Bonnie + popHealth = WIN

[Eric Whitley]

Sharing since this is related to making popHealth useful at your organization.  Huge thank you to Mitre for passing this info along.  This is extremely exciting news for those of us wanting to do more with the MAT.

What's popHealth without solid, tested eMeasures?  Sure, having a CEHRT is grand, but what if you want to go one step further and author your own eMeasures using the MAT?  How to do you port them to popHealth?  How do you test them to make sure that the logic is behaving as you intended and how do you validate it using comprehensive test patient coverage for all data elements?

In an amazingly timed turn of events, Mitre, the ONC, and CMS have just published their next Clinical Quality Measure cornerstone project - Bonnie!

From Mitre / the ONC / CMS:

Meet Bonnie

Bonnie is a newly released testing tool that goes live Tuesday and will help you sort out electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) designed to support streamlined and efficient pre-testing of eCQMs used in the Meaningful Use program. This tool is designed for use by measure developers as part of their development process to provide specific feedback on the behavior of the CQM logic. Vendors may see a benefit when testing measure implementation into EHRs either by using a test deck built by a measure developer, or since Bonnie is an open source tool, by building its own patient test deck.

Bonnie allows measure developers to do the following:

• Independently load quality measure definitions from the Measure Authoring Tool (MAT)
• Convert measure definitions into a format allowing execution of the measure logic
• Rapidly craft synthetic test patients
• Provide expected results for the test patients and evaluate if the defined logic behaves as expected, or deviates from the intent of the measure

If you want to meet Bonnie, we are hosting two identical training sessions on April 7. We expect lots of interest, so register for the sessions now. 

10 -11 a.m. EDTsession https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/521285847 

or for the 2 -3 p.m. EDT session https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/129588895.

Bonnie is sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the ONC and has been developed by MITRE.