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New and Noteworthy

Care Core Upload Timeline for 2010

NEW Revision of the Specifications Manual for Hospital Outpatient Department Quality Measures Version 3.0a has been announced

Encounter Dates (01/01/2010 through 06/30/2010)

The Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program (HOP QDRP)  has announced that Starting January 1, 2010, AMI and Chest Pain will be looked at as one Emergency Department measure topic when determining the sample size.  Data collection and submission procedures have not changed. Starting with your January 1, 2010 outpatient encounters forward, AMI and Chest Pain cases will be combined in order to determine if the 5 or fewer rule has been met. Data submission will be required if the AMI and Chest Pain cases combined are greater than 5 for the reporting quarter. The OPPS Data Submission reports and the Provider Participation Report (PPR) will continue to represent the ED populations as AMI and Chest Pain measure sets. Providers will continue to use the sampling methodology based on the three outpatient populations (AMI, CP, and Surgical). Also, please note that effective with January 1, 2010 encounters, submission of population and sampling values will not be edited on the combination of the measure sets.  

You obtain the new version of the specifications Manual at www.QualityNet.org

NEW CART - 4.7.2 Installation Patch for CART 4.7 Inpatient Version

Discharges (10/01/2009 throSugh 03/31/2010)

You can find this new patch on the QualityNet website, http://www.qualitynet.org. Note: If you have not yet upgraded to the new version of CART 4.7 there is a new 4.7.2 version that has the patch already included. It is mandatory CART 4.7 installation (4.7.2) patch be uploaded. The patch/upgrade is required for all users of CART-Inpatient. This release addresses issues identified recently that resulted in users not being able to complete abstractions within the tool.

There was an earlier Patch created called 4.7.1 includes the following updates:

Updates to the Help Screen (which support version 3.0C of the Specifications Manual for National Hospital Quality Measures for abstraction guidelines). For VTE Prophylaxis, Temperature, and Intentional Hypothermia. If you choose not to use the new patch please refer to the data element pages in the Specs Manual..

An new issue was identified and will be updated with the next release of CART 4.8. with SCIP VTE-1 and VTE-2 measures within the CART tool. “Surgery Length equal to sixty minutes” is going to an X bucket, instead of a B bucket.  Please note the QIO Clinical Warehouse correctly calculates these records to the B bucket.

Samantha Cobb-Dulworth for more details