lugpa — HL7 International OID Registry
In 2008, when physician leaders of member urology practices began to recognize the need for a formal association to help meet the challenges of the future, the Large Urology Group Practice Association (LUGPA) was established with the purpose of enhancing communication among large groups, allowing for benchmarking of operations, promoting quality clinical outcomes, developing new opportunities, and improving advocacy in the legislative and regulatory arenas. LUGPA's mission is to provide urological surgeons practicing within the context of integrated group practices the means to access resources, technology and management tools that will enable them to furnish all services needed to care for patients with acute and chronic illnesses of the genitourinary system in an efficient, cost-effective and clinically superior manner, while using data collection to create parameters that demonstrate quality and value to patients, vendors, third party payors, legislators, and regulatory agencies. Clinical quality measures are limited for urology. LUGPA has collaborated with Oregon Urology Institute for measure submission and now LUGPA intends to directly submit measures to CMS which require the Measure Authoring Tool (MAT) to develop e-measures based on the measure specifications. This OID will be used for the MAT.