Alara and American College of Radiology Announce Initiative for Quality Payment Program Reporting
December 10, 2024 – Alara Imaging and the American College of Radiology (ACR) have announced a cooperative initiative for quality payment program reporting. Alara serves as measure steward for new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) quality payment program measures. The ACR serves as a leading quality clinical data registry (QCDR) to support radiologists and radiology groups with annual CMS Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting. Together, the two entities support efforts to optimize CMS reimbursement for radiologists while minimizing reporting burden.
Together, Alara Imaging and the American College of Radiology have created seamless technical integration through which Alara’s gateway serves as the point of integration with health systems to ingest, normalize, and calculate measure results within a health system firewall through its HITRUST certified software, and the ACR then securely receives and submits these results on behalf of radiologists to CMS along with other quality payment program measures. Alara’s Gateway has minimal requirements, best-in-class FHIR and DICOM connectivity, and installs in minutes.
“As a radiologist and long-time ACR member and volunteer leader, I’m excited about this preferred partnership’s opportunity to minimize burden for physicians and advance patient safety” said Marc Kohli, MD, co-founder of Alara.
To learn more about the American College or Radiology’s QCDR, please visit https://www.acr.org/Practice-Management-Quality-Informatics/Registries/Qualified-Clinical-Data-Registry.
To learn more about Alara and its informatics technology, please visit https://alaragateway.com/
Alara’s Gateway enables health systems and technology companies to seamlessly integrate solutions by serving as the local node for bi-directional image and data exchange between healthcare systems and modern technology companies. Alara’s Gateway streamlines the deployment, intake, modification, and uploading of images from healthcare sites, paving the way for clinical advancement opportunities both on premises and in the cloud.
