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Hello and welcome everyone to our May MMS Info Session. These sessions are offered under the CMS Measures Management contract led by Battelle. I am Kate Buchanan and I support the education and outreach efforts on this project. Today’s session is on the newly launched CMS MMS Hub. These Info Sessions are part of an ongoing effort to engage measure developers and other stakeholders in quality measurement topics. Among the stakeholder engagement activities, we conduct our annual public webinars on high-priority CMS topics. So I will now turn it over to my colleague, Kim O’Brien, to introduce the MMS Hub. Kim? Thank you, Kate. As Kate said, I’m Kim O’Brien. I am the task lead for the Hub along with Kathy Lesh, and today we want to make sure that we are covering a few things with you. First of all, the agenda will be to discuss the modernization of the website, where you can find the MMS Blueprint content. Kathy will conduct a live demonstration. We will have questions and then a wrap-up. So the learning objectives are one, we want to make sure that you’re aware there is a CMS MMS Hub, where to find it, how the content is organized and where you can find the area for public and comments for technical expert panel (TEP) opportunities and updates to the Hub. It is now available. We launched on May 24th. It transforms the Blueprint into a comprehensive user-friendly website and it integrates the Blueprint content from the previous Measures Management website, and this we are hoping is a more streamlined experience. Some of the key features, we’ll be able to have rolling updates. The content for the Blueprint will be extremely interactive. You will be able to see news and events as they are available, and you’ll be able to quickly access stakeholder opportunities from the Hub. With that I will turn it over to my colleague, Kathy Lesh, for a demo. Thank you, Kim, and welcome to the new Measures Management System (MMS) Hub. We’re really excited to show this to you, but let’s just start with the homepage. The upper and lower banners—upper banner and lower banner and the drop-downs always remain on every page, and you can return to the homepage at any time by just clicking this part right here. We’re working to enhance our search so that you’ll be able to search for Blueprint-specific content as we’re tagging the content with a Blueprint tag. In this dark blue area we have links to the main Blueprint content, which is the measure lifecycle. And then we have the supplemental materials and the templates. There are links to the supplemental materials and templates throughout the site. This amber link is meant primarily for those less familiar with the MMS and Blueprint, and it takes you to an area under about quality measurement. This “get started” section has some FAQs. These are meant for people wanting to learn more about quality measures and quality measurement. This is an area we plan to enhance. The page has two links to the “get involved in measure development.” Now this “get involved” section, which you can also get to from up here…. ...is meant primarily for non-measure developers, and this section provides information about different ways to get involved in the quality measure lifecycle and why you might want to get involved. These tiles correspond to the drop-downs. For the technical expert panels (TEPs) and public comments sections there’s an overview section. Some frequently asked questions (FAQs) and then tabs to current public comment opportunities and summaries of past public comment. Similarly, the TEPs has the overview section with some FAQs, the current TEP opportunities and then updates to established TEPs. The “Call for Measures” page is set up a little different. We’re just talking here about annual calls. These are the usual Calls for Measures; however, if we do get specific Calls for Measures, we can add those if needed. The other types of involvement discusses focus groups, working groups, interviews, virtual communities in the Measure Collaboration (MC) Workspace. The news and events, and you can also get to that from the homepage. I can go back here and this part on the homepage always has featured news and events which can change frequently, and you get to the “all news and events” the same place you can get here. You can add events to your calendar in our five different options, and then you click on the titles to get more information about the event or the news item. Okay, let’s go back to the homepage. These tiles here are links to areas that we anticipate will be the most used; however, these may change over time based on analytics of actual use. We will be regularly reviewing the site statistics. We’ve worked to minimize scrolling, so each page has this “return to top.” Moving to the right in the “about quality measurement” section you again see this link to the “get started with quality measures,” and underneath are roles for measure development and types of measures. I’d like to point out some navigation links while I’m here. In the main area you’re on has a blue underline. Let me get back over here. So you see that dark blue underline. It tells you that you’re in the “new measures” section, and then there’s the more detailed section. And I’ll point out some other navigations as we go along. We do have—let me go back over here. We do have hover-over links with definitions, and those are indicated by dotted lines. We have internal links which are solid blue lines, and then external links are solid blue lines and they have this external link icon. “Types of measures” provides the Blueprint definition and links to the supplemental materials for the special types of measures, so eCQMs, cost and resource use measures and so on. The third main area under quality measurement is quality measurement at CMS. And this first area is goals, CMS goals and priorities. Now you’ll note that we’ve got tabs here that are going to different sections, and some have subpages on the left navigation. So again, another navigation hint. You’re in the CMS goals and priorities overview, Meaningful Measures overview, and you can tell that again because this has a dark blue line above it. And then you know you’re in the overview because there’s this dark blue line right in front of it. The next link over here is links to the majority of the CMS quality incentive programs and the Compare site. This other one “measure development principles,” you’ll see one thing we try to do to help scrolling is we have these ions so that it takes up less real estate. So when you’re looking for the technical principles, you just click on the “plus” sign. If you want to get rid of that, then you just hit the “dash.” The last area under this is “measure development theory” where we talk about the Donabedian model. So let’s move over to “tools and resources.” As previously mentioned, the supplemental materials and templates remain downloadable PDF documents. We’ve updated all of the supplemental materials except for the risk adjustment and quality measurement, which is undergoing review, but what we did do with this document is update it with links to the Hub. We also have a link to the Blueprint QuickStart over here. We also have a link to the QuickStart in the educational materials. Again, the templates remain downloadable versions, and we did update all of the templates and we added one, and that’s a request for call for measure testing volunteers templates. This is new. We don’t have an area set up on the Hub yet for this, because we don’t have any requests, but we will when the time comes. Educational resources has links to the different MMS presentations and CMS documents, such as the patient and family engagement toolkit. And the tools and resources overview is broken down into MMS tools and resources, CMS tools and resources and additional tools and resources, and this is not an exhaustive list but rather a sample of tools and resources. Now back to the measure lifecycle. Those familiar with the Blueprint, note we moved stakeholder engagement out from under measure conceptualization, because it actually occurs throughout the lifecycle. And because it occurs throughout the lifecycle, we are not calling it a “stage.” We’ve updated the measure lifecycle graphic, and it’s here on the measure lifecycle overview page. And then it’s on the overview page of all the different stages. It’s interactive and by clicking the box, it will take you right to the overview page of that stage. I’m not going to click through all of them. I’m going to just go through one to give you an example. So while we’re in “measure specifications,” I want to show you a little bit more. You’ve got all the tabs here, and we’ll go into “develop specifications,” and again there’s the left navigation here. You can see all the main sections of the measure specification, what used to be one chapter. We hope this makes your navigation much easier than attempting to do a control F in a PDF document. Another example is in measure testing, and testing and measure evaluation criteria. Again, you have the tabs on the top and the tabs on the left side. This one has a sub-subheading under scientific acceptability, so again you can see all of the sections of measure testing right there in front of you, and it makes it easier to go back and forth to the different sections. My last stop is to go down to the bottom and the “contact us” which is always here for your convenience. You can also get to it from the homepage in this blue, dark blue area. We really do want to hear from you. Please tell us what you like, tell us what you don’t like. Is there something that you can’t find? Please let us know. We really want to see and hear from you, and thank you for your time and attention and I’ll pass it back to Kim. Thank you. Thank you, Kathy, for that demo. It was great. We hope that this helps sort of reiterate what our goals originally for the MMS Hub were and what they will be going forward, and that is just to be the primary source for quality measurement, education and engagement, to modernize and make it a little more technical to quote what Kathy said, “than using the PDF document,” to better connect with you and families and others with opportunities to participate in the process. And then also evolve and be responsive to stakeholders’ changing needs. And with that, we definitely thank you, and for any questions feel free to email us at: MMSsupport@battelle.org Wonderful. Thank you so much, Kim. So here we have our key points of contact. Melissa Gross is our CMS Lead, and then we’ve heard from both Kathy and Kim today. Their emails addresses and phone numbers are on here. We move to the next slide. Our April MMS Info Session on the eCQI Resource Center updates is now available on YouTube, as is the CMS MMS public webinar “Rural Health: How CMS Initiatives Improve the Way We Measure and Address Gaps in Care.” I did want to point everyone’s attention to the upcoming MMS Info Session on the Cascade of Measures. It will be from 3:00-4:00 pm ET on June 29th. And then we can move on to the next slide. So I want to thank everyone for their time, for joining us today and we hope you have a good rest of your afternoon. Thank you, all.