Question posed by our physician leadership: Is anyone else having a problem with their CMS bundles when it comes to a low MAP. Our EMR captures every vital sign and if the auto-calculated MAP falls only momentarily to 64, it will trigger our data abstractors to establish a diagnosis of hypotension and put the patient into the severe sepsis category without necessarily having any of the other organ dysfunction criteria for the diagnosis. This results in a fall out on the bundle and makes us non-compliant from CMS data collection purposes. Has anyone else had a similar EMR issue and if so, how did you deal with it?
Thanks! Kathy Nelson, MBA, CPHQ, RHIA Public Data Manager Advocate Health Care Center for Health Information Services (CHIS) 3075 Highland Parkway, Suite 600 Downers Grove, IL 60515 P: 630- 929-6782 (Internal: 55-6782) [email protected] This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail (or the person responsible for delivering this document to the intended recipient), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, printing or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please respond to the individual sending the message and permanently delete the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout thereof.
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