All Things Data

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...

As the leader of a company specializing in Healthcare Data Reporting and Analytics and the handling of vast amounts’ of patient data, I often get the question, “Who owns my data?”

As many of you know, there have been a number of federal regulatory developments concerning the required collection of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SO/GI) information within recent months. The new requirements are incorporated in HRSA UDS...

We recently discussed value sets – the lists of codes that are used to define data elements for CQMs. You're all probably familiar with the use of CPT codes to define services and procedures, and ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes to define diagnoses, but...

In the first "Anatomy of a Measure" post we discussed the three components of a clinical quality measure (CQM): measure logic, value sets and attribution. Today we're going to jump into measure logic – the "ANDs" and "ORs" that constitute a CQM.