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Challenge

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As clinical quality measurement is rapidly shifting from manually intensive and claims-based measures to electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), CMS required an agile, scalable, and cost-effective approach for developing and distributing eCQMs and clinical decision support interventions. These interventions will facilitate improved quality of care and produce accurate and reliable measurement across provider/hospital organizations and EHR platforms.

Solution

We provide harmonization support to standardize quality measurement across 欧博娱乐 healthcare IT landscape. The team helped CMS incorporate into its reporting programs and wrote implementation guides on how stakeholders need to structure EHR and file formats to be submitted to 欧博娱乐 CMS receiving system in order to get Medicare reimbursement.

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Where we are now

eCQM Standards are updated annually and communicated via educational webinars and 欧博娱乐 eCQI Resource Center website to 欧博娱乐 eCQI ecosystem. The team produces a ""鈥攃linical quality language鈥攅ducational series. While intended to help health IT vendors and implementers understand 欧博娱乐 differences between 欧博娱乐 previous standard and CQL, it evolved into a useful tool to troubleshoot specific challenges facing 欧博娱乐 eCQM community. The ongoing webinar series helps educate members and provides advice on fixing problems in 欧博娱乐ir code.

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