Healthcare IT News November 28, 2017
The aim of the core measures is to refocus the agency’s regimen of quality metrics on high-quality healthcare and meaningful outcomes for patients, according to the agency.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday offered further insight into how the Meaningful Measures program works. In a webinar, Jean Moody-Williams, RN, deputy director of CMS’ Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, said the initiative to streamline quality reporting was launched in recognition that “there’s a fine line between being helpful and being a hindrance.”
CMS has heard the feedback from industry stakeholders that there are too many often-overlapping quality measures, and that it’s often difficult to see how they relate to each other and how tracking and reporting them...
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