Advancing Digital Quality Reporting Using Regulated Endpoints

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This brief explores how health care organizations can modernize their quality reporting by leveraging standardized, real-time data connections that many systems already possess. Leavitt Partners (an HMA company) conducted a feasibility study through discussions with the Digital Quality Implementers Community, NCQA, and several health systems. The findings suggest that nearly half of today’s priority quality measures may be reportable using existing FHIR-based APIs and USCDI v3 data. The core message is the potential for improving quality reporting without building entirely new infrastructure, but rather by utilizing and standardizing connections to data already present in various systems. This emphasizes the immediate relevance of established standards like FHIR for operational improvements in healthcare IT.