CRS 2008 (v8.0 & v.8.0 p1)
CRS VERSION 8.0 PATCH 1
Key enhancements included in CRS Version 8.0 Patch 1 are shown below. It is estimated Patch 1 will be released on July 15, 2008.
- Prenatal HIV Testing: Rename to HIV Screening, add new denominator for User Population patients 13-64, add measure for number of HIV tests provided to User Population patients during the Report Period, remove HIV counseling numerator.
- Tobacco Cessation: Inclusion of developmental logic in the Other National Measures Report that may be used as the logic for GPRA 2009 reporting.
- Depression Screening, Alcohol Screening (FAS Prevention), and ASBI: Addition of new V Measurement codes and new CPT codes for depression and alcohol screening to these and other topics that report on depression and alcohol screening.
- New Executive Order Quality Transparency Measures Report: Used for national web reporting for all Federal IHS facilities of phase I quality measures harmonized with the VA and DoD.
- New Demo Patient Functionality: Ability to create a search template of patients from within CRS that represent the reporting facility's test patients. User will then enter the name of the search template at a new site parameter and CRS will exclude the patients from all CRS reports.
- CMS Report: Add data elements to the patient lists for AMI, Heart Failure, Pneumonia, and Surgical Care Improvement Project such as patient's race, zip code, insurance information, and additional visit information. Change reporting periods to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarter reporting so they coincide with the CMS report periods and change patient population default from AI/AN only to all patients.
CRS VERSION 8.0
CRS 8.0 was released nationally on April 1, 2008.
Click this link to view the CRS 8.0 Selected Measures Report Performance Measures Definitions and Logic document. [PDF]
Key enhancements included in CRS Version 8.0 are shown below.
- Split the National GPRA Report and all related reports and patient lists into separate reports: National GPRA Report and a new Other National Measures Report.
- All GPRA-related changes
- New GPRA Measure Forecast Patient List Linked to the Scheduling Package
- Allow user to enter a date range
- Run list by patient name, clinic name, or facility/division for patients with scheduled visits during that date range
- Apply the basic logic of the National GPRA Report
- Users then have a list of all the GPRA screenings/tests the patient is due for at his/her upcoming visit
- Different from current clinical reminders in EHR since not all of the logic is the same as the CRS logic
- 4 New Performance Measure Topics
- Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Screening
- Patients diagnosed with a key STI ( i.e. GC, Chlamydia, syphilis, herpes) who are tested for other key STIs.
- Heart Failure and Evaluation of LVS Function
- Patients discharged for heart failure who had their LVS function evaluated prior to arrival, during hospitalization or have it planned for after discharge.
- Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention (ASBI) in the ER
- Palliative Care
- Redesign the existing CMS Report to split it into two separate reports for each of the CMS measures, where one report applies denominator exclusion logic and the second does not. Also provide a list for each measure category (e.g. Heart Failure) that lists all patients in that measure set with no exclusion logic applied.
- Make CMS logic changes to existing measures
- Add 4 new hospital measures to the existing CMS report. At this time, the measures are expected to be:
- Pneumonia
- Appropriate initial antibiotic selection
- Influenza vaccination
- Surgical Infection Prevention
- Prophylactic antibiotic received within 1 hour prior to surgical incision
- Prophylactic antibiotics discontinued within 24 hours after surgery end time
- Make changes to the logic for HEDIS-based measures. This includes both HEDIS 2006 and 2007 logic changes.
- Update CRS logic to look for patient education in two ways: 1) for codes with the disease state (current method) and 2) for the corresponding diagnoses mapped to that disease state.
CRS 2008 DOCUMENTATION
CRS 2008 Training (v.8.0)
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