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popHealth is an open source software tool that generates population health reporting for clinical quality measures for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Meaningful Use program. popHealth integrates with a provider's electronic health record (EHR) to produce summary quality measures on the provider's patient population.
The main components of meaningful use are: The use of a certified EHR in a meaningful manner, such as e-prescribing. The use of certified EHR technology for electronic exchange of health information to improve quality of health care. The use of certified EHR technology to submit clinical quality and other measures.
The 90 HEDIS measures are divided into six "domains of care": [5] [6] Effectiveness of Care; Access/Availability of Care; Experience of Care; Utilization and Relative Resource Use; Health Plan Descriptive Information; Measures Collected Using Electronic Clinical Data Systems; Measures are added, deleted, and revised annually.
The main components of meaningful use are: The use of a certified EHR in a meaningful manner, such as e-prescribing. The use of certified EHR technology for the electronic exchange of health information to improve the quality of health care. The use of certified EHR technology to submit clinical quality and other measures.
In 2015 CMS identified 254 quality measures for which providers may choose to submit data. The measures map to U.S. National Quality Standard (NQS) health care quality domains: [4] Communication and Care Coordination; Community/Population Health; Effective Clinical Care; Efficiency and Cost Reduction; Patient Safety
Healthgrades officials also noted that a “lack of access to the highest quality care poses a major challenge to informed healthcare decision making for half of the U.S. population.”
The current focus of the HL7 CDS WG is to build on the Clinical Quality Language (CQL). [7] The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it plans to use CQL for the specification of Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs). [8]
A nursing care component is defined as a cluster of elements that represents a unique pattern of clinical care nursing practice; namely, Health Behavioral, Functional, Physiological, and Psychological. Nursing Diagnoses: A clinical judgment about the healthcare consumer's response to actual or potential health conditions or needs.