The CMS Abstraction and Reporting Tool (CART)-Inpatient 4.11 has been released and is available on the QualityNet website, http://www.qualitynet.org/. This release includes the addition of one new measure set; IMM-Immunization to the existing measure sets; AMI-Acute Myocardial Infarction, ED-Emergency Department, HF-Heart Failure, PN-Pneumonia, and SCIP-Surgical Care Improvement Project.
Please be aware that CART-Inpatient 4.11 is not backward compatible with CART-Inpatient 4.10.2 or earlier and may not be installed in the same directory. CART Inpatient 4.11 is compatible with CART-Outpatient 1.7 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 – Inpatient/ Data Collection (& CART)/CART Downloads & Info. Please note that with this release the CART – Inpatient User Guide has been revised.
