EHR Intelligence January 13, 2021
The National Quality Forum responded to its initial environmental scan with its final recommendations for EHR data quality.
Improved EHR data quality can be utilized to support automated clinical quality measurement, according to The National Quality Forum (NQF).
NQF identified challenges that impact the healthcare performance measures from a development, endorsement, and implementation standpoint using EHR data and recommendations from a technical expert panel (TEP).
NQF established the multi-stakeholder TEP to create two reports. The first was an environmental scan report that recognized the current EHR data quality issues and the second was a final recommendations report, the Technical Expert Panel on Electronic Health Record Data Quality Best Practices for Increased Scientific Acceptability.
The initial environmental scan report described...