Acesis Performance Improvement Platform provides digital performance assessment capabilities for hospitals

Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 21st Annual National Forum

Acesis, the enterprise software firm, headquartered in Silicon Valley and focused on healthcare, today announced its expanded technology solution, the Acesis Performance Improvement Platform that provides hospitals digital performance assessment capabilities that can be easily set up for each hospital’s unique vision of quality care. Designed with a Dynamic Business Application core and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) delivery, the platform integrates review and reporting processes to streamline performance improvement activities. Thanks to the intuitive user interface and built-in flexibility, the hospital staff are empowered to easily and cost-effectively adapt the solution to fit their specific health system needs and constraints. As hospitals replicate and scale their best practice processes, the new Acesis solution provides the administrative support to enable true change management for ongoing performance improvement.

“Our Acesis Performance Improvement Platform provides hospitals and health systems with the flexibility to continuously evolve, ultimately improving their approach to raising standards of care as their needs change,” said Kevin Chesney, CEO of Acesis. “Through Acesis, hospital leaders such as the Chief Medical Officer, VP of Quality and VP of Risk Management, finally have the ability to streamline their best practices within an interconnected, collaborative environment where information becomes actionable knowledge. Acesis facilitates the evolution from discrete and siloed views on activities to the connected and comprehensive oversight and understanding needed to take action and effect real change in healthcare.”

“When it comes to healthcare technologies, solutions are often over-hyped and fall short of expectations,” said Robert Wachter, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco (UCSF); Associate Chairman, UCSF Department of Medicine; Chief of the Medical Service, UCSF Medical Center. “In this case however, the Acesis Performance Improvement Platform has been tremendously helpful, providing a dynamic and practical tool to help our physicians and staff improve the quality and safety of the care we deliver.”

“Acesis gives our division at UCSF the ability to systematically assess quality through case review and analyze results effectively and in real time—thus moving from simple assessment into real improvement,” said Arpana Vidyarthi, M.D., Director of Quality for the Division of Hospital Medicine and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Division of Hospital Medicine. “Acesis makes it possible for our physicians to thoroughly and efficiently examine individual medical cases thereby turning data into actionable knowledge — providing us with an effective mechanism to improve and streamline our quality processes and better understand individual and systemic issues that impact quality of care.”

The platform enables a wide variety of independent product modules addressing specific performance improvement processes, such as focused peer review, root cause analysis, incident reporting, OPPE, and improvement projects. System users are given access to those features appropriate for their responsibilities. Appropriate sharing of de-identified case evaluations and outcome metrics can be used to foster additional collaboration across hospital divisions to develop and track best practices, still within a single system.

The efficiency and flexibility of the Acesis Performance Improvement Platform also extends the reach of McKesson’s InterQual decision support criteria content into most any quality or performance improvement process including utilization review and reimbursement recovery.

“We continue to expand and strengthen our partner relationships so healthcare organizations can benefit from more coordinated, more efficient solutions to their healthcare management challenges,” said Tammie Philips, Vice President of InterQual for McKesson Health Solutions.