CART-Outpatient Version 1.7 Release

 The CMS Abstraction and Reporting Tool (CART)-Outpatient 1.7 has been released and is available on the QualityNet website, http://www.qualitynet.org/. This release includes the addition of three new measure sets; ED-Throughput, Pain Management, and Stroke to the existing measure sets; Acute Myocardial Infarction, Chest Pain, and Surgery.

Please be aware that CART-Outpatient 1.7 is not backward compatible with CART-Outpatient 1.6.1 or earlier, and may not be installed in the same directory. CART-Outpatient 1.7 is compatible with CART-Inpatient 4.11 and may be installed in the same directory.

It is important that the user refers to the Installation Instructions, Release Notes, Known Issues, Edits, and User Guide documents located on the QualityNet website under Hospitals – Outpatient/ Data Collection (& CART)/CART Downloads & Info. Please note that with this release the CART – Outpatient User Guide has not been revised.