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HHS Releases CHPL Data Challenge Winners

Published on Wed Dec 19, 2018

With the 2015 Edition Certified EHR Technology (CEHRT) now a requirement for eligible clinicians for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) in 2019, you may be looking for new options for your practice health IT. Three new offerings aim to make quality reporting a whole lot easier.

Details: The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) named its three 2018 winners for the Certified Health IT Product List (CHPL) Data Challenge. The annual contest “is a call for developers, researchers, and innovators to develop a software application that makes use of the data in the CHPL application programming interfaces (API) or XML files in novel ways,” explained the ONC in the Data Challenge instructions.

The new software options include:

Search engine: Research AE developed a cross-sectional search engine that maps the coordination of CHPL APIs with Meaningful Use (MU) submissions, Medicare Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System (PECOS), and National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) data, suggested the HHS release.
Web application: A new web application product from Shiro Labs allows providers to mix QPP information with CHPL data “to better understand how ONC certified health IT complements their QPP reporting requirements,” HHS noted.
Mobile application: Patient engagement and care coordination get a boost from a new Darena Solutions mobile app called Check EHR. The option lets Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) providers cross-check their quality measures against their health IT to see if they meet federal certification criteria for the program, the release mentioned.

Resource: See the comprehensive CHPL and overview at https://chpl.healthit.gov/#/resources/overview.

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