QualityNet Exchange Overview
The
purpose of QualityNet Exchange is to improve the quality of care for
Medicare beneficiaries through increased efficiencies in information
exchange. QualityNet Exchange accomplishes this by providing secure,
real-time communications and data exchange between healthcare
providers and Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) or End Stage
Renal Disease (ESRD) Networks.
Other features of
QualityNet Exchange include education and training opportunities
through online presentations and "Webinars" (seminars over
the Web), as well as online collaboration and information exchange
between healthcare providers and their QIOs or ESRD
Networks.
Quality Improvement
Organizations
QualityNet Exchange provides secure,
interactive applications for the exchange and input of privacy data
between healthcare providers and the Quality Improvement Organization
(QIO) responsible for their state. Healthcare providers participating
in this program have the capability to receive immediate data
feedback, featuring comparisons to regional and national norms, as
well as predetermined benchmarks. To complement the data feedback,
access to an "information warehouse" for topic-specific
quality improvement tools and clinical information to support quality
improvement projects will be provided.
End
Stage Renal Disease Networks
QualityNet Exchange
provides a secure channel for the exchange of End Stage Renal Disease
(ESRD) patient-related data between ESRD facilities and their
corresponding ESRD Network.
Dialysis facilities
participating in the program have the capability to transmit private
data directly to their corresponding ESRD Network and receive
feedback reports from their network in real-time.
Security
Security
is ensured through two layers of advanced data encryption technology.
The first layer utilizes TecSec's Constructive Key Management®
(CKM) to scramble data on a user's computer prior to transmission.
The second layer uses industry standard Public Key Infrastructure
(PKI) technology to encrypt the transmission to the QualityNet
Exchange servers. QualityNet Exchange has incorporated this
technology seamlessly into the application resulting in a simple,
user-friendly interface. Access to QualityNet Exchange requires the
use of a digital certificate and user token (a password protected
file with user credentials embedded).
| File Type | application/msword |
| File Title | QualityNet Exchange Overview |
| Author | SDPS |
| Last Modified By | CMS |
| File Modified | 2006-05-23 |
| File Created | 2006-05-23 |