In 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs to encourage eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) to adopt, implement, upgrade, and demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To continue a commitment to promoting and prioritizing interoperability and exchange of health care data, CMS renamed the EHR Incentive Programs to the Medicare and Medicaid Promoting Interoperability Programs in April 2018. This change moved the programs beyond the existing requirements of meaningful use to a new phase of EHR measurement with an increased focus on interoperability and improving patient access to health information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cCertified Health Information Technology Reported by Clinicians for Promoting Interoperability Performance\u201d datasets combine CMS Quality Payment Program (QPP) participation data with the ONC Certified Health IT Product List (CHPL). The QPP Experience datasets provide the certified EHR technology (CEHRT) reported by all clinicians who reported for the Promoting Interoperability performance category, beginning in program year 2019. This data field can be merged with the CHPL data to provide specific certified product details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These datasets provide a minimum set of data fields to further combine these data with the full QPP experience data, full CHPL dataset, and other datasets. The documentation and notes describe those data fields necessary for linking to other data. See Methods and Notes for further details on dataset construction and data linkages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established the Medicare and Medicaid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_selected_menu":"","_show_breadcrumbs":"true","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"topics":[106,136,126,65],"class_list":["post-164958","dataset","type-dataset","status-publish","hentry","topics-certification-testing","topics-certification-of-ehrs","topics-data","topics-interoperability"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nData Field<\/th> Data Description<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> provider_key<\/th> Random unique key assigned to each row. See QPP Experience Report Public Use File Data Dictionary.<\/td><\/tr> npi<\/th> The National Provider Identifier assigned to the clinician when they enrolled in Medicare. Multiple rows for the same NPI indicate multiple TIN\/NPI combinations and\/or multiple certified products reported by the clinician. See QPP Experience Report Public Use File Data Dictionary.<\/td><\/tr> grp_key<\/th> Key generated to identify unique clinician practice groups. This can be used as a proxy for group TIN. It uses the data variables: practice_size, practice_state_or_us_territory, allowed_charges, and beneficiaries OR medicare patients from the QPP Experience Report Public Use File to approximate unique groupings of NPIs. These four data variables identify practice groups with an over 99% accuracy.<\/td><\/tr> practice_state_or_us_territory<\/th> The State or United States (US) territory code location of the TIN associated with the clinician. See QPP Experience Report Public Use File Data Dictionary.<\/td><\/tr> practice_size<\/th> Count of clinicians associated with TIN from the second segment of the MIPS eligibility determination period. See QPP Experience Report Public Use File Data Dictionary.<\/td><\/tr> clinician_specialty<\/th> The specialty description is an identifier corresponding to the type of service that the clinician submitted most on their Medicare Part B claims for this TIN\/NPI combination. See QPP Experience Report Public Use File Data Dictionary.<\/td><\/tr> participation_type<\/th> Indicates the level at which performance data was collected, submitted or reported for the final score attributed to the clinician. See QPP Experience Report Public Use File Data Dictionary.<\/td><\/tr> cehrt_id_clean<\/th> This is a unique identifier generated by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and identifies a specific bundle of software or EHR. A small percentage of CEHRT IDs submitted as part of QPP reporting were deemed invalid when matched against ONC’s official CEHRT ID database. Invalid IDs were matched to the ONC CEHRT ID database using a fuzzy matching algorithm and deemed accurate with a LV of 1 or 2. This corrected the ID in almost all cases as minor imputation errors during submission likely resulted in the invalid IDs. Some manual corrections were necessary.<\/td><\/tr> cehrt_id_orig<\/th> This is a unique identifier generated by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and identifies a specific bundle of software or EHR. The CEHRT ID is a 15-character alpha- numeric string which can be found on the CHPL website. This is the CEHRT ID included in the data that contributed to the clinician\u2019s final score. See QPP Experience Report Public Use File Data Dictionary.<\/td><\/tr> chpl_id<\/th> The Certified Health IT Product List (CHPL) ID. CHPL IDs are unique to each certified product listing. This data taken directly from CHPL.<\/td><\/tr> developer_name<\/th> The developer name associated with the certified product listing. This data taken directly from CHPL.<\/td><\/tr> product_name<\/th> The product name associated with the certified product listing. This data taken directly from CHPL.<\/td><\/tr> product_database_id<\/th> The product database ID associated with the certified product listing. This is used as part of the CHPL Public APIs to identify unique certified product listings. It can used to fetch data for the uni que certified product listing using the CHPL website and its public APIs. This data taken directly from CHPL.<\/td><\/tr> certification_edition<\/th> The Health IT Certification Edition associated with the certified product listing. This can be the 2011, 2014, 2015, or 2015 Cures Update Certification Editions. This data taken directly from CHPL.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"