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...
Hello again. Here’s a hypothetical scenario that will help to illustrate the importance of using problems and assessments correctly to ensure your providers are properly credited for all care provided.
As many clinical quality measures (CQMs) focus on patients with specific diagnoses, identifying patients with an “active diagnosis” is extremely important. It’s often difficult to determine which patients belong to a particular diagnosis population....
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.
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...
