Mary
As one person closely involved in the production of the various tools to
manage the QMAS reporting let me help here.
isoft have indeed never before been first to achieve conformance for their
QMAS product but Informatica who were awarded the contract to supply their
reporting software this year volunteered to pilot the conformance test pack
with CfH this time which is why they have achieved conformance first. The
conformance pack was released to all suppliers at the same time and
conformance "proper" started from 5th January and each supplier submits
their results to the test team at Exeter in their own time(this particular
conformance does not required a visist frpom the team just transmission of
messages!).
iSoft may have passed conformance BUT the changes to the QMAS website to
accept the new messages is not available for testing until 22nd January so
the iSoft practices cannot us the sofwtare until after that date when I
suspect ALL the suppliers will have caught up.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Alison Young
Data Quality Business Manager
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-----Original Message-----
From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mary Hawking
Sent: 08 January 2007 19:51
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Subject: Re: QOF - problems due to changing rules late in the year
In message <[log in to unmask]>,
John Clegg <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Mary - why are you not surprised that iSoft is first and Emis last?
>This is the first time that iSoft has EVER been first to my knowledge!
>
>As far as I know it is open to each supplier to book slots when they
>anticipate being ready. Due to a very happy alliance with Informatica,
>iSoft were ready with almost indecent speed - and that is why they were
>first!
Not surprised in the slightest!
I agree - a record - it must be the first time iSoft has been ready with
*anything* first!
Are you saying that the rule set was decided long before it was released
- and iSoft informed before any other supplier? Sounds like dubious practice
to me, if true.
I was suggesting that there was a political/vindictive element to allocating
slots for conformance testing - and asking what the position was in real
life!
iSoft has announced that it has passed conformity testing: could I ask
members of this list using iSoft systems whether they have the new software
installed - for all of iSoft's systems, and whether it has introduced large
changes in their QOF points?
The preliminary searches we have received have lost us 10/63 MH8 patients -
but not improved our points!
MaryH
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Mary Hawking
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