All Things Data

Over our nearly five-year history, Azara has deployed dozens of database releases that contain hundreds of new or modified clinical quality measures (CQMs). Most people look forward to each new release as an opportunity to add features and fix bugs...

Every business knows that billing delays cause payment delays. Besides the obvious impact, health centers must consider something more: Delays in your billing department create clinical quality measure (CQM) problems. Azara has recently seen an...

In my previous post, we explored how changes to a health center’s workflows can cause mapping issues that must be fixed with new data extracts. In this post, we’ll discuss a different type of mapping issue that affects a center’s data when it...

UDS “Season” 2016 is in the books!

I hope this year’s filing was easier than last year’s and you felt more confident than ever about your submission. As I watched all the activity in our office over the past 75 days, I was once again awed by the...

World AIDS Day was Dec. 1st, but the effort to improve the quality of HIV care and reduce the number of new infections is in full swing at New York health centers, the Community Health Care Association of New York State (CHCANYS) and Azara.

In my previous post, I introduced the concepts of measure logic, value sets and attribution. Today we're going to do a deeper dive into value sets. We're going to look at how three different specifications (UDS, HEDIS, and Meaningful Use) define...