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