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.
[Picture]
3. Select the Export tab
[Picture]
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: