SHARECOR Partners with Quantros, Inc. to Facilitate Core Measures and Regulatory Reporting in Louisiana Hospitals

Boston, MA, January 21, 2010 --(PR.com)-- SHARECOR has entered into a partnership with Quantros®, a leading provider of safety and quality software and business intelligence solutions for the healthcare industry, to offer Quantros RRM™ to their member hospitals.

Quantros RRM™ is a single, integrated system designed to optimize organizations’ core measure reporting and performance improvement initiatives. Quantros RRM streamlines and simplifies reporting to national and state quality initiatives, including The Joint Commission (TJC), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the American College of Cardiology (ACC) National Cardiac Data Registry and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Registry (STS). RRM also supports a number of state reporting initiatives, including California’s OSHPD-CCORP, IHA of Illinois, Florida’s AHCA programs and Georgia’s GHA programs. As a certified TJC Performance Measurement System vendor, Quantros is the only vendor in the industry with zero audit points.

“This system can help our member hospitals accomplish their mission of providing the highest quality of care to their patients by simplifying the task of data reporting,” said John Matessino, president and CEO of the Louisiana Hospital Association.

SHARECOR member hospitals, like hospitals across the country, are under increasing pressure to report quality data to both mandated and voluntary initiatives. RRM, used by over 750 hospitals, will facilitate data collection, analysis and reporting to support the quality improvement efforts of SHARECOR hospitals.

“We are honored to be afforded the opportunity to work with the member hospitals of SHARECOR,” said Dr. Sanjaya Kumar, President and Chief Medical Officer of Quantros. “Providing safe, effective, quality-driven patient care is a priority for SHARECOR hospitals. It is also our core mission and we actively look to further it through relationships such as this one.”

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Quantros is a leading software and services provider for the healthcare industry in areas of safety and risk management, quality and performance improvement, accreditation and compliance, real-time surveillance and centralized decision support.