CQR Notice: DOWNTIME January 10-11

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January 7, 2015

Dear Clinical Quality Reporting Customer,

We want to share with you an important downtime notice for Clinical Quality Reporting (CQR). This downtime is designed to accelerate turnaround times following some calculation requests, support PQRS-specific reporting and the download of large QRDA III files, and implement a number of other enhancements.

We expect to post release notes to the CQR section of the Centricity Practice Solution (CPS) and Centricity EMR (CEMR) Service portals on Monday January 12th.

Please be aware of the following:

  • We will bring CQR down for a short period starting early Saturday, January 10th, and we expect the system to be available for full use by the morning of Sunday, January 11th.
  • The CQR Dashboard will be unavailable early Saturday morning through that afternoon.
  • CQR ingestion processes will be suspended briefly for some customers druing that time.
  • For this Maintenance period, you do NOT need to turn off your CQR Channel in QIE nor your CQR subscription in the CPS or CEMR applications. However, we recommend you review QIE for errors that may have occurred during the downtime or as a result of configuration changes within the CQR application. Instructions for CQR and QIE Error Review have been posted to the Service Portal.

We will work expeditiously to make these updates, and we will post an announcement to the Service Portal when the system is available.

To receive notifications directly to your email account when we post these updates, please log in to the CQR section of the CPS or CEMR Service Portal, click on “follow” in the top right hand corner of the page, and check “InBox”. Should you need assistance in configuring your account to follow these pages, please read Getting Started: Following Products and Communities and Email or Stream Notifications?.

We thank you for your patience during this time. If you have any additional questions, please call Centricity Support Services at 1-888-436-8491.

Sincerely,

Peter Kinhan

Vice President & General Manager, Ambulatory Practice Solutions GE Healthcare IT