Each year, health center program grantees report on their performance using the measures defined in the Uniform Data System (UDS). It’s the time of year when the DRVS support team starts to receive UDS questions and provide assistance to our users....
Much of the focus in data reporting and quality improvement projects is on which measures to track and for which patients, however, an equally important criterion is which period type to track and understanding the results that choice will yield....
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...
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...
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...
