With eCQMs, the clinician documents in a structured field within the Electronic Health Record (EHR), usually as part of a clinical workflow ( e.g., ordering a medication using an electronic order entry system or documents a valid reason for not doing an expected intervention). Even if a physician documented in a hand-written note that they prescribed aspirin for the patient, an abstractor could use that documentation to confirm that the patient did pass the CQM #0067: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD): Antiplatelet Therapy. The main difference between eCQMs and MIPS CQMs is that eCQMs require structured data to be captured electronically, often at the point of care, while in most cases, MIPS CQMs have some level of additional manual data collection from the medical record often referred to as data abstraction.įor example, with MIPS CQMs, an abstractor can review the patient’s records (electronic and paper documentation) to assess whether the patient has passed or failed the measure. Capturing MIPS eCQMs vs MIPS CQMs (registry) Now let's take a look at what makes up these two different measure types and why a clinician may choose one option over the other.

The old Registry measures are very much what you think of when you think of traditional Clinical Quality Measures. And after you read this post, I think you will agree it does make more sense. But actually it should help to clarify what this measure is. They changed 'Registry' measures to 'MIPS CQMs' - just to confuse us. CMS actually changed the language regarding these measures in the 2019 Quality Payment Program final rule.

Today, we are going to review the difference between these two common measure types.īefore we begin, we have a note on terminology. Typically most practices find themselves debating on whether they should use eCQMs or Registry measures for their Quality category data requirements.

Depending upon your practice's situation, one of these 'collection types' (as CMS refers to them) may be better suited for your needs.

You may have heard various terms thrown around: eCQM, Registry and QCDR. In the MIPS program, there are several different sets of quality measures that are available for the Quality category.

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