Harnessing electronic clinical data to report adult and prenatal immunization quality measures.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the use of health plan quality measures specified for electronic clinical data to monitor immunizations.

Materials and methods

We analyzed 2018 data submitted by health plans reporting 2 new Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set measures assessing receipt of clinically recommended vaccines among pregnant women and adults. We analyzed the number of plans reporting a valid performance rate and electronic data source used. We consulted expert panels and reviewed coverage rates from other sources to understand the results.

Results

We received 136 data submissions across commercial, Medicaid and Medicare plans and 87 submissions across commercial and Medicaid plans for the adult and prenatal immunization measures, respectively. These submis

SUBMITTER: Byron SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8449614 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature