Premier granted Meaningful Use Stage 3 Certification for antimicrobial use reporting
Premier Inc. has received certification for antimicrobial use (AU) and antimicrobial resistance (AR) (AUR) reporting under Meaningful Use Stage 3 (MU3).
Premier is one of the only companies to have earned official MU3 certification from the ONC Health IT Certification Program for the submission of AUR data to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
These new capabilities are available as part of Premier’s clinical surveillance solution, which has more than 1,100 hospital and health system users. Powered by TheraDoc, the real-time solution enables clinicians to proactively identify patients at-risk for hospital-acquired infections, harmful drug interactions; and other adverse events, as well as meet regulatory reporting compliance and improve medication management to reduce costs and support clinical initiatives.
To ensure quality and timely data submission, Premier’s AUR capabilities provide clinicians detailed reviews of data for validation prior to NHSN submission, automated reporting to meet deadlines and get credit for MU3, as well as support efforts to improve antimicrobial stewardship. The goal for AU reporting is to facilitate risk adjusted inter- and intra-facility benchmarking of antimicrobial usage, as well as to evaluate trends of antimicrobial usage over time at the facility and national levels.
“Reducing antimicrobial resistance is a top priority for our hospital and health system members,” said Michelle Allen, vice president of clinical surveillance operations. “
A new option to meet public health registry reporting under MU3 incentive payments is AUR submission to the NHSN. This national initiative provides local and regional benchmarks to target antimicrobial stewardship efforts. Vendor certification is a federal requirement for healthcare facility reporting of AUR-MU3 data. To qualify for the 2017 MU3 incentive payment, 90 days of consecutive AUR data must be submitted to the NHSN before the Jan. 31, 2018 deadline. h
