Collaborative for Performance Measure Integration with EHR Systems
The Collaborative for Performance Measure Integration with EHR Systems (Collaborative), initiated in 2006, is co-sponsored by the American Medical Association, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (ERHA), and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
Measure development organizations such as the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement and the NCQA have developed performance measures designed to assist physicians in improving the quality of patient care delivered in the ambulatory environment and EHR vendors are working to incorporate performance measure functionality into EHR products.
The Collaborative is comprised of a group of stakeholders—performance measure developers, EHR vendors, expert EHR users, national quality improvement organizations and technical experts in physician performance measurement and quality improvement—who have a shared goal of facilitating the integration of performance measures with EHR systems.
For more information about this initiative see the following documents:
April 30, 2009
Meeting materials
Presentations
CMS Demonstrations Utilizing Measures and EHRS
Jody Blatt
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI): Testing of an EHR Reporting Option
Daniel H. Green, MD, FACOG
A Moderated Discussion On Defining "Meaningful Use" in Relation to Quality Measures and Using Performance Data
Jonathan S. Einbinder, MD, MPH
Meaningful Use vis-à-vis the Collaborative’s Work: A Discussion Among Collaborative Members About it's Focus for 2009 & 2010 and Possible Future Topics
Karen Kmetik, PhD
Jacob Reider, MD
Performance Measure Definitions: An Example of Utilizing and Extending the Collaborative's HQMF for Measure Definitions
Aaron Cutshall, MSCIS