Apertiva, Mayo partner on self-service measures platform

Apervita and Mayo Clinic are partnering to establish a self-service health measures platform. 

The analytics company will expand its platform capabilities to enable any health professional to publish or subscribe to standard, as well as custom, health measures. The new capability automatically transforms measure definitions into computable analytics and is being developed with Mayo Clinic contributing its expertise in medical care, know how and technology.

Thousands of health measures for quality, safety, outcomes and finance already are available and increasingly becoming the basis for measurement of performance and reimbursement for value-based care. The complexity, however, means updates and reports take months.

With this new approach, Apervita will offer a family of open interfaces, including open web service APIs, allowing standard measure definitions to be imported, edited, published, executed and exported, according to a release. Once an author has developed a measure, it can be easily connected to different data sets as well as shared through a global marketplace. Measure results can be displayed on the Apervita platform or accessed through APIs for display within EMRs, third-party systems and mobile applications. The import and export of measures supports the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality Data Model through which all modern measures are today made available.

“There is already an abundance of health measures that support national, state and local objectives, but creating and deploying them can be a daunting task for any health enterprise. With this new capability, Apervita will serve as a platform for standard health measures, facilitating the distribution and execution of expertly developed and conveniently packaged measure sets,” said Paul Magelli, CEO of Apervita. “Apervita subscribers can conveniently browse measures and build their own measure sets, implementing them across their entire organization to monitor and improve performance. No more costly hours spent designing and coding health measures based on individual interpretations of a published standard. For the first time, the entire organization can concentrate on delivering performance excellence, while the development of standard measures are left to subject matter experts.”

“Healthcare providers and facilities should focus on what they do best, providing high quality patient care. After all, that’s what healthcare measures are designed to enable,” said Jyotishman Pathak PhD, professor of biomedical informatics at Mayo Clinic. “With thousands of healthcare measures which continuously evolve, keeping track of, implementing and monitoring the measures has shifted some of that focus away from the patients, and it needs to shift back.”