ONC popHealth tool automates physician quality measure reporting

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has made available a free tool to simplify the reporting by physicians and practices of clinical quality measures for meaningful use.

Although popHealth was just a concept a year ago, ONC has conducted real-world testing and is highlighting it as providers begin to demonstrate meaningful use.

popHealth is an open source reference implementation software service that automates the reporting of quality measures in stage one of meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs), said Dr. Thomas Tsang, ONC’s medical director of meaningful use and quality.