Interesting article in iHealthBeat on the electronic quality reporting. The article cites one of the biggest barriers to meeting the Stage 1 meaningful use criteria for government electronic health record incentives has been the collection of data for clinical quality measures (CQMs). And electronic quality reporting and the software rewriting it requires may be even more difficult in Stage 2.
Collection of quality data posing major challenge to meeting Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria
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