CDC Report: Electronic Clinical Quality Data Invaluable to Public Health Reporting

Government Health IT writes: The use of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) for reporting data will be “invaluable” for monitoring numerous clinical conditions, according to research published in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidly and Mortality Weekly Report.The report used eCQM data that was submitted by 63,000 health care providers to the Medicare Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program to be analyzed to assess progress in achieving blood pressure control among their patients with hypertension. It found that 62 percent of patients with hypertension achieved controlled blood pressure throughout three reporting years of 2011-2013.  Read more