Release Notes:
Appendix G
Version 2010B
The following are available resources to those using the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and The Joint Commission Specification Manual for National Hospital Inpatient Quality Measures.
CMS Abstraction & Reporting Tool (CART)
For technical assistance with CART, please contact the QualityNet help desk at
qnetsupport@ifmc.sdps.org, or call 1-866-288-8912.
Healthcare Organizations
If you are an accredited healthcare organization with questions about National Quality Measures, ORYX requirements, etc., please contact Accreditation Operations at
oryx@jointcommission.org.
Medication Questions
If you have questions regarding medications, please go to the QualityNet web site
http://www.qualitynet.org and select “Quest” under “Frequently Asked Questions” to submit your questions. Quest is an online questions and answers database that allows for the submission and retrieval of questions and answers based on topic and keyword criterion.
If you have questions regarding medications applicable to measure sets that are collected for The Joint Commission only (i.e., Children’s Asthma), please submit them to
oryxcore@jointcommission.org
Performance Measurement Systems
If you are a performance measurement system with questions about National Quality Measures, please contact The Joint Commission’s Division of Quality Measurement and Research at
oryxcore@jointcommission.org.
Abstraction or Measure Questions
For questions you may go to one of the following websites and select “Quest” under “Frequently Asked Questions” to submit your questions. Quest is an online questions and answers database that allows for the submission and retrieval of questions and answers based on topic and keyword criterion.
Pregnancy and Children’s Asthma Measure Sets
If you have questions regarding the Pregnancy and Children’s Asthma Measure Sets, that are collected for The Joint Commission only, please submit them to
oryxcore@jointcommission.org.
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