Meaningful Use Reporting Quality Measures Directly from the EHR

Tuesday, July 12, 2011, noon - 1:00 pm CT

The Meaningful Use clinical quality measures have established a goal for hospitals to be able to electronically capture and calculate the associated 15 hospital quality measures directly from data in their electronic health record (EHR) systems. And ideally, data elements should be standardized across multiple facilities.

This presentation highlights how-to findings from a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant-funded project - the Quality through EHR Standardization and Technology (QUEST) Project, rural HIT collaboration for meaningful use. This project is not simply about going through the steps to achieve that goal - it is about using the data captured in the electronic patient record to improve patient safety, improve outcomes of care, and achieve reductions in health care costs.

While the project is focused on hospitals only, the process (i.e., capturing current environment, work flow and data capture) can be used in all settings.

Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Identify a process for capturing the quality-data gaps which exist in an electronic health record (EHR) system relative to the quality data requirements for achieving selected CMS meaningful use criteria.
• Understand the type of variations in documentation of data within the EHR that impact its reliability and utility as a source for direct quality reporting.
• Discover an approach for correcting the gaps in data content and/or format to ensure the capture of quality data and enable direct quality reporting from the EHR system.

Who should attend

Administrators, CEOs, CIOs/IT staff, DoN/nursing staff, physician/providers, project managers, and others with responsibilities related to staffing.

Speaker

Brooke Palkie, is assistant professor in the Health Informatics and Information Management Department at the College of St. Scholastica, with a focus in quality management and clinical classifications and reimbursement. She is an American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer for medical diagnosis and procedure codes, and an identified quality metrics/HIIM subject matter expert for QUEST.

Recording cost

Free for clinics and hospitals with a Signed Letter of Agreement (enter code in registration form - if you have an SLA and do not have a code, please contact info@khareach.org). $30 per line for other participants.

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