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OmniQ - Custom Measures

OmniQ

dQM - Custom Measures

Author and Execute Custom Digital Measures

OmniQ dQM - Custom Measures enables organizations to author and operationalize custom digital measures, based on their own business, clinical and operational and jurisdictional requirements, including state programs and internal value-based initiatives.

Built on the same FIHIR and CQL-based, computable framework used for regulated quality programs. dQM - Custom Measures extends the same computable, standards-based approach that supports regulated quality programs, without reinventing infrastructure or logic.

To better align with value-based care goals, Payers can use the same unified quality ecosystem to support health equity initiatives, reduce avoidable costs, improve member and population health outcomes and respond to other jurisdictional initiatives, without creating new measurement silos.

Consistent measurement and population logic is applied directly to aligned, semantically normalized data, enabling interpretability and traceability for every initiative.

Custom measures for programs such as Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), medication adherence, Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Total Cost of Care (TCoC), and state-directed initiatives become possible within the same computable quality environment.

The Cost of Custom Measures

Research published in JAMA Network Open has shown that reporting on quality measures, especially when reliant on manual chart abstraction, imposes significant administrative burden and real costs on clinical practices and care teams1. The lack of standardization in custom quality measures creates a significant financial strain and operational bottlenecks for Payers seeking to drive high-value care. Unlike HEDIS®, custom measures lack uniform definitions; meaning Payers must often invent their own logic, technical specifications and high-touch chart abstraction from fragmented systems.

This process is further impacted by low data quality that impacts work decisions. Without a unified digital infrastructure, payers remain trapped in a high-cost environment where technical debt and data silos prevent the real-time visibility necessary to scale value-based outcomes.

1Narla AV, et al. Physician Practice Stress and Administrative Costs Associated With Quality Reporting, JAMA Network Open. PMID: 34891629.

What dQM - Custom Measures Makes Possible

The solution extends the capabilities of dQM Measures for HEDIS to include custom measure authoring and execution within the same computable quality ecosystem without recreating workflows and technical effort.

With OmniQ dQM - Custom Measures, organizations can:

Author Custom Measures to Support Value-based Care

Organizations can design, author, and execute computable, machine-readable digital measures tailored to internal priorities, state programs, strategic innovation and value-based care initiatives. Built on FHIR and CQL, custom logic is applied directly to semantically aligned data, producing explainable, traceable results without manual abstraction or fragmented tooling.
 

Custom measures are authored, executed, governed and monitored within the same rigor and transparency as regulated programs.
Support Flexibility and Innovation

dQM -Custom Measures extends the capabilities of Measures for HEDIS, using the same computable quality layer. This enables consistent digital measurement across internal programs, partner requirements, and emerging care models. Organizations can innovate using trusted quality data, and complete real-time quality checks without fragmenting their quality ecosystem by using one standards-based measurement foundation across all initiatives.

Future-forward custom measures on a unified compatible data ecosystem
Be Proactive, Scale and Evolve

dQM - Custom Measures enables organizations to pilot, refine, and operationalize measurements relevant to their business and region/state of operation. The months-long process of building one custom quality measure is reduced to weeks with the power of the FHIR and CQL engine, which harmonizes clinical logic and data sharing. As programs expand or evolve, computable logic scales without rework or exponential cost, shifting unique quality programs from reactive and delayed to preemptive.

Launch new initiatives and evaluate impact without rebuilding measurement infrastructure.
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 "Smile's steadfast dedication to open standards perfectly aligns with MiHIN’s unwavering drive to establish a forward-looking and market-responsive HIE, facilitating the seamless integration of clean, actionable data, real-time quality measures, point-of-care clinical insights, and more." 
Dr. Tim PletcherExecutive Director of MiHIN