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HITPC Workgroups to Hold a Hearing Nov. 30 on Clinical Data Quality Improvement
Jesse C. James | November 27, 2012
Garbage in, garbage out is a familiar adage to many who work with information: If you start with bad data you are going to end up with a bad conclusion. The same is certainly true for clinical data captured by providers who use health IT in an effort to help patients live healthier lives.
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Jesse C. James | October 26, 2012
CMS, ONC and other Federal agencies have been working to leverage emerging health information technology (health IT) in the Medicare and Medicaid programs to improve the quality of care that is available to their beneficiaries. In Meaningful Use Stage 2, a key component of this work is electronic reporting of quality data to CMS and the certification of electronic health record (EHR) technology to ensure the accurate capture, calculation, and reporting of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs).
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