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  1. What are the benefits of becoming a QCDR?
     

    - Maximizes CMS incentives for your member providers
     

    - Enhances the Quality of Care through expanded performance metrics. 
     

    - Your providers use QCDR metrics designed by your organization

    - Accelerates revenue stream(s) derived from your CMS submission capacity More...

    - Your organization maintains control of the CMS submission process, including metric design, implementation and execution

 

  1. What are the deadlines for becoming a QCDR?

    1/30/2016
    Healthcare Registry/Consortium/Certification Board self nominates as a QCDR via email        
     

    3/30/2016
    The self nominated QCDR submit numerator & denominator for QCDR report(s)
     

  2. How can my organization implement QCDR successfully?
     

    Creating QCDR submissions requires a concerted effort; Taking special pains to thoroughly plan system design reduce time & effort for a superior product in the following manners:

    1. When CMS Reporting requirements change (of course!), so will our libraries! 

    2. Leverage other public institutions who have implemented CMS reports.

    3. Reduce the burden on providers with streamlined data acquisition

    4. Fully exploit existing HIT report generation libraries and functions

     

    The result is a more reliable, maintainable report system that can be shared among all registries.
     

  3. What technology does CUHSM.ORG use to help my organization?
     

    CUHSM.ORG  expedites the ability of your organization to comply with CMS QCDR requirements:

    1. Cloud based CMS submission generation including QPP & eRX

    2. Our QCDR Report Integrator cross walks multiple data sources

    3. Template style report merging that supports a wide variety of health reporting systems such as G-CAHPS, NQF endorsed measures, measures used by boards, specialty societies or regional quality collaboratives and EP outcomes based measure(s)

    4. Programmatic transparency of data elements, specifications, risk models, and measures    

    5. Designed to adapt to your current registry database or provider’s EMR systems
       

  4. What are the advantages of using CUHSM.ORG
     

    CUHSM.ORG has the expertise and toolkit to expedite your CMS QPP report process.  To accelerate QCDR benefits to your providers, CUHSM.ORG(3) adds QCDR report functions to your existing registry IT operations.

     

    CUHSM.ORG - is a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) for CMS QPP report apps

    Advantages over commercial QCDR solutions:

    1. Designed to leave your current registry operations intact.

    2. Secure: HIPAA compliant with triple DES encryption

    3. Straightforward methods for Patient Record Transfer Request

    4. Your organization owns the data (We use the Application Hosting Provider business model in our BAA's). 

    Our hands-on approach gives you the support when and where you need it.

       Whether your organization has decided to become a QCDR or is evaluating the value for doing so,  (staff, timeline, availability, cost, tradeoffs, benefits internal vs external) we can help. 
     

  5. Where can I research QCDR ?

Use these resources to help your QCDR succeed...
     1. Receive our QCDR newsletter
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Schedule a phone consultation or
     3. Meet us face to face at the 1/23-24/2013 ONC Annual Meeting.in D.C.
              
Schedule a meeting  Details here

Visit our website for more information: www.cuhsm.org.  We look forward to serving you. 

 P.S.    CUHSM.ORG can help you meet CMS  requirements within Deadlines
 

 



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References/Acronym definitions
(1)  QPP=Physician Quality Reporting System, a CMS electronic reporting system for physicians
(2)  QCDR self nomination process: send an email from your organization CMS QCDR_docs_pdf here     More CMS info here...
(3 QCDR=Qualified Clinical Data Registry  
      HISP = Health Information Service Provider, a HIPAA secure cloud based platform for the processing health information
 

 

QCDR guide to self nomination(2)

 



 

 

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