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Where are the needed performance data?
- Outside the System (benefit from claims)
- Eye Exams, Labs, Pharmacies, ED Visits/admissions
- In the System, but relatively inaccessible
- Text portions of record
- Performance completed outside, noted
- Patient exclusion for measure, but not in "check box"
- Unlinked computerized systems; e.g.
- Echo lab—HF
- ETTs—CAD
- PFTs—asthma
- Or, they don't exist...
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