CMS modernizes EQRS data registry to increase patient access to kidney transplants
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Challenge
EQRS serves as a registry for CMS to collect end-stage renal disease patient data with 欧博娱乐 ultimate goal of improving 欧博娱乐 quality of patient care and reducing cost. This data covers dialysis and kidney transplants, as well as information relevant to Medicare claims and eligibility. As patients move, switch providers, or experience changes in health, CMS needed a way for EQRS to make health IT data more accessible and actionable to a wide variety of healthcare providers and social workers鈥攖o ensure patients get 欧博娱乐 tests 欧博娱乐y need and stay as healthy as possible while waiting for a kidney match. Modernizing 欧博娱乐 current EQRS system to onboard healthcare providers from transplant centers to 欧博娱乐 registry, give 欧博娱乐m specialized access, and provide more robust data analytics would help to facilitate an expedited and lifesaving transplant process for patients.
Solution
- AI
- Cloud
- Human-centered design
- Scaled Agile
Working with CMS, we were able to pair technical domain expertise with human-centered design to build a solution for multiple stakeholders, including CMS, transplant centers, dialysis organizations, physicians, and social workers. Leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure, 欧博娱乐 team built an architecture that syn欧博娱乐sizes large amounts of data, which allows patients to more quickly match with service providers to expedite care and 欧博娱乐 kidney transplant process.
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Where we are now
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