Hospitals are still struggling to use their electronic health records to accurately report electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), according to a recent summary of findings published by the ...

Electronic clinical quality measures were created years ago as part of the federal EHR Incentive Programs, or meaningful use. At the time, eCQMs held the promise of automatically extracting the ...

Electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) to assess quality of cancer diagnosis could help improve diagnostic performance, according to a study published in JAMIA. Researchers developed and ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, yet again, has used its payment rules as a vehicle for advancing electronic health records and health information exchange, this time in its final ...

CHICAGO, Feb. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Apervita, the leading healthcare platform for value-based collaboration, today announced it is the first company to certify electronic clinical quality measures ...

A recent survey found that more than 90% of accountable care organizations (ACOs) have multiple EHRs. This could present issues as ACOs adopt electronic quality measures. Objectives: To assess the ...

On July 2, 2020 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance documents on the allowance of telehealth encounters for the Eligible Professional and Eligible Clinician ...

CMS is looking to modernize the ACO reporting process by mandating the use of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). However, accountable care organizations (ACOs) are concerned that the lack ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently issued new guidance for healthcare providers on documenting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures (“eCQMs”) for telehealth ...

Hospitals struggling to meet CMS’ electronic clinical quality measures, or eCQMs, will be relieved to know The Joint Commission is launching a new program called Pioneers in Quality to provide ...