2016 IRIS® Registry summary data report for the Vision & Eye Health Surveillance System

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• Corporate Authors:
  NORC (Organization)‏ ; National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Diabetes Translation.
• Description:
  Compiled by the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), IRIS® Registry (Intelligent Research In Sight) is the nation’s first comprehensive eye disease clinical registry. The IRIS® Registry enables ophthalmologists to use clinical data to improve care delivery and patient outcomes and help practices meet requirements of the federal Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS). The IRIS® Registry uses HIPAA-compliant methods to collect data from patient records directly from practices’ individual EMR systems. These EMR systems periodically report health record data based on the IRIS® Registry data fields on a nightly or weekly basis. The system tracks diagnosed disorders based on ICD-9/ICD-10 codes and also includes procedures and visual acuity measures and other clinical data documented in the medical record. In 2016 there were 2,888 practices with a total of 11,374 ophthalmologists, optometrists, and other providers contracted with the IRIS® Registry.
  
  IRIS® Registry coverage began in 2013, but sample size has increased over time. As of 2016, IRIS® Registry contained more than 24.19 million patients and 88 million encounters. The IRIS® Registry collects data from a convenience sample of more than 50% of ophthalmologists nationally.
  
  The main advantages of IRIS® Registry are its wide coverage and availability of diagnostic test results such as acuity values. However, IRIS® Registry is also a new data system and has not been externally evaluated for data completeness, reliability, or validity. The IRIS® Registry team has provided summary level frequencies and prevalence values to the VEHSS system and has not granted access to person level data. This limits the ability of the VEHSS team to assess the quality of IRIS® Registry data.
  
  IRISDataSummaryReportVEHSS.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Datasets As Topic Eye Diseases Health Services Research Insurance, Health Insurance Claim Review Medicare Public Health Surveillance Vision Disorders/diagnosis Vision Screening
• Document Type:
  Report
• Name as Subject:
  Vision & Eye Health Surveillance System ; VSP Global
• Pages in Document:
  45 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:fbc8e6d3a9272ac574c2fff0a5a2a6192414959210920677647f3721305ec042
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/118609/cdc_118609_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.46 MB ]