1. The Role of HIT in Pay for Performance
The Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC)
Michael Lieberman, MD, MS
Informatics Director
GE Healthcare, Practice Solutions

2. Medical Quality Improvement Consortium
Data
Warehouse
Centricity EMR Users
Use data to improve patient care
Strengthen clinical reporting
Disease management
Quality of care
Clinical research
Free service

3. Centricity ® Physician Office EMR Data Warehouse Services3
Reports & Outcomes
MQIC Web Portal
MQIC Components
Database
Centricity ® Physician Office EMR
Data Warehouse Services
Report
Data
Import 1 2 3
Staging Area 1
Data Extract System

4. Data Security HIPAA-compliant Remove patient-identifying information
Name, SSN, Phone, Address
Zip code to 3 digits only
DOB --> Age
PID --> transformed to EPID
Only EMR customers can re-identify individuals

5. Data Captured

6. NCQA Software Certification
First EMR in the Industry
Diabetes Physician Recognition Program
Automated Submission
Enabling Pay for Performance
Centricity EMR is the only EMR certified by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, NCQA. NCQA is a non-profit organization started in 1990, dedicated to improving healthcare quality. They accomplish this by measuring quality, because measurement leads to improvement. Certification is possible because of the unique data structure within Centricity EMR.
The NCQA Physician Recognition Program is voluntary for physicians. Once certified, these physicians are recognized in many health plan directories, as well as being recognized for pay-for-performance programs.

7. Diabetes Decision Support Example

8. Diabetes Decision Support Example

9. Diabetes Decision Support Example

10. Diabetes Decision Support Example

11. Diabetes Decision Support Example

12. NCQA DPRP Report

13. Clinician Level Detail

14. Comparison by Specialty

15. Display One Provider
Using the ‘Page By’ axis, you can display the report for one provider at a time. There is a crystal report available on the Knowledgebank website to generate a list of names for provider ids used in these reports.

16. Save File for Upload

17. Access NCQA Submission Site (https://iss.ncqa.org/PhysicianPortal/ )

18. Enter Practice Information

19. Enter Information for Provider
The bottom of the screen also shows how you upload the file generated from the MQIC report

20. Confirmation
One can also go to the Provider information page to submit information from another provider at the same clinic.

21. Additional Actions

22. Benefits Greatly simplify submission process
15 minutes via automated method
Enable monthly feedback on current status
Snapshot of entire practice vs. sample
Tool for management of population health

23. The Role of HIT in Pay for Performance
The Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC)
Michael Lieberman, MD, MS