Clinical quality measures, or CQMs, are tools that help measure and track quality of health care services provided by eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) within our health care system. These measures use data associated with providers’ ability to deliver high-quality care or relate to long term goals for quality health care. CQMs measure many aspects of patient care including:

• health outcomes
• clinical processes
• patient safety
• efficient use of health care resources
• care coordination
• patient engagements
• population and public health
• adherence to clinical guidelines

Measuring and reporting CQMs helps to ensure that our health care system is delivering effective, safe, efficient, patient-centered, equitable, and timely care.

To participate in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs and receive an incentive payment, providers are required to submit CQM data from certified EHR technology.(1)

The Certified Health IT Product List (CHPL) is the authoritative and comprehensive listing of Health IT certified through the ONC Health IT Certification Program.

Health IT Modules are listed on the CHPL after they have been successfully tested by an Accredited Testing Laboratory (ATL) and certified by an ONC Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB). Providers and hospitals can use the CHPL to identify the certified Health IT Modules they use and, if necessary generate the CMS EHR Certification ID required for use in Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services EHR Incentive Programs.(2)

CHPL allows to access the complete listings of Certified Health Information Technology, including the 2011 edition, the 2014 edition, or a combination of the 2011 and 2014 edition.

You can get the whole report here: http://oncchpl.force.com/ehrcert/DownloadReport

We processed the report to get the list of vendors with highest number of certified clinical quality measures.

Table: EHRs with number of clinical quality measures certified(CQMs Certified) in descending order.

Here is the full processed list:  Download

Stay tuned, and feel free to drop me a line at nadeem@trialx.com.

References:

1. https://www.cms.gov/regulations-and-guidance/legislation/ehrincentiveprograms/clinicalqualitymeasures.html
2. https://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/certified-health-it-product-list-chpl