Guest guest Posted July 8, 2006 Report Posted July 8, 2006 , How are you doing the module in e-mds? It seems like I will have to load every individual patient, although I have not yet played much with the program. Let me know what pearls you come up with. P.S. I have my concerns about collecting and sending in the data voluntarily. I think to have an idea of how you as a doc are doing in terms of chronic disease management is cool, but I think giving it to the insurers too early sets a precedent that we don’t need to be compensated for the extra time and energy involved in chronic disease management. Perhaps I’m paranoid, but I wonder if a bunch of us start sending in the data then it becomes the norm and not the exception and no more reimbursement is given even though it increases overhead. What are your thoughts? Re: DAQ-IT Fergusson: e-Mds has developed DAQ-IT reports for CMS. I have yet to see real data, but am interested in how to use these to prospectively manage patients health. The problem is that the data is based on ICD-9 and specific CPT codes. There is a real gap in actual patient compliance, results of say lipid pane, and actual last blood pressure. I am looking to prospectively manage all my hypertensive patients, followed by hyperlipidemia, and then diabetes. Soon I will try to address preventive medicine as well. Do you think the DAQ-IT information will provide registry type function for these conditions? Or is the information just a surrogate for quality care? Egly, M.D. Sneak preview the all-new Yahoo.com. It's not radically different. Just radically better. Quote
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