CQMs – import and calculate (MU3)

Import and Calculate

If you have been tracking your Clinical Quality Measures in another CEHRT (Certified Electronic Health Record Technology) system and wish to import your CQM data into OpenEMR and calculate eCQMs to submit to CMS you can do so by doing following this guide.

Pre-requisites

• That you have installed on your OpenEMR instance all of the code system types that your previous CEHRT used. We recommend you install the CQM Valueset.
• That you have followed all other instructions for using OpenEMR as a 2015 ONC CEHRT product.

Import Steps

1. Export all of your patient data in your previous CEHRT system as QRDA Cat 1 files.
2. Open the Carecoordination module from the Modules -> Carecoordination menu.
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3. Select the Export tab
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4. Use either the upload button [picture] or drag your QRDA Cat 1 xml files to the upload area of the page [picture]
5. Wait for your import files to finish uploading. [Picture]
6. Check for any duplicates. If you have duplicates follow the [Clinical Quality Measures Patient De-Duplication] process.
7. Select the Chart Pending button [picture]

Calculate Aggregate Report

Now that you have imported your patient documents you can generate an aggregated QRDA document (Category III / Category 3) document to submit to CMS. To do that you can follow these steps:

1. Open the Care Coordination Module by going to the main menu and opening Modules -> Carecoordination
2. Open the export tab
3. Click the search button
4. Select the QRDA option
5. Select the measure(s) you want to export
6. For more advanced search settings (filter by provider, billing facility, etc) see the Advanced Search Settings section
7. Hit the search setting
8. You will see a list of patients that you can export. Select the checkboxes next to the patients you wish to export. You can also select the checkbox at the top of the column to select everything. [picture]
9. Now click the SendTo button [picture]
10. Select the Download option [picture]
11. Choose the QRDA Cat 3 option [picture]
12. Hit the download button [picture]
13. Take the downloaded file and upload it to the CMS eCQM website portal

Export Advanced Search Settings

In the Carecoordination Search button you can get to the advanced settings by selecting the Advanced Settings heading [picture]

The following settings can be used to modify your search parameters

• Provider - Selecting a specific provider will filter only those patients that have an encounter relationship with this provider.Note: Only providers that have an NPI number will be in this list.
• Billing facility - Selecting a specific billing facility will filter the carecoordination patients displayed to only include patients that have an encounter that have this assigned billing facility
• Date Search