(b) Stratified data (1) In general The Administrator shall include an explicit reference under the Quality Payment Program indicating that data stratification and reporting is one way of working to achieve health equity. (2) Stratification of data The Administrator shall require that a clinician or other professional, in reporting measures relating to achieving health quality under this the Quality Payment Program, stratify clinical quality measures by disparity variables, including race, ethnicity, preferred language, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and psychological and behavioral status. A clinician or other professional may use existing demographic data collection fields in certified electronic health record technology (as defined in section 1848(o)(4) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395w–4(o)(4) )) to carry out such data stratification under the preceding sentence. Such stratified data may assist clinicians and other professionals in the identification of disparities and distinguish efforts to improve quality from efforts to reduce disparities, which may not correlate without dedicated work. (3) Requirement of adoption of CERT All entities, clinicians, or other professionals participating in the Quality Payment Program shall be required to adopt 2015 certified electronic health record technology (as so defined) as a condition of participating in the Quality Payment Program. (c) Quality improvement activities The Administrator, upon yearly review of the Quality Payment Program, shall add quality improvement activities that implement the Culturally and Linguistically Accessible Standards (CLAS) standards as Improvement Activities under the Quality Payment Program. 443. Development and testing of disparity reducing delivery and payment models (a) In general The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation established under section 1115A of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1315a ) (in this section referred to as the CMI ) shall establish a dedicated fund to identify, test,