Significant Practice Partner® Bulletin on CQM

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Significant Practice Partner® Bulletin on CQM

Post by Gavin Walker » Mon Jan 19, 2015 10:57 am

This topic delivers info concerning the present ability of Practice Partner® v11.0 as it concerns submission of the subsequent reports:
  • • Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS)
    • Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQM) reports
    • Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative (CPCI) reports
McKesson certified Practice Partner v11.0 with the Office of the National Coordinator for HealthCare IT (ONC) by means of a tool named Cypress. Cypress is one of the thorough and repeatable analysis tools utilized by ONC to certify Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and EHR components in computing performance metric reports and Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) for Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) lately specified the Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) file layout certified earlier with Cypress is not the arrangement they take. The QRDA layout that CMS takes is the joint layout for CQM, CPCI and PQRS. So, McKesson must create alterations to Practice Partner v11.0 to permit the mandatory layout that CMS will take for PQRS reporting.

McKesson is toiling carefully with CMS to comprehend the alterations required in Practice Partner v11.0 in order to deliver you the capability to report on PQRS measures via CEHRT. To date, McKesson has successfully enlisted QualityNet and McKesson is doing concentrated analysis and certification on the QRDA file layout to better guarantee that the alterations completed meet CMS requests.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Till this analysis is finished, you will not be able to present CQM information by electronic means.
  • CQM-Electronic - Needs Quality Net certification - in development
    PQRS - Needs Quality Net certification - in development
    CPCI - Needs a new business report to total measures at the site level. These statistics can then be utilized for manual submission to CMS - in development

There are 64 potential Clinical Quality Measure (CQM) reports mandatory for Stage 2 certification. These identical measures are acceptable for PQRS submission. Practice Partner currently delivers 38 of these reports, with additional five that will be published in January 2015, bringing the over-all amount to 43. These 43 measures ought to include the mainstream of primary treatment and specialty obligations. Further measures will be contemplated in the upcoming road map based on demand, but for now there are no further CQM reports scheduled to be inserted.

For practices participating in the CPCI plan, please keep an eye on upcoming announcements on how to demonstrate by hand for this incentive plan.

We will continue to deliver updates with McKesson's development as it concerns the above info.
Gavin Walker
Walker Tek Solutions, LLC
417-890-6777 x0
fax: 417-763-6386

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