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USHIK: A Meaningful Use One-Stop Shop. Health Information Technology Standards Council J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality November 13, 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Mission
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USHIK: A Meaningful Use One-Stop Shop Health Information Technology Standards Council J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality November 13, 2012
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Mission Improve the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of health care for all Americans
Agenda • United States Health Information Knowledgebase • Meaningful Use Portal • MU1 • MU2 • Stage 2 • Focus on 2014 Clinical Quality Measures and their Value Sets • Sources of Truth: CMS, ONC, • NQF, Measure Developers, Code Set Maintainers
USHIK Information Models MU CF APCD HITSP SIF SDO • Standards Developing Organizations • Health Information Technology Standards Panel • Patient Safety Common Formats • Meaningful Use • Stage 1 • Stage 2 • All-Payer Claims Data • Standards and Interoperability Framework USHIK Portals ushik.ahrq.gov
USHIK: A One-Stop Shop • Pointers to Sources of Truth • CMS for Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) [Measure developers, NQF] • NLM for Measure Value Sets [Measure developers, NQF] • Logical organization • 2012 and 2014 CQM data elements • 2012 and 2014 CQM QM computational logic • 2012 and 2014 CQM code values for data elements (Value Sets)
USHIK: A One-Stop Shop • User-requested download formats available: XML, Excel, PDF, SVS, CSV, CTS2 • By selected sets of CQM’s and Value Sets • For all CQMs and Value Sets • Also, all in one combined flat file format—CVS • Version comparisons (as they become available) • CQM comparisons—see what is different • VS comparisons—see what codes have been subtracted and added
Benefit to AHRQ • Lead agency in supporting clinical quality measures • Development • Validation • Public availability in USHIK, National QM Clearinghouse • Organization and computational logic • Informatics application • More uniform, accurate, computerized, valid health data • Better research and operational data • Leading to more robust research findings • Subsequent greater acceptability of research tools • A benefit to ALL
USHIK: A Meaningful Use One-Stop Shop Health Information Technology Standards Council J. Michael Fitzmaurice, Ph.D. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality November 13, 2012