Description: This course covers basic data management functionality to prepare data for CMS and Joint Commission submission. The topics include: Uploading Data, Resolving Data Errors, Reviewing Data Quality, and Managing Records.

Description: This course explains how to use the Measure Trends Report to analyze your data in different ways. With this report you can view aggregate measure results for a group of hospitals in your health care system and compare the quality measure results for your hospital or a group of hospitals against a defined target or benchmark.

Description: MUQM helps you take advantage of both Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Joint Commission electronic clinical quality measures reporting requirements often referred to as eCQM. It is a web-based application that accepts patient data from disparate electronic health record systems, calculates measures, generates measure results, and performs electronic submission to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid and the Joint Commission on your behalf.

CQMs quantify quality in our health care system. Measuring and reporting CQMs help to ensure care is delivered in a safe, effective, equitable and timely manner. eCQMs use data from electronic health records (EHR) and/or health information technology systems to measure health care quality. The CMS use eCQMs in a variety of quality reporting and incentive programs. You might also hear the term eMeasures often. eMeasure is an old term that has been replaced with eCQM.