Medical practice leaders cited multiple, continued administrative challenges with reporting data for Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), according to a survey released Feb. 17 by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).
The 2010 proposed rule for Medicare payments in the physician fee schedule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in July poses serious threats to nuclear cardiology practices and the patients they serve, according to the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC). The comment period about the proposed CMS changes closes Aug. 31.
The American College of Radiology (ACR), in conjunction with the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), is seeking comments on eight performance measures developed for epilepsy.
Included in the updated in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Physicians Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) specifications for 2009 quality measures are two stroke imaging measures—Measures 10 and 11—that have been reported by diagnostic radiologists since 2007.
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The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) has called on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to speed up the process through which data can be reported via EHR for the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) P4P Program.
Health IT software developer iMedica has released Patient Relationship Manager 2009, the latest iteration of its EHR and practice management (PM) solution.
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) has posted the Measure Applicability Validation process for 2009 Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), which will be used to determine satisfactory PQRI reporting for participants who achieve a reporting rate at or above 80 percent for each of fewer than three measures submitted.
GE Healthcare IT has launched an initiative to simplify physician participation in Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) and released its Centricity Business version 4.3.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.