eMeasure Learning Collaborative
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Project Status: Completed
eMeasure Learning Collaborative
Access the Final Report: eMeasure Learning Collaborative: Advancing the Adoption, Implementation, and Use of eMeasures
Overview
The federal government is increasingly embracing electronically-enabled
performance measurement as a less-burdensome approach to gathering and publicly
reporting performance information. Accordingly, federal contractors and other
measure developers are now retooling existing quality measures into an
electronic format to support Meaningful Use, value-based purchasing, and other
innovative programs.1, 2 How to best implement such eMeasures,
however, remains challenging.
The eMeasure Learning Collaborative seeks to create a learning environment
for advancing knowledge and promoting best practices related to developing and
implementing eMeasures. By bringing together stakeholders from across the
quality enterprise, the Collaborative will help promote more efficient and
standardized adoption of eMeasures.
Specifically, the Collaborative will facilitate a public forum focused
on:
- Advancing knowledge and practice in properly implementing eMeasures across
all settings of healthcare;3
- Driving greater uptake of eMeasures and movement toward use of an electronic
platform for quality measurement;
- Promoting awareness, providing education, and enabling understanding of best
practices with eMeasure implementation across various healthcare settings; and,
- Encouraging knowledge sharing between all stakeholders involved in quality
and performance measurement, thereby expediting advancement in electronic
quality measurement.
NQF is eager to engage with relevant stakeholders – measure developers,
health IT vendors, clinical professionals, and quality improvement
organizations, among others – to advance the mission of the eMeasure Learning
Collaborative.
For more information, please contact Christopher Millet at 202-783-1300 or via
email at cmillet@qualityforum.org.
Additional Resources:
Footnotes:
1 In 2009, HHS, motivated by The Health Information Technology for
Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act,3 requested that NQF "retool," or
convert, 113 NQF-endorsed® measures from traditional paper-based measures to
electronic measures, or "eMeasures," to be compatible with or readable by EHR
systems.
2 Meaningful Use is identified by the
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology as
standards and certification criteria for the certification of EHR technology, so
eligible professionals and hospitals may be assured that the systems they adopt
are capable of performing the required functions. More information can be found
at http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt/community/healthit_hhs_gov__meaningful_use_announcement/2996.
3 Electronic measures (eMeasures) are standardized performance
measures in an electronic format. eMeasures can promote greater consistency in
measure development and in measuring and comparing performance results. They
also can provide more exact requirements about where information should be
collected, and drive greater standardization across the measures and greater
confidence in comparing outcomes and provider performance.
The eMeasure Learning Collaborative seeks to create a learning environment for advancing knowledge and promoting best practices related to developing and implementing eMeasures. By bringing together stakeholders from across the quality enterprise, the Collaborative will help promote more efficient and standardized adoption of eMeasures.
