The Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program: provider performance on core and menu measures.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To measure performance by eligible health care providers on CMS's meaningful use measures.

Data source

Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program Eligible Professionals Public Use File (PUF), which contains data on meaningful use attestations by 237,267 eligible providers through May 31, 2013.

Study design

Cross-sectional analysis of the 15 core and 10 menu measures pertaining to use of EHR functions reported in the PUF.

Principal findings

Providers in the dataset performed strongly on all core measures, with the most frequent response for each of the 15 measures being 90-100 percent compliance, even when the threshold for a particular measure was lower (e.g., 30 percent). PCPs had higher scores than specialists for computerized order entry,

SUBMITTER: Wright A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3925405 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature