CMS Seeks Feedback For Potential EHR Measure On Antipsychotic Use

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is soliciting comments from hospitals and others regarding creating a new electronic health record measure on the use of antipsychotics in older adults in an inpatient hospital setting. CMS periodically develops and re-engineers electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) for its reporting programs. This request for comment, issued April 22, states that CMS aims to understand "the scope of antipsychotic use, the potential for quality improvement opportunities and the possible unintended consequences of implementing an antipsychotic measure in an acute inpatient hospital setting."

The agency explains that it aims to understand if the . . .