AHA Urges AHRQ to Refine EHR Quality Measures

In a letter to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the American Hospital Association urged the government agency to work with stakeholders to ensure quality measures reported by electronic health records are tested and refined, according to an AHA News Now report.

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Quality data reported as part of meaningful use efforts “contain known errors,” and “it is important to get a small number of measures right before moving on to more measures or moving too quickly,” the association said.

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