Bayer announced a collaboration with Alara Imaging during the annual AHRA conference in Orlando, Florida to integrate Alara's software with Bayer’s Calantic Digital Solution Platform to support compliance with new Hospital Quality Reporting electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs).

Alara facilitates secure data transfer from EHR, RIS, and PACS for CMS quality measure calculations and reporting, ensuring health systems meet new patient safety standards.

Radiation doses from CT scans vary significantly across different patients and hospitals. Excessive radiation doses pose a modifiable health risk, which can be mitigated through proper monitoring and feedback. CMS has established standardized methods to monitor diagnostic CT performance, aiming to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure. These measures involve eCQMs that utilize Alara's software to extract and analyze data from radiology EHRs.
“Bayer is committed to helping Radimetrics customers by engaging with Alara to support their institutions' compliance with the new Hospital Quality Reporting eCQMs by leveraging the Alara gateway,” stated Rich Dewit, global head of digital solutions at Bayer.

Alara Imaging Inc. focuses on advancing medical imaging to improve patient outcomes. The company acts as a measure steward and provides secure software for CMS quality payment programs.

In June, Bayer entered a collaboration with Rad AI to bring radiology speech recognition reporting, AI-driven patient follow-up management, and automated radiology impression generation technologies to Bayer’s Calantic Digital Solutions platform.

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