The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the data submission deadline for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) reporting mechanism of the 2016 Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) for the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) program. Individual eligible professionals (EPs), PQRS group practices, qualified clinical data registries (QCDRs), and qualified EHR data submission vendors (DSVs) now have until Friday, March 31 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time to submit 2016 EHR data via QRDA.
A new editorial in the Journal of Oncology Practice (JOP) from Arif Kamal, MD, MBA, MHS, Chair of ASCO’s Quality of Care Committee, discusses the importance of oncologists using available data to explore what patients and caregivers value most in cancer care delivery.
