Electronic Clinical Quality Measures

EHR-based automated quality measure reporting has the potential, if implemented correctly, to ease the burden of quality reporting, while increasing access to real-time information to support quality improvement. To do so, the clinical quality measures (eCQMs) generated from EHR data must be based upon information that is feasible to collect in an automated fashion, generate valid and reliable results, and thereby demonstrate a benefit that outweighs the costs.