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ArticleJAMIA open2019

Challenges to electronic clinical quality measurement using third-party platforms in primary care practices: the healthy hearts in the heartland experience.

Faraz S Ahmad, Luke V Rasmussen, Stephen D Persell, Joshua E Richardson, David T Liss, Pauline Kenly, Isabel Chung, Dustin D French, Theresa L Walunas, Andy Schriever and 1 more

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Article in JAMIA open, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Faraz S AhmadDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2613-2541
Luke V RasmussenDivision of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Stephen D PersellDivision of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Joshua E RichardsonRTI International, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
David T LissDivision of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Pauline KenlyThe Center for Health Information Partnerships (CHiP), Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Isabel ChungThe Center for Health Information Partnerships (CHiP), Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Dustin D FrenchDepartment of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Theresa L WalunasThe Center for Health Information Partnerships (CHiP), Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Andy SchrieverApertiva, Inc, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Abel N KhoThe Center for Health Information Partnerships (CHiP), Institute of Public Health & Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Funding

Research Design, Data, and Analytics CoreP30DK092949 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Ronald T. Ackermann, MARSHALL H CHIN · 2011 to 2026
$10.0M
NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK092949
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Third-party platforms have emerged to support small primary care practices for calculating and reporting electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) for federal programs like The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) and Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Yet little is known about the capabilities and limitations of electronic health record systems (EHRs) to enable data access for these programs. We connected 116 small- to medium-sized practices with seven different EHRs to popHealth, an open-source eCQM platform. We identified the prevalence of following problems with eCQM data for data extraction in seven different EHRs: (1) Lack of coded data in five of seven; (2) Incorrectly categorized data in four of seven; (3) Isosemantic data (data within the incorrect context) in four of seven; (4) Coding that could not be directly evaluated in six of seven; (5) Errors in date assignment and labeled as historical values in five of seven; and (6) Inadequate data to assign the correct code in two of seven. We recommend specific enhancements to EHR systems that can promote effective eCQM implementation and reporting to MACRA and MIPS.

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electronic health recordshealth care quality assessmenthealth information technologymeaningful useprimary care

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PMID32025638
PMCPMC6994020

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