CMS Proposes New Quality Metric

CMS proposes changes in H&P rule.

CMS proposes new codes in 2014 fee schedule to benefit family physicians.

addition, AHRQ’s Improving Primary Care Initiative currently sponsors a number of initiatives related to improving care for patients with MCC, including work on: care coordination, team-based care, self-management support, clinical decision support, integration of behavioral/mental health with primary care, clinicalcommunity linkages, health information technology integration, and healthcare/sy...

A New Image Quality Assesment Metric

We study a variety of image deblocking algorithms for improving quality of visual signals degraded by blocking artifacts from compression. The image improvements afforded by these algorithms is measured using the PSNR, PSNR-B, and SSIM. Rather than relying on PSNR, which correlates poorly with subjective judgment, we propose a new Deblocking quality index that is sensitive to blocking artifacts...

A new quality metric for image fusion

We present three variants of a new quality metric for image fusion. The interest of our metrics, which are based on an image quality index recently introduced by Wang and Bovik in [1], lies in the fact that they do not require a ground-truth or reference image. We perform several simulations which show that our metrics are compliant with subjective evaluations and can therefore be used to compa...

CMS Pixel Data Quality Monitoring

We present the CMS Pixel Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) system. The concept and architecture are discussed. The monitored quantities are introduced, and the methods on how to ensure that the detector takes high quality data with large efficiency are explained. Finally we describe the automated data certification scheme, which is used to certify and classify the data from the Pixel detector for p...