Hey all! I’m working on implementing the AMC reports for MU-2 certification, specifically Measure 20: Imaging.
We need to be able to count the number of images ordered, and need a way to identify a particular lab order as a radiological image. Rod had the idea of using the existing LOINC coding standard, but we’d need a list, or database of LOINC codes that fall into the category of imaging. Is this a good approach? Is utilizing LOINC codes for such purpose a feasible task (or too complicated?) Does anyone have this information?
Menu Set Measure 3 stipulates that the Radiological image and accompanying information or a link to the same be present in OpenEMR. There does not appear to be a requirement that the test be named per se. It should not be so difficult to count an scanned image & report each time they are added to a new category, Diagnostic Imaging, in Documents.
The 147 page LOINC Manual gives no guidance where in the 14.1 MB zip file the Radiology section is located. The Quick Start pages are equally opaque.
It seems that it would be far simpler to use the Radiology section of CPT codes instead of LOINC, notwithstanding the fact that no codes are required according to the above cited CMS document.
I did see that article. They won’t be done until March 2015.
The Radiological Society of North America owns Radlex like the AMA owning CPT codes. It’s definitely not open source. No cost information about the result of the collaboration.
If Ken does not really need to name each Radiological study, all of this is moot.
The wiki is out of date. We plan on using rod’s native lab ok interfaces
for MU2.
Tony McCormick
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