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NQF Member comments due Tuesday, June 17, 2008 by 6:00 PM ET
Public comments due Tuesday, June 10, 2008 by 6:00 PM ET
Adoption of Health Information Technology by clinicians has been shown to improve quality by reducing medical errors, reducing failure to follow-up on abnormal results, eliminating repetitive testing, allowing more timely follow-up on results, and providing clinical decision-support tools to facilitate evidence-based care. The purpose of this project is to achieve voluntary consensus on a set of structural measures that can be used to assess the adoption of Health Information Technology (HIT) by clinicians in the United States. In March 2008, the Steering Committee reviewed the 18 HIT measures of which 9 are recommended for NQF endorsement.
The Steering Committee assisted NQF staff in evaluating the candidate measures against the NQF-endorsedTM measure evaluation criteria of importance, scientific acceptability, usability, and feasibility.. The detailed measure evaluations and meeting summary for the Steering Committees are available for Member review only.
Pursuant to the CDP, this draft document, along with the accompanying material, is being provided for purposes of review and comment only—not voting. You may post your comments and view the comments of others using the navigation menu at left.
NQF will post and take into consideration only those comments received by the above deadline(s). NQF reserves the right to identify and remove any objectionable content. NQF is not responsible for the views and opinions expressed in posted comments.
Download a PDF of the “National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Health Information Technology Structural Measures” and view the Timeline for Consideration of the Measures.