Meaningful Use Dashboards-How do I use them?

Meaningful Use Dashboards-How do I use them?

SOAPware 2011 and 2012 include (3) Meaningful Use Dashboards. Each one having important, but different tools. Our clinical training team has received multiple emails, cases, and phone calls related to confusion on which one to use, how are they used, and where are they found in SOAPware?

Meaningful Use Patient Dashboard

We would like to help clear up some of these questions and uncertainties for our users. Let’s first discuss the Meaningful Use Patient Dashboard. This dashboard is a tool to track compliance for individual patients. However,  it does not include all Meaningful Use measures that are to be met , but has been developed to help guide SOAPware users toward Meaningful Use workflows. The Patient Meaningful Use Dashboard is accessed from the View menu item and can be used when a patient chart is open with a new Face to Face SOAPnote/Encounter; This tool will be grayed out if there is not a new Face to Face SOAPnote created for the patient. When a measure has not been met for a patient, a red “X” will be displayed for the item in the Compliance Details list. A green “√” will be shown for measures that have been met. The Patient Compliance percentage bar will also reflect that the patient is not meeting 100% of the patient-specific Meaningful Use requirements. For more information regarding this dashboard, Click on the provided link: Patient Meaningful Use Dashboard

Meaningful Use Dashboard

The Meaningful Use Dashboard is used for viewing, exporting and trending Meaningful Use statistics for providers. This workspace is located in the SOAPware menu item. When updating provider statistics, this can ONLY run for the current date and will run a snapshot for the previous 90 days from the current date selected. Users cannot select a Snapshot Date in the past and update statistics for that date. It is also very important for the provider to Update Statistics on the final day of their selected reporting period. A green “√” indicates that the item has met the Meaningful Use requirements, and a grey “X” indicates that the item has not met the Meaningful Use criteria. MU items listed in the Snapshot are only items that are tracked in SOAPware and require that you meet a percent threshold. The Meaningful Use Dashboard allows our users to view a graph of the trend for each Meaningful Use requirement that is listed in the dashboard. It will also automatically calculate each Meaningful Use criteria as interpreted by SOAPware. In some instances, providers might interpret a measure differently and has the capability and opportunity to add an Adjustment. Adjustments made will not change the automatic calculation by SOAPware but will track and allow users to print at the time of self attestation. For more information regarding the Meaningful Use Dashboard, Click on the provided link: Meaningful Use Dashboard

Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) Reporting Dashboard:

How to Use the Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) Reporting Dashboard: This workspace can also be accessed in the SOAPware menu item. There are (44) Clinical Quality Measures and are sorted by Core, Alternate Core, and Additional measures in the SOAPware CQMs user guide. Shortcuts are also detailed within each measure lesson that will assist with the structured documentation needed to fulfill the CQMs. This guide is designed to walk users through the steps of exporting Clinical Quality Measure data for reporting. Measures can be located in the CQMs dashboard by the measure number and the selection of the reporting periods will be made for the export of each measure. Color coding has been created within this lesson as a guide and visual explanation for reading the XML document that has been exported and saved as a file for each measure. At this time, CMS does not require that the user upload the XML document during the attestation process, but may be a future requirement for Meaningful Use Stages. For more information regarding the CQMs Reporting Dashboard, Click on the provided link: How to Use the CMS Quality Reporting Dashboard