Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Healthcare Quality Analytics and Reporting
Atlas Research and affiliate CVP played an important role in helping modernize the Healthcare Quality Analytics and Reporting (HCQAR) for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Our innovative approach to this project has been pivotal in helping CMS transform healthcare quality reporting, aligning with the needs of the 21st century.
In our journey with CMS, which spanned from December 2016 to December 2021, we focused on replacing outdated technology and enhancing the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of healthcare quality reporting. At the heart of our strategy was the development of a state-of-the-art data lake and analytics platform hosted in the cloud. This platform is designed to collect, aggregate, analyze, and generate comprehensive reports for an extensive network of 1.9 million healthcare providers.
Our efforts have significantly advanced CMS's capabilities in calculating hospital Part B reimbursements and boosted the overall quality of data analysis, visualization, and reporting across various aspects of healthcare delivery, policy-making, and research. Importantly, these improvements have directly contributed to enhancing the quality of care for beneficiaries.
The CMS HCQAR project coordinated more than a dozen Agile software development teams and collaborated across six distinct CMS business lines and 67 external organizations. The project's scope encompassed more than 3,000 analytics programs, applications, systems, and platforms, impacting the healthcare quality received by 60 million beneficiaries. In our quest to deliver excellence, Baldr adopted the FAIR data sharing principles to develop, modernize, and optimize the healthcare quality data platform.
We successfully migrated vast amounts of data to the cloud for analytic processing, integrating data from 60 diverse sources, encompassing 60 billion records representing 11,000 healthcare entities. Our management of the Apache Hadoop framework, the 350TB distributed file system, the SAS Viya Application Server, SAS Access for Hadoop software, and the data integration architecture, not to mention fulfilling historical data archiving and retention requirements, exemplifies our dedication to leveraging technology for enhancing healthcare quality and efficiency, benefiting millions of American citizens and ensuring judicious use of taxpayer dollars in the $700 billion+ Medicare program.
