Cerner
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Selects Cerner to Participate in Quality Reporting Initiative
Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, May 12th, 2008
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced it selected Cerner (NASDAQ: CERN) as one of six healthcare information technology suppliers to participate in a project that will test information technology solutions to facilitate the submission of Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) measures data gathered from electronic medical records (EMRs). The testing project will use the data elements needed for five PQRI measures (three related to diabetes, one to coronary-artery disease and one to heart failure). The submission of data gathered from EMRs may serve as one of several alternative ways eligible professionals choosing to report PQRI measures could submit...
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