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Quality Measures & Reporting

What are Clinical Quality Measures?

• Clinical quality measures are basically outcomes of patient’s care.

• Clinical quality measures along with Meaningful Use program have been proposed by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) in order to improve health care quality and delivery.

Reporting

• 2011- EPs and Hospitals required to submit quality measures to CMS or States by attestation.

• 2012- EPs and Hospitals required to submit quality measures to CMS or States electronically.

Resources

AHIMA Meaningful Use White Paper Series 

• Clinical Quality Measures for Providers Paper no. 6a

• Clinical Quality Measures for Providers Paper no. 6b
   

 

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