Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The proportion of patients who are provided timely access to view online, download, and transmit their health information, using any application of their choice that is configured to meet the technical specifications of the Application Programming Interface (API) in the MIPS eligible clinician's certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT).
Numerator
The number of patients in the denominator (or patient authorised representative) who are provided timely access to health information to view online, download, and transmit to a third party and to access using an application of their choice that is configured to meet the technical specifications of the API in the MIPS eligible clinician's CEHRT.
Denominator
The number of unique patients seen by the MIPS eligible clinician during the performance period.
Exclusions
None
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Clinician reported data to MIPS
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Hospital Care Compare Website. More detailed data is displayed at data.cms.gov