Plymouth Meeting, PA (PRWEB) July 30, 2012

ActiveStrategy, Inc., a leading provider of strategy and performance management software and consulting services, today announced the general availability of the ActiveStrategy iRound Patient Satisfaction Solution (iRound PSS), the first system that enables hospitals to directly address new Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) guidelines recently implemented by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Under the new guidelines, a growing percentage of a hospitals reimbursement dollars are contingent upon the hospitals performance in areas including patient safety, quality, efficiency, and patient satisfaction.

Jeffrey Bunting, Founder and President of ActiveStrategy, noted that the amount of reimbursement dollars at risk under VBP is significant for hospitals and health systems of all sizes. Even small health systems have estimated that the new guidelines could put at least $ 1 million at risk by 2013 and put at least double that amount in jeopardy by 2017, said Bunting.

To make and sustain improvements in these key areas, hospitals conduct and record numerous safety, quality, and compliance observations, as well as various surveys of patients, families, and employees. Most hospitals conduct these types of surveys and observations using paper-based forms that are later entered into spreadsheets and databases, a time consuming and error-prone process. ActiveStrategy iRound, first introduced in 2010 and now in use at leading hospitals and health systems across the country, lets hospitals conduct all kinds of surveys and forms on iPhones, iPads, or iPod touch devices. The forms can be easily modified by nurse managers, quality and performance improvement teams, and other non-technical staff, and then sent wirelessly to the Apple devices of iRound users anywhere in the hospital or system. Once forms are completed, the data is again wirelessly and securely transmitted, where it can be viewed, analyzed, and acted upon instantly.

The new iRound PSS combines the automated rounding technology of ActiveStrategy iRound with a targeted performance improvement knowledge transfer program, as well as ASE for iRound, which is a special version of ActiveStrategy Enterprise