EHR vendors commit to optometry data registry
In an effort to improve primary eye care in the United States, six EHR vendors have committed to providing anonymous patient diagnosis, disease and outcome information to an American Optometric Association (AOA) registry.
Those six vendors are: Crystal Practice Management, Eyecare Advantage by Compulink Business Systems, Eyefinity EHR, MaximEyes by First Insight, Practice Director EHR by Williams Group, and RevolutionEHR by Health Innovation Technologies.
AOA’s Measures and Outcomes Registry for Eyecare (MORE) will integrate data from physicians’ EHR systems to provide a systematic way of collecting patient data that helps enhance outcomes, procedures and standards of practice, according to a release. MORE also will serve as a secure database to help doctors report necessary Medicare data to increase payments and avoid penalties.
The AOA represents about 39,000 doctors of optometry.
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