During its 2016 annual meeting last month, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) announced key milestones regarding its IRIS® (Intelligent Research in Sight) Registry, which provides ophthalmologists with clinical benchmarks and practice patterns on more than 28 million U.S. patients and 100 million patient visits.
From January 1, 2013 to June 30, 2016, ophthalmologists reportedly submitted data to the IRIS Registry on patients with the most common eye diseases, including:
- 3 million patients with open-angle glaucoma
- 4 million patients with cataracts
- 3 million patients with age-related macular degeneration
- 3 million patients with diabetic retinopathy
The AAO also reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is evaluating the use of the IRIS Registry to establish a new eye health surveillance system to provide population estimates of vision loss, eye diseases, eye health disparities and barriers and facilitators to access to eye care. And over the past year, ophthalmologists have saved more than $24 million in penalty avoidances by submitting quality information through the IRIS Registry to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Physician Quality Reporting System.
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Source: American Academy of Ophthalmology