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CHIPRA Draft Quality Measures in USHIK

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CHIPRA Draft Quality Measures in USHIK

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), along with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), has released additional draft electronic clinical Quality Measures. The measures, "Immunizations by 13 years of age - HPV" and "Immunizations by 13 years of age - Meningococcus, Tetanus, and Diptheria" are now available for review, download, testing and public content. These draft measures are some of the measures being created for possible inclusion in federal programs, including the Meaningful Use program. Please submit any comment or feedback you have about these measure through the Jira issue tracker.

To access and comment on the draft measures, click on the "Draft Measures" tab in USHIK. Select the individual measure you would like to view. You must authenticate to UMLS using your (free) UTS account credentials to view the value sets and codes of a measure. To submit feedback on a specific draft measure, click on the "Provide Feedback" button located at the top of the individual quality measure's page, fill the form out on the screen and submit. All feedback is sent to CMS and ONC for review.

USHIK is an on-line, publicly accessible registry and repository of healthcare related data, metadata, and standards. USHIK is funded and directed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) with management support and partnership from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics.

Visit the USHIK website at http://ushik.ahrq.gov.

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