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Roadmap to Readiness:
Preparing for Digital Quality Measures
As the shift to digital quality measures (dQMs) accelerates, health plans must prepare their infrastructure, data systems, and vendor relationships to keep pace. This roadmap outlines four essential steps to help your organization get ready for the digital future.
Step 1: Evaluate Your Data
Goal: Build a strong foundation of clinical data and identify any gaps in readiness.
Step 2: Conduct a Vendor Check-up
Goal: Partner with key, high volume EHR vendors to ensure readiness.
Step 3: Plan With Your IT Partners
Goal: Ensure your systems can scale and store the growing volume of clinical data.
Step 4: Review Your Measures
Goal: Prioritize high-impact measures and develop strategies to manage the transition to dQMs.
Hybrid Measures for Digital Transition Timeline
- Use key below to interpret timeline.
- Will transition to electronic clinical data systems (ECDS)
- Will be administrative only
- 2025
- Eye exams for diabetics (EED)
- Childhood immunization status (CIS)
- Immunization for adolescents (IMA)
- Cervical cancer screening (CCS)
- 2026
- Lead screening in children (LSC)
- 2027
- Weight assessment and counseling for nutrition and physical activity for children and adolescents (WCC)
- 2028
- Prenatal and postpartum care (PPC)
- Controlling high blood pressure (CBP)
- Blood pressure control for patients with Diabetes (BPD)
- 2029
- Glycemic status assessment for patients with diabetes (GSD)
- Transition of care (TRC)
- Care for older adults (COA)
Final Tip
Start Now, Scale Strategically
Digital quality measures are the future, but the transition is already underway. Early investment, a proactive approach towards meeting new requirements, and targeting key measures can all contribute to ensuring your health plan is best positioned to undergo the change.
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