CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently announced that the 2015 annual updates for the 2014 electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) are available in the electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center. The updated measure specifications include 29 updated measures for eligible hospitals and 64 updated measures for eligible professionals.
Providers will use these updated measures to electronically report 2016 quality data for CMS quality reporting programs, including the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (IQR), and the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs.
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