All Things Data

The team at Azara loves to learn about the incredible impact that the Community Health Centers (CHCs) we work with are making within their communities.

Over the last 4 years, we’ve seen the performance on Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Measure (CMS 138v6 / NQF 0028) rates increase, but recently you may have noticed a drop in your performance and wondered ‘what’s happening?’ Did something...

On July 12th, 2018 CMS took an uncharacteristically big step forward in embracing new technology with their release of the proposed fee schedule for 2019. In the proposed rule, CMS not only adds new codes for Medicare Telehealth services but also...

Chronic disease. This is one of the biggest health challenges the United States faces as a nation. Despite some pockets of success in population health designed to manage chronic disease, as a country and as a system, we are failing. Compared to our...

I love charts, and luckily for me, my job at Azara involves creating a lot of charts. The best kinds of charts are those that have multiple story lines and inspire further investigation and thought, and I believe the following two are spectacular...

Colorectal cancer screening is not anyone’s idea of fun – provider or patient. Colorectal cancer screening measure results are not easy to increase because it requires patients to do their part and it's a measure most Community Health Center’s...