NextGen Healthcare recently received Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) prevalidation through the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). This pre-validation, along with new PCMH resources from NextGen Healthcare makes it easier for clients to achieve PCMH recognition and support the transition to value-based care.
NextGen® Ambulatory EHR has been prevalidated by NCQA to receive automatic credit toward PCMH 2014 scoring for 22 PCMH factors; and also has received supporting designation for a number of other factors.
What is NCQA PCMH Prevalidation?
NCQA PCMH prevalidation includes a rigorous evaluation of health IT functionality, including but not limited to reporting functions, report examples, screen shots, live demonstrations and other relevant documentation. Based on review, NCQA approves “autocredit” points for specific PCMH factor-level requirements and designates “practice support” points for other factors a product has a demonstrated capability to support.
Practices using the prevalidated NextGen Ambulatory EHR will benefit from reduced documentation requirements associated with their PCMH Survey and a clearer pathway to achieving PCMH recognition using specified functionality and capabilities.
PCMH Resources from NextGen Healthcare
NextGen Healthcare clients can visit the PCMH Resources page on Knowledge Exchange to access:
- Documentation needed to leverage NCQA PCMH Prevalidation
- PCMH white papers outlining specified workflows
- Links to presentation and educational resources
Please check back often as this page is being continually updated to include additional tools and resources.