New Questions and Answers tool available

January 9, 2012

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a new Questions and Answers tool for Inpatient Hospital Reporting (HR).

The new tool is accessible from the Questions and Answers sidebar in the right column of the QualityNet home page. (A link to the Questions and Answers tool for Outpatient Hospital Reporting participants, as well as for the Quality Improvement Organization community, can be found in the same sidebar.)

All Hospital Inpatient Reporting questions and answers from the previous QualityNet Quest database have been migrated to the new system.

A nine-minute recorded training session is available to familiarize users with the new Questions and Answers tool.

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