Monthly news & updates for Direct Difference, Inc Abstractors
October 2019
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Direct Difference, Inc Exceeds Registry Expectations
Direct Difference, Inc abstractions were recently audited by NCDR for ACTION registry, which is the MI registry now called CPMI. Direct Difference, Inc. abstracted all of the cases for the year 2018 that was selected for audit. We recently received the preliminary results back.
The preliminary results are
Exceeds Registry Expectations
, with a match rate of 97.18%.
Exceeds Registry Expectations
is an exemplary status only a few receive. Most audits fall within Meets Expectations with a match rate of 85% to 95%.
Exceeds registry expectations is for sites that have a mismatch rate less than 5%.
Congratulations Direct Difference, Inc. CPMI abstractors!!!
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Happy Birthday!
Ashley Stubblefield - October 8
Julie Daniels - October 11
Suzanne Egger - October 13
Karen Poeppel - October 27
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Data Abstraction / Registry Management / Consulting Direct Difference is the nation's leading health care management consulting firm. We're also the first company to specialize in the field of data abstraction and core measure for health care....
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Invisible Labor, Revealed: How To Balance Household...
When it comes to running your household, who's keeping tabs on all the moving parts like those never-ending grocery lists, birthday parties, carpool schedules, laundry day, and/or doctor appointments? Sometimes the list can seem endless. If your...
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What's A Mental Model? Your Shortcut To Being More...
Everyone has their own way of looking at the world. The way you view your world and everything in it (yourself, your job, your relationships, your goals...literally everything) is unique-you're experiencing it through a lens typically constructed ...
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Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine found adults who were overweight or obese and participated in a weight-loss intervention that included gamification had greater increases in physical activity than those in programs that did not have a competitive element. Participants wore tracking devices connected to a smartphone app and were randomly assigned to a support, collaboration or competitive gamification cohort, and those in the gamification cohort maintained gains in physical activity during follow up.
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Certificates and Continuing Education
IHI Open School online courses offer more than 35 continuing education credits for nurses, physicians, and pharmacists; Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Part 2 for select medical specialty Boards; and a Basic Certificate in Quality and Safety.
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www.ihi.org
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FDA Developing Guidance on Real-World Data Quality...
As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grapples with how to use real-world data for regulatory decisions, two FDA officials wrote in a perspective published last Friday in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology that the...
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www.raps.org
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Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) Program
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting (OQR) Program has selected up to 500 hospitals for validation of chart-abstracted measures for the calendar year (CY) 2021 Annual Payment Update (APU) determination.
The list appears in the second sidebar located on the right side of the page, under the
Hospitals Selected for Outpatient Data Validation
header.
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Organize Your Inbox with These 7 Gmail Filters
Banish newsletters, marketing emails, and spam from your inbox forever. Automatically move emails from important contacts into a priority queue. Find old, unimportant emails, and batch delete them to free up space in your mailbox. A few Gmail...
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Create rules to filter your emails
You can manage your incoming mail using Gmail's filters to send email to a label, or archive, delete, star, or automatically forward your mail. Create a filter In the search box at the top, click the Down arrow . Enter your search criteria.
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Webinar: GWTG Heart Failure and Stroke, Target: Type 2 Diabetes PMT Updates
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Please join the American Heart Association’s Quality and Health IT Team as they discuss the recent Target: Type 2 Diabetes updates to both the Heart Failure PMT and Stroke PMT registries. In this technical webinar, AHA staff will discuss the new Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll program, the HF and Stroke form updates that have been created to support the program, and provide answers to your questions during a Q/A session.
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Thank you
for being an essential part of our success!
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Excellence
Expertise
Experience
That’s how we make a Direct Difference!
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Mandy Budny, RN, MSN, CPHQ | Direct Difference, Inc | 520-442-0016 mandy.budny@directdifference.com
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