Research to Reform: Are we making progress? Measuring the adoption, meaningful use, and impacts of health IT September 15, 2009 Floyd Eisenberg, MD, MPH, FACP Senior Vice President, Health Information Technology National Quality Forum
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Structure » Quality Measure A “well-defined quality measure” is composed of a set of common data elements, encoded using standard taxonomies, structured logically into a standardized expression that can be shared and applied to patient data and reported 3
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data type code list concept QDS element diabetes 250.xx active Primary content experts Measure Developers
stored in database for reuse across measures and decision support QDS database data type code list concept Primary content experts Measure Developers
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measure data flow code list data type concept data flow code list data type concept data flow code list data type concept data flow code list data type concept data flow code list data type concept Primary content experts Measure Developers EHR, HIE, registry
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14 Structure » Active Project – 26 Measures CMS HITSP Project – Spring 2009 Standardize specifications for three (3) inpatient measure sets: 1.Venous Thromboembolism (VTE - 8) 2.Stroke (STK – 6) 3.Emergency Department (ED – 2) 4.Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) Ambulatory Measures (PQRI – 10) 5.Demonstration 6.Certification
15 Diabetes Coronary Artery Disease Moderately or Severely Depressed Left Ventricular Systolic Function ACE I PrescriptionARB PrescriptionACE I AllergyARB Allergy+OR- AND AND / OR Med ReasonEtc-- Build Measures From Individual QDS Elements: Adding Logic Structure » Quality Data Set
16 Progress 1.Update to measure grid for meaningful use –Recommended set of 29 measures –17 can be retooled for EHRs –Other measures 10 EHR utilization 2 Privacy and Security 2.Retooling beginning September 21, Review measure submission workflow HIT Standards Committee
Health Quality Measure Format (HQMF): eMeasure eMeasure Style Sheet (Human Readable) HL7 Standard Development
18 Connecting the Dots Clinical Guidelines Decision Support Quality Measures