Some programs would be able to continue using one of three current systems through 2029 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A growing number of hospitals are adopting and reporting electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM), according to the Joint Commission’s 2017 annual report. Last year, 470 Joint Commission-accredited ...

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 ...