Recent updates to the Hospital Quality Improvement Platform (HQIP) have made it even more useful for member hospitals. HQIP now includes:
- Statewide 2023 inpatient, emergency department, and ambulatory surgery data for patient-level administrative encounters
- Procedure-specific readmission reports (e.g., Total Hip Arthroplasty and/or Total Knee Arthroplasty and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft) based on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Procedure-Specific Readmission Measure methodology
- Minor fixes to readmission reports, as well as modifications to add disposition group and source route as filters/stratified variables
- Implementation of codes exempt from “present on admission” (POA) categorization; during the upload and processing phase, the system will identify exempt codes as defined by CMS and fill in POA = “E.”
Future HQIP updates include:
- A new behavioral health report
- Automated hospital system reporting to streamline comparisons of measure outcomes across network hospitals
- Increased transparency on report methodology, including documentation of flagging/calculation methodologies
- Streamlined reporting in which multiple reports will be consolidated into one, with filters to select each encounter type or mix
- More opportunities for hospitals to dive deeper into their data
- An update to the Severe Maternal Morbidity and Mortality report, which will instead follow the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Maternal Health Indicator Report
For more information about HQIP and to join the nearly 300 participating hospitals (40 of which joined in the first quarter of 2025), visit the HQI website or email Scott Masten, vice president, performance analytics.
