On any given morning in a busy health center, providers walk into exam rooms ready to deliver care, but the ability to optimize that care during the visit often depends on what information is immediately visible. Too often critical information that impacts patient health, like overdue screenings, unresolved referrals and health-related social needs, lives outside the EHR workflow—buried in dashboards or post-visit reports. In risk-based contracts, those blind spots can cost organizations significantly in revenue, accuracy, and care coordination.
The Azara EHR Plug-In was created to surface and help mitigate these data inconsistencies, bringing the missing information to where it really matters, within the EHR workflow, at the point of care. With the newest features designed to help providers easily identify risk factors that need to be addressed and properly coded at the point-of-care, providers can now close important RAF coding gaps with the click of a button, making the EHR Plug-In even more powerful.
Risk Adjustment Reimagined at the Point of Care
Risk adjustment is only as accurate as the diagnoses captured each calendar year. When chronic conditions aren’t documented or reassessed during patient visits, RAF scores fall, reimbursement drops, and future care management resources become misaligned. Traditionally, health centers have relied on retrospective chart review to identify these gaps. By that point, the opportunity may have already passed.
Azara’s EHR Plug-In surfaces opportunities to assess these patient conditions directly at the point of care during the patient’s visit, without having to navigate away from the patient’s chart in the EHR. With the addition of RAF Coding Gap actions, clinicians can dismiss conditions that are no longer applicable, defer those needing further review, or add confirmed diagnoses directly to the EHR with a single click.
Immediacy matters. When coding accuracy moves upstream into the encounter itself, organizations reduce administrative burden, strengthen documentation integrity, and improve risk recapture—all without disrupting clinician workflow.
Azara Healthcare Releases New Risk Adjustment Capabilities in EHR Plug-In for athenaOne via the athenahealth Marketplace
A Clearer Picture of the Patient—And the Population
The EHR Plug-In’s value lies in both its technical integration and its immediate impact on patient care. Providers gain a more complete, actionable picture of each patient as soon as they open a chart and launch the Plug-In. Instead of sifting through data or relying on memory, they see the insights that matter most: conditions requiring evaluation, care gaps that affect outcomes, and chronic diseases that need annual reassessment and recapture.
This creates a more coordinated and consistent strategy to value-based care:
- Conditions are documented in real time.
- Opportunities are clearly surfaced and actionable.
- Missed diagnoses don’t slip into the next year.
- Visibility into patient risk and care needs is enhanced.
- Patients receive more precise, complete assessments.
- Providers spend less time cross-checking systems and more time having meaningful conversation.
- Accurate coding minimizes the need for downstream claim corrections.
The result is smoother patient experience and a measurable improvement in organizational performance, because the work is happening where it belongs: during the visit.
Azara Insight: A recent blog shared that, “health centers utilizing the EHR Plug-in in 2024 saw a 1.9% improvement in their year-to-year risk recapture, compared to a 0.3% increase for health centers without the Plug-in. These results indicate that implementing the DRVS EHR Plug-in is associated with a 1.6% improvement in risk recapture.”
Why it Matters Now
As value-based contracts become more complex and tied to accurate, timely documentation, tools that integrate analytics into clinicians’ daily workflows are no longer optional—they’re essential. With the latest enhancement in Azara’s EHR Plug-In for athenaOne, adding a RAF coding gap’s diagnosis code directly to the patient’s chart with a single click doesn’t just surface data—it transforms the point of care into the core of your risk-adjustment strategy.
A Smarter Way to Capture Complexity
By bringing Azara’s data intelligence into the EHR, safety-net providers are empowered to improve documentation accuracy, reduce administrative burden, and strengthen both financial and clinical performance.
Every patient visit is an opportunity to document the full picture of patient health, close gaps before they widen, and safeguard the resources needed to care for the most complex populations. The Azara EHR Plug-In makes those opportunities visible and actionable at the moments they matter most.
To learn more about how the Azara EHR Plug-In can benefit your organization, contact solutions@azarahealthcare.com, or your client success manager.
