{"id":851,"date":"2021-05-18T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T06:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthasyst.com\/healthcare-it-services\/?p=851"},"modified":"2025-04-03T16:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T10:40:39","slug":"how-automation-can-help-close-care-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthasyst.com\/healthcare-it-services\/how-automation-can-help-close-care-gaps\/","title":{"rendered":"How automation can help close care gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The role of quality metrics as being the primary drivers of value-based outcomes cannot be challenged. Clinical Quality Measures help healthcare providers and payers understand, compare, and track the quality of care. However, keeping track of hundreds of measures, collecting and reporting the data can be daunting.\u00a0 Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) are important indicators, but place an additional burden on the already-stressed provider.<\/p>

Perhaps, these have contributed to the ever-widening care gaps and physician burnout that have become the bane of the healthcare industry today.<\/em><\/p>

Thus, providers are now exploring the possibilities that technology offers to achieve higher compliance on clinical quality measures through automation.<\/p>

The manual roadblock<\/h2>

Most healthcare IT systems today, such as the EHRs and PHMs, are well equipped to track the measures and determine the care gaps. However, it ends there. The providers are expected to take action based on the tracking data<\/a> to close the care gaps.<\/em><\/p>

Let\u2019s consider a scenario based on one of the Clinical Quality Measures for 2021 Performance Period, CMS125v9, around Breast Cancer Screening.<\/a> In this case, providers get the data about the women in the 50-74 age group who need to be screened for breast cancer before the end of the Measurement Period. However, this information will then need to be used by clinical staff to decide on the course of action. Let\u2019s consider the below workflow involving manual intervention:<\/p>