Health analytics company Apervita is teaming-up with Mayo Clinic to develop a new capability that automatically transforms measure definitions into computable analytics.

Right now, there are already thousands of health measures for quality, safety, outcomes, and finance, with many more to come. These are increasingly the basis for measurement of performance and reimbursement for value-based care. Unfortunately, they are notoriously complex and organizations struggle with the costly process of implementing and maintaining them, often resulting in delays of more than 12 months to report new or update existing measures. With the 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. 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 apps. The import and export of measures supports the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Data Model (QDM) through which all modern measures are today made available.

“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.”