Electronic Clinical Quality Measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended through March 13 the deadline for eligible hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting and/or Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program to submit electronic Clinical Quality Measure data for the…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and National Library of Medicine Friday published an addendum to the 2016 electronic clinical quality measure specifications. The addendum updates the ICD-10 value sets for electronic reporting of eCQMs for the 2017 performance year in the…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released worksheets to help eligible hospitals and professionals in Modified Stage 2 of the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program log their meaningful use measures for calendar year 2016.
In response to stakeholder feedback and because of the large volume of changes introduced into ICD-10 in fiscal year 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the National Library of Medicine recently announced that they will update all impacted electronic clinical quality…
AHA commissioned a study to investigate hospital experiences with implementation of meaningful use stage 1 electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). The study describes the experience with and impact of eCQM implementation in four hospitals.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued guidance to help clarify its policy regarding requests for hardship exemptions from electronic clinical quality measure reporting for calendar year 2016.
On Nov. 1, the CMS released the calendar year 2017 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center final rule.
In today’s outpatient prospective payment system final rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sets the requirements for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals to attest to meaningful use of electronic health records in the coming years. CMS finalizes a 90-day reporting…
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Statement on ONC Health IT Certification Program
Ashley Thompson
Senior Vice President
Public Policy Analysis and Development
American Hospital Association