[April 23, 2015] |
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Three IT Companies Embrace NCQA's eMeasure Pilot Testing Program
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) announced today that
three leading health care IT companies are participating in its
electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) pilot testing program,
eMeasure. All three companies work with electronic health record (EHR)
data. The program will test the ability to access and report data
generated by EHRs for quality measurement purposes.
The pilot program, which includes 10 measures from the Adult and Child
core set in the Meaningful Use program, serves as a starting point for
what will become NCQA's full eMeasure Certification program. The
eMeasure tests will validate measure-specific software code that
extracts data from EHRs. The program is modeled on NCQA's Measure
CertificationSM program that similarly validates software
code used to extract data, but from health insurance claims. In both
cases, NCQA validate the code by generating test data sets for each
measure.
NCQA's goal is to validate any electronic quality measures reporting
ability to calculate the Meaningful Use measures and ensure the
reliability of providers' eCQM data transferred to health plans for
Healthcare Effectiveness Data Information Set (HEDIS®) reporting. These
tests will ensure that providers' electronic health records data is
accurately extracted and sent to be integrated into the data sets most
often used to evaluate health care quality, HEDIS and Medicare Stars. IT
companies, health plans, registries and providers that use certified
software code are rewarded with reduced HEDIS audit requirements.
The three companies participating in the pilot program are:
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Wellcentive, Inc., Alpharetta, GA
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SpectraMedix SpectraMD USA, Inc., East Windsor, NJ
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eClinicalWorks, LLC, Westborough, MA
For more information on the eMeasure Certification program, contact the
NCQA Measure Validation Director, Anne Smith at 202-955-5154.
About NCQA
NCQA is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health
care quality. NCQA accredits and certifies a wide range of health care
organizations. It also recognizes clinicians and practices in key areas
of performance. NCQA is committed to providing health care quality
information for consumers, purchasers, health care providers and
researchers.
HEDIS® is a registered trademark of NCQA. NCQA Measure
CertificationSM is a service mark of NCQA. All rights
reserved.
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