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CMS to hospitals: Ready to report quality measures electronically?

he CMS wants to know whether hospitals will be able to begin submitting some previously established quality measures through their electronic health-record systems by 2014.

The agency published a request for information (PDF) Friday asking hospitals and information technology vendors about the feasibility of using certified EHRs to submit patient-level data on clinical quality measures.

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Source: ModernHealthcare.com

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