Critical Paths: Care Coordination 


Overview

The Critical Paths: Care Coordination project will assess the readiness of electronic data and health IT systems to support data capture, normalization and standardization to support care coordination reporting and evaluation across clinical information systems (e.g., electronic health records (EHRs) health information exchanges (HIEs), etc.). This project will assess the readiness of electronic data to support measurement concepts related to care coordination. The scope is focused on transitions of care and communication of the patient plan of care.

This project will assess the ability of existing health IT infrastructure (Quality Data Model (QDM), Healthcare Quality Measure Format (HQMF) , Measure Authoring Tool , electronic health records (EHRs)) to support the use of medical device data for purposes of quality measurement and reporting. The future state is to enable the use of care plan data communicated during transitions of care (e.g., problems/diagnoses, interventions /orders, and expected outcomes/goals) for quality measurement.
 

 
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TECHNICAL EXPERT PANEL

 
 
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ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS 

 

An RFP for a qualified contractor to perform the Environment Analysis was posted on the NQF website March 1- April 6, 2012. The contract will be awarded by May 4, 2012.

Based on the data elements defined by the TEP, the environmental analysis will be completed by August 10, 2012.

Critical Paths Care Coordination Environmental Scan Report 
 

 
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DRAFT REPORT 

 
 
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FINAL REPORT

 

NQF reviewed and synthesized public comments, and developed a final report on the critical pathways to enable electronic quality measurement for transitions of care and the communication of the plan of care. The final report was delivered to HHS by November 30, 2012.

Critical Paths for Creating Data Platforms: Care Coordination Final Report 
 

 
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