes monitoring for leading healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Quantros' web delivered applications provide a standard platform for automating resource intensive manual processes. Through a variety of direct sales and vendor partners, more than 1,000 health care facilities are licensed to use Quantros' web-based technology solutions.

Quantros team members include physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals. We are a healthcare information management technology company with a difference; our key product decisions are driven by experts in healthcare quality and performance improvement, safety, compliance, risk management and nursing. Visit Quantros on the web at www.quantros.com.

About Inova Health System

Inova Health System is a not-for-profit healthcare system based in Northern Virginia that consists of hospitals and other health services, including emergency- and urgent-care centers, home care, nursing homes, mental health and blood donor services, and wellness classes. Governed by a voluntary board of community members, Inova’s mission is to improve the health of the diverse community it serves through excellence in patient care, education and research. Inova provides a healthy environment for its patients, families, visitors, staff and physicians by prohibiting tobacco use on its campuses.