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Provation | Automated ADR
Are gastroenterologists withdrawing colonoscopes too quickly, or fail-
ing to be as thorough as they should be? The national standards for
adenoma detection rates are 20% for women and 30% for men. Using
pathology lab reports and artificial intelligence, the Automated ADR, a
new software package from Provation, tracks and reports adenoma
detection rates and colonoscope withdraw times, eliminating the need
to calculate them manually with data from multiple systems.
As a quality measure, that's something that CMS and others are
looking closely at. And not only are some doctors starting to advertise
their adenoma detection rates, patients are becoming savvy enough to
ask about them.
