April 26, 2012 | 8:00am - 4:00pm ET
On Thursday, April 26, 2012, NQF hosted the first in-person meeting of the eMeasure Learning Collaborative, Best Practices in eMeasure Implementation. This meeting provided a forum for sharing knowledge on the development and implementation of eMeasures across all domains of healthcare. Participants had the opportunity to engage in breakout group discussions to share best practices, identify gaps, and discuss innovative techniques related to the development of an electronic platform for quality measurement. This meeting was held at NQF.
The meeting aimed to:
- Advance knowledge and practice related to the development and implementation of eMeasures across all settings of healthcare;
- Drive greater uptake of eMeasures and movement toward use of an electronic platform for quality measurement;
- Promote awareness, provide education, and enable understanding of best practices with eMeasure implementation across various healthcare settings; and,
- Allow knowledge sharing between all stakeholders involved in quality and performance measurement thereby expediting advancement in electronic quality measurement.
Opening and Closing Session Materials:
Participants will have the
opportunity to participate in one of five breakout tracks:
- The
Implementation Acute Group focused on best practices for eMeasure
implementation in hospital settings. Discussion concentrated on the clinician/EHR
interface with respect to workflow impact and how off-the-shelf vendor
products are used or modified to achieve results, as well as essential implementation
elements regarding governance, process, vendor interaction, and hybrid data
management methods.
- The
Implementation Small Practices Group will focus on best practices for eMeasure
implementation in ambulatory settings, especially small practices. Discussion
will concentrate on the clinician/EHR interface with respect to workflow
impact and how off-the-shelf vendor products are used or modified to
achieve results, as well as essential implementation elements regarding
governance, process, vendor interaction, and hybrid data management methods.
- The
Technical Group will focus on
current efforts and formats to express requests for information, including
the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM) used in current Health Quality
Measure Format (HQMF) measures, simplification of HQMF, and Java script, among
others. Discussion will concentrate on benefits and challenges of these various
methods, as well as essential requirements for such formats to fit the
data workflow and next steps for determining solutions.
- The
Clinical Data Analytics Group
will focus on best practices for collecting, scrubbing, analyzing
and using clinical data to allow aggregation for quality measurement and
reporting. Discussion will concentrate on the workflow of data from
collection through analysis and reporting, as well as data workflow components
and suggestions for clarifying process steps.
- The
Innovation Group will focus on
new, innovative methods to enhance the value of structured data and to
interpret unstructured data for use in quality measurement and reporting
from EHRs and other data sources. Discussion will concentrate on common
threads among these various methods, as well as consider method evaluation
criteria and suggestions for including methods in quality measurement data
workflow.
This meeting provided a
chance to network with other healthcare professionals who share an interest in
the development and implementation of eMeasures, while also learning from those
who have experience in this process.
