All Things Data

In August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $125 million in Quality Improvement grant awards awarded to 1,352 community health centers. Funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), health centers...

In a previous post, we dove into some of the nitty-gritty on "value sets." Recall that these are lists of standard codes (e.g., ICD-10-CM, CPT) that define a specific clinical concept. In this post, I want to provide a review of the evolution of...

When it comes to clinical quality measures, “exclusions” are a surprisingly tricky concept. The basic idea is simple - some patients should be excluded from a quality measure. Think adult weight screening measure and pregnant patients or the breast...

Chronic disease. This is one of the biggest health challenges the United States faces as a nation. Despite some pockets of success in population health designed to manage chronic disease, as a country and as a system, we are failing. Compared to our...

We deal with a lot of data here at Azara. I mean a lot of data. We gather information from hundreds of unique sources and collate this data into the numerous reports and measures that our customers use in the DRVS application. In a perfect world,...

One of the most basic components of most clinical quality measures (CQM's) is a check of the patient's age. For an indicator like the Breast Cancer Screening measure, of course, we only want to include women within a clinically relevant age range....