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....
Jim Lee talks about his recent experience at Massachusetts digital health innovation events.
Finding a specific measure in Azara DRVS through the usual navigation methods can sometimes be a daunting task. This is especially true when you have hundreds of them to choose from. Take this long list of measures and stick them into the second...
