Quality Measures News and Resources for Healthcare

New Workbook Supports Home-Based Cardiovascular Care

September 29, 2023 - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has released a workbook that provides guidance and resources to support cardiovascular care in the home. The ACC Home-Based Care Workbook covers the pros and cons of home-based cardiovascular care, principles and objectives for developing a home-based care program, and key performance indicators to measure...

New Report Details Recommendations for Telehealth Performance Measures

April 19, 2023 by Mark Melchionna

Published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a recent report from the American College of Physicians (ACP) described various steps for applying, integrating, and evaluating telehealth performance in...

Using Remote Patient Monitoring to Improve Quality Metrics, Experience

December 14, 2021 by Anuja Vaidya

Interest in remote patient monitoring (RPM) is on the rise, and this interest is not limited to large, well-resourced health systems alone. Even smaller medical groups and rural private practices are taking advantage of this care...

National Quality Forum Looks to Update Telehealth Quality Benchmarks

March 08, 2021 by Eric Wicklund

The coronavirus pandemic, now creeping into its second year, has given federal regulators mountains of data on telehealth. Now it’s up to the National Quality Forum to develop a framework for...

ATA Launches New Resource for Evaluating mHealth Apps

October 19, 2020 by Eric Wicklund

The American Telemedicine Association is launching a resource for curating mHealth apps. The ATA announced a partnership last week with the Organization for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA),...

CMS Outlines Telehealth Reimbursement for 2020-21 eCQM Programs

July 13, 2020 by Eric Wicklund

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released additional details on telehealth reimbursement through quality reporting programs for the 2020 and 2021 performance periods. The eligible...

What Will Happen With Telehealth When the Emergency is Over?

March 23, 2020 by Eric Wicklund

As healthcare providers embrace new telehealth and mHealth services to address the Coronavirus pandemic, they should remember one thing: Capture and store all the data. Federal and state agencies are...