Fierce Healthcare writes: Hospitals are still struggling to use their electronic health records to accurately report electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), according to a recent summary of findings published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from a 2015 validation pilot. CMS conducted a hospital inpatient quality reporting (IQR) validation pilot project, in the spring and summer of 2015 with 29 hospitals, to better understand how EHRs vary for supporting eCQM reporting.
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