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I'd like to pose this question to other family medicine offices. I'm curious on which Alternate CQM's are other users collecting informationa with AC.

We are doing colonoscopy (NQF 0034), hypertension(NQF 0018), and low back pain (NQF 0052)

I was using HTN (18), mammo (0031), and pneumovax.

pneumovax might be less labor intensive than colonoscopy.
Maybe I should switch that one out. Our patients are all in the system for their colonoscopies. So I feel like I'm tracking redundant info on that measure, and I'm having to click that off on everyone. When instead, I could enlist my staff into doing the pneumovax update on everyone.....thanks for the inspiration Solodocmom!

Of course they are. But pneumovax doesn't prevent cancer!

Actually, colonoscopy itself does not prevent cancer, to my knowledge. Polyps must be removed (tattooing as an option apparently). On the other hand, Pneumovax does prevent some types of pneumonia.

Jon and John, true and true.

I have considered doing several of these. In running a report at 2 weeks in, I find that I am already scoring well on DM and Nephropathy, further, DM and BP is automatic and Back Pain and imaging is automatic. I have 100% on back pain - not ordering an image in 28 days. (I think this is funny, and indicative of the socialist micromanaging they are trying to do with our practices). I might as well let it run automatically on two of the measures!

The rare "biting my tongue twice in one thread".

Actually, its more fun when you let loose...

I'm getting rewarded for doing nothing! All I have to do is NOT order any back films! Just get an MRI on them all!

If I was a cynic I would say change order to other tab - type L spine x-ray with dx: lumbago and since it was not on AC coded radiology orders it would not count, but I am not a cynic.

I'm ordering all the imaging I want, using the "other" tab. It's not recognized by the EMR and thus I'm scoring 100%.