Description
Challenges to some of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) quality incentive programs have cited provider burden and feasibility concerns related to electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs.) The move to use Health Level Seven International’s (HL7’s) Clinical Quality Language (CQL) for 2019 reporting allowed greater expressivity and more precise, unambiguous logic statements. However, retrieving data expressed in CQL is challenged by mapping requirements to access data entered and shared as part of healthcare delivery. This fact also limits sharing expressions with clinical decision support (CDS) artifacts to enable real-time workflow enhancements to improve performance. Panelists will describe how HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and emerging HL7 implementation guides can improve measure precision and expressivity and provide insights into expectations for more straightforward implementation. Panelists will use examples of eCQMs developed using these new standards and tested in FHIR Connectathons and in real world pilots.
Learning Objectives:
●Understand the value of FHIR quality measurement on clinical systems including the potential for clinical burden reduction.
●Describe how FHIR quality measurement can mitigate the current challenges of eCQM management.
●Learn how new FHIR implementation guides can be used to represent clinical concepts needed for eCQM development, data retrieval, and reporting.
Learning Objective: Understand the value of FHIR quality measurement on clinical systems including the potential for clinical burden reduction.
Describe how FHIR quality measurement can mitigate the current challenges of eCQM management.
Learn how new FHIR implementation guides can be used to represent clinical concepts needed for eCQM development, data retrieval, and reporting.
Authors:
Anne Smith (Presenter)
National Committee for Quality Assurance
Lisa Anderson (Presenter)
The Joint Commission
Robert Samples (Presenter)
ESAC, Inc.
Viet Nguyen (Presenter)
Stratametrics, LLC
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