Named for the second year, Robin Kaiser, SoftDev’s President and CEO, is again on the FedHealthIT100 List for 2020. The FedHealthIT100 honors those individuals recognized for driving change and advancement in the Federal Health Information Technology and Consulting Market. Nominated and chosen by their peers, some common themes among those who were selected include the desire and willingness to challenge conventional wisdom, to go above and beyond, to drive innovation, and to give back to the larger Federal Health IT and Consulting community. Ms. Kaiser sits among industry leaders such as Kate Goodrich, MD, MHS, Director of CCSQ and Chief Medical Officer for CMS; Jose Arrieta, CIO, HHS; and Shannon Sartin, Former Executive Director USDS, CMS.  

Ms. Kaiser has continuously served the End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) community for over 20 years. With focus on improving the quality of ESRD data and, therefore, enhancing the ESRD beneficiary experience, Ms. Kaiser has worked diligently across numerous CMS initiatives. SoftDev congratulates Ms. Kaiser and all of the FedHealthIT Top 100. For the full list of honorees, visit https://www.fedhealthit.com/2019/11/the-2020fedhealthit100-2/.  

SoftDev proudly announced today that the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded SoftDev the Medical Expenditure Survey Household Component (MEPS-HC) Health Policy Booklet Abstraction task order. As prime contractor on this 16-month contract, SoftDev will support activities to develop an abstraction tool and database of health insurance policy information abstracted from Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) and other policy documents collected from households participating in the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Survey. Data on health insurance coverage generosity from this file will be useable alone or in conjunction with other MEPS files for different analytic purposes.  For example, the analyst may enhance their research by linking to person characteristics or data identifying private insurance coverages held and individuals’ experiences with plans.

SoftDev is excited to lead this effort not only because it allows us to work with AHRQ, an influential Federal health research agency, but also because the project will demonstrate yet another avenue where data can be utilized to better inform decision-makers regarding our healthcare system. We look forward to providing AHRQ with a sound, insightful solution that reflects our culture of delivering cost-effective, high-quality work. “As always, SoftDev is just so proud to be chosen by AHRQ to do this work. We believe strongly that our team and our solution will deliver the needed data in the best possible format so that AHRQ can do their good work,” said Robin Kaiser, President at SoftDev.

Founded in 1999, SoftDev a leading healthcare IT company. The firm is an SBA-certified HUBZone and Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business (EDWOSB).

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services selected SoftDev as a Prime awardee of the Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractor. This designation will allow NQIICs to bid on Task Orders over the next five years.  As a Prime NQIIC awardee partnering with other Quality Improvement contractors under the new CMS Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract mechanism to support quality improvement efforts, each NQIIC may serve as:

• Quality Improvement Experts
• Facilitators/change agents for healthcare transformation by achieving bold aims at a high value
• Innovators of quality improvement

As a NQIIC awardee, SoftDev, has demonstrated healthcare quality improvement expertise. Services supported by some of the NQIIC awardees may include:

• Provide direct technical assistance in specific areas of healthcare quality improvement (e.g., patient safety, opioid misuse, nursing home quality, etc.)
• Seek and gain commitments from patients, providers and stakeholders to achieve aims
• Use a Human Centered Design that involves teaming with patient and family members to improve healthcare processes and outcomes.
• Focused on helping providers and healthcare organizations to achieve quantitative results for improved outcomes, lower costs, better care, less provider burden, greater transparency and more.
• Supporting a diverse array of organizations and populations, including: rural providers, vulnerable beneficiaries, clinical practices, hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis facilities and more.
• Support providers in efficient use of Health Information Technology and interoperability
• Serve as backbone organizations to form and engage Community Coalitions
• Convene and support Learning and Action Networks (LANs)

SoftDev proudly announced today that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded SoftDev its first task order on the critical Measure Instrument Development Support (MIDS) IDIQ, the Alignment of Quality and Public Reporting Programs and Websites Support. As the prime contractor on this 5-year effort, SoftDev will support ongoing efforts by CMS to align and advance existing quality and public reporting programs and to support the Agency’s efforts to improve and bring synergy to the websites that publicly report information on the quality of hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis facilities, physicians and other practitioners, and home health agencies. By spearheading this effort, SoftDev will continue to demonstrate our commitment to the meaningful delivery of data to CMS, its stakeholders, providers, beneficiaries, and families. We will also expand our portfolio of capabilities to support quality measurement efforts of CMS across settings and programs, serving to maximize the positive impacts to the quality and value of healthcare. “SoftDev is incredibly proud of the team and solution we assembled to execute this project successfully for CMS and are already hard at work. As a new MIDS prime, we are honored to receive this award and work closely with CMS, our partners, and stakeholders,” said Robin Kaiser, President at SoftDev.

Founded in 1999, SoftDev a leading healthcare IT company. The firm is an SBA-certified HUBZone and Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business (EDWOSB).