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...
Over the past few years Azara has come across a large variety of clinical quality measures (CQMs). As with many things in the complicated health IT landscape, the devil is in the details. Even the simplest CQMs have gone through years of debate on...
As 2015 comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past year. And wow, what a year it’s been! From a purely geographical standpoint, the Azara team has visited clients, prospects and partners in 29 states. Not bad for a company...
Note: Fall is back to school time and my now 13-year-old son is comfortably situated in seventh grade. Last year's initial shock of middle school is long past. My getting back into the nightly homework swing with my son reminded me of a blog post I...
