New CMS/ONC Children's Measures Project Draft Quality Measures Available in USHIK for Public Comment

Using AHRQ's USHIK website, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), along with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), has released additional draft Quality Measures developed under the CMS/ONC Children's Measures project for public comment. The measures, "Immunizations by 13 years of age — HPV" and "Immunizations by 13 years of age - Meningococcus, Tetanus, and Diptheria" are now available.

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

The USHIK team is interested in your feedback. If you have questions or suggestions on how we can improve USHIK, please select the "Feedback/Help" button from the upper right side of the menu bar on any of the USHIK pages.