Second, the new registry replaces static tables with modern clinician-centric visualizations designed to improve both at-a-glance and detailed views of your performance. Each onscreen component prioritizes the most actionable information so a provider can quickly know whether attention is warranted. For example, if you want just a glance at your current quality performance measure, it takes about 30 seconds to see if you are on track or should consider reviewing it. If you want to scan measure details to see what is trending up or down, it takes 60 seconds, and if you want to review the measure in detail to see what its impact is, how it is affecting your score and if any guidance is needed, that takes about 120 seconds.
“When you have more than 2 minutes, you can drill down more for insight across multiple dimensions of care,” Mr. Voccola said. This basically moves the needle from just insight into quality measures and performance to actually taking action. For instance, you will now be able to look across a measure, activity type or patient type and see where the difficulty lies if your quality measure is not as good as you want it to be.
Ultimately, the aim of the new registry is to generate better connectivity both within practices and institutions and among them. “We want to get to the place of not just sharing data but developing a feedback loop from what is happening in practices to make this a learning environment,” Mr. Voccola said.
He also said Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is the number one health data standard used to represent and transfer EHR data, and will likely remain the champion in health care data. “RISE and FHIR leverage EHR interoperability to reduce burden and increase quality,” he said.
In other words, rheumatologists get feedback on quality measures and also provide data on their quality measures to act as a feedback loop so the entire specialty benefits.
Mary Beth Nierengarten is a freelance medical journalist based in Minneapolis.
