The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been working to streamline the quality measures it requires across its programs, with a goal of aligning the [...]
Adopting a common dictionary for problem lists is a good step in boosting their usefulness in electronic records, but getting to the next level requires agreeing on standardized content and use.
The Nov/Dec “ARRA on the Job” column “Understanding the Meaningful Use Vocabulary Standards” provides an introduction to the vocabulary standard requirements adopted in the meaningful use [...]
New Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius was on Capitol Hill yesterday with two new reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in [...]
For the past two days the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics has been hearing testimony from the industry on what constitutes the “meaningful use” [...]
The National Quality Forum is in the process of establishing consensus standards for the use of clinically enriched administrative data for reporting performance measures in ambulatory [...]
Several stories in the current print issue describe efforts to streamline data collection and reporting for quality measures. Two touch on the Quality Reporting Document Architecture [...]
What’s the difference between a taxonomy and a terminology? A terminology and a vocabulary? The January “e-HIM Fundamentals” column offers help in differentiating the terms that describe [...]
