ONC's popHealth Automates Meaningful Use Reporting for Docs

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, said Thomas Tsang, MD, ONC’s medical director of meaningful use and quality. popHealth also streamlines the automated generation of summary quality measure reports on the provider’s patient population to support meaningful use calculations. It can report aggregate statistics, but also gives the provider the ability to drill down into individual patient records.