Objective 2 – Clinical Decision Support Rule

Clinical Decision Support Rule – Objective 2

About this Objective: Use clinical decision support to improve performance on high-priority health conditions.

Measures:

• Measure 1: Implement five clinical decision support interventions related to 5 or more clinical quality measures at a relevant point in patient care for the entire EHR reporting period. Absent four clinical quality measures related to an EP’s scope of practice or patient population, the clinical decision support interventions must be related to high-priority health conditions.
• Measure 2: The EP has enabled and implemented the functionality for drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction checks for the entire EHR reporting period.

Exclusion:

For the 2nd Measure only – Any EP who writes fewer than 100 medication orders during the EHR reporting period.

Additional Information:

• If there are limited CQMs applicable to an EP’s scope of practice, the EP should implement Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Interventions that he or she believes will drive improvements in the delivery of care for the high priority health conditions relevant to their specialty and patient population. For a guide on how to set up these intervention templates, Click Here.
• Drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction alerts are separate from the 5 clinical decision support interventions and do not count toward the 5 required for this first measure.

How to meet this Objective:

• Measure 1: First you need to enable Patient Intervention. To learn how to do this, Click Here. Then you need to, create Patient Intervention profiles within the EMR (you can create these profiles by going to Configure > Patient Intervention. To learn how to configure these templates, Click Here.), as well as tie those profiles to corresponding information, that will provide educational materials and references to your patients as to why you are discussing this with them (You need to create 5 templates under Configure > Templates > Select CDS Intervention > Click New.) It is recommended you try and build as many of these intervention profiles and documents based on CQM’s that our EMR is certified for, however, this is not required. For a guide on how to set up these intervention templates, Click Here.
• Measure 2: Drug -drug and drug-allergy interaction checks are an automatic feature in the ChartLogic EMR and is always enabled.

CMS Information

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