The Medical Quality Improvement Consortium from GE Healthcare is a rapidly growing community of over 500 Centricity* Practice Solution (CPS) and Centricity EMR (CEMR) customers who contribute de-identified patient clinical data to a centralized data warehouse to enable quality benchmarking, Meaningful Use reporting, public health reporting, and research opportunities. Data from over 25,000 providers and approximately 25 million unique patient records are represented in the data warehouse today.

1. Medical Quality
Improvement Consortium (MQIC)
Quality Reporting Services and Quality Submission Services
The Medical Quality Improvement Consortium from
GE Healthcare is a rapidly growing community of over 500
Centricity* Practice Solution (CPS) and Centricity EMR (CEMR)
customers who contribute de-identified patient clinical data to
a centralized data warehouse to enable quality benchmarking,
Meaningful Use reporting, public health reporting, and research
opportunities. Data from over 25,000 providers and approxi-
mately 25 million unique patient records are represented in
the data warehouse today.
Becoming an MQIC member requires no additional out-of-pocket
expense for CPS and CEMR customers. An important benefit of
membership is access to Quality Reporting Services through a
web-based portal as well as the Quality and Reporting tab in
CPS version 10. Quality reports for programs such as Meaningful
Use and PQRS, are included with support for more programs
planned. These reports help members stay current on regulatory
and incentive programs. Clinicians and practices can benchmark
their performance on quality measures against recognized
standards, and the reports can be used to determine whether
patients are receiving evidence-based care.
Quality Reporting Services leverages your secure internet
connection to extract and transmit de-identified clinical data to
GE Healthcare’s HIPAA-compliant data warehouse on a nightly
basis. Specific patient identifiers and other protected information
are deleted from the data prior to transmission. Consistent clinical
vocabularies and a data harmonization process are used to
ensure data consistency and report accuracy.
Quality Submission Services is an additional offering that
facilitates participation in quality programs including the
Physicians’ Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and Electronic
Prescribing (eRx) programs. GE Healthcare has the capability
to submit MQIC members’ quality data to CMS for purposes of
qualifying for both programs. As a certified vendor, MQIC offers
a selection of PQRS measures and has submitted annual reports
on behalf of over 3,500 providers. This service is available at a
modest additional fee.
Quality Reporting Services and Quality Submission Services
are essential components of GE Healthcare’s certified solutions
(CPS and CEMR versions 9.5 and above) for the Meaningful Use
EHR Incentive Program. MQIC members are using Quality
Reporting Services to generate reports necessary for the
Meaningful Use attestation process.
Supporting Clinical Research through the vast wealth of
de-identified clinical data contained within MQIC, GE Healthcare
and its partners use the data for quality initiatives and other
projects related to healthcare improvement and disease reporting.
Projects have included the determination of risk factors for
H1N1 influenza to enable early surveillance in a real-world,
ambulatory setting. MQIC members make a significant
contribution to the advancement of clinical knowledge and
public health by contributing to this valuable data resource.

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MQIC Membership Benefits
• Quality Reporting Services allows practices to benchmark
their performance against evidence-based care guidelines
• Quality Submission Services provides a reporting service for
programs such as PQRS and eRx†
• Quality reports, including those used for Meaningful Use,
are directly integrated into Centricity Practice Solution
version 10 and are available to all users through the MQIC
web portal
• Clinical data are de-identified, cleaned, and harmonized to
permit standardized reporting and data analysis
• De-identified clinical data contribute to population-based
research projects
• MQIC membership and Quality Reporting Services are
available at no additional cost for CPS and CEMR customers
For More Information
To join MQIC, or to schedule a demonstration to see the benefits
of MQIC first hand, please contact us at MQIC@ge.com. You can
also visit www.gehealthcare.com/MQIC for information on how
GE Healthcare helps you demonstrate the quality of care you
deliver to your patients.
Customer Success
CoxHealth, a three-hospital organization with more than 60 physician clinics and over 480 physicians,
cites the success they have had through use of GE Healthcare’s MQIC Quality Submission Services:
“ The GE Healthcare IT team pulled off quite a feat with the CMS PQRS reporting project.
GE’s MQIC service has provided our organization with a viable avenue for participating in
the PQRS program. We had declined to use the claims-based method for data submission,
due to the administrative complexity of this option and the significant time investment.
Until GE’s MQIC registry certification, we just didn’t see the advantage of the PQRS program
in terms of a return on investment. The government’s new HITECH Act for Healthcare has
made it clear that quality outcomes measurement is increasingly important, and we believe
we are prepared to take advantage of this focus, through our use of MQIC and
Centricity EMR.”
Sharon Duvall, MT(ASCP) and CPHQ
Performance Improvement Facilitator