Emerging HIT
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