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CMS Posts Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures

Health information technology users, developers, and others wanting to review or comment on the clinical quality measures in the Stage 2 meaningful-use criteria have them now laid out in a handy, downloadable spreadsheet format.

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Source: ModernHealthcare.com

The CMS posted the measures and descriptions about them—one sheet for hospitals and another sheet for office-based physicians and other eligible professionals—on its website.

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