CMS Quality-Based Reporting Requirements

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Explain CMS quality-based reporting requirements. How does the EHR support the capture and reporting of data to registries that are used to determine quality-based performance?
Quality healthcare in the United States is a priority to POTUS, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services and other centers of Medicare & Medic-aid. Due to this verity, CMS applies various quality initiatives to guarantee that quality healthcare for the beneficiaries of Medicare. This always targets the best effort from the relevant department to maintain a good reputation with the public through accountability (United States Congress, House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, 2015). Furthermore, CMS also utilizes these quality measures in its several quality initiatives.
These projects include public reporting, pay for reporting, and quality improvement. Quality measures, therefore, refer to tools that assist in measuring or quantifying various healthcare processes, organizational str...