HDC Discover 2.14 Release Notes

These release notes contain supplemental information about Version 2.14 of HDC Discover. Please do not hesitate to contact our support email support@hdcbc.ca should you have any questions or comments about any of these changes.

What’s new?

For Wolf user

We are introducing two new measures:

  • Palliative/End of Life Prevalence
  • Chlamydia STD Prevalence in Females 15-24

For MedAccess user

We are introducing one new measure:

  • Palliative/End of Life Prevalence

Also, for data quality assurance purposes we are temporarily hiding four measures for Med Access users and will make them available once we ensure that the visualized data is accurate. These measures are:

  • Current tobacco use age 20+
  • Current tobacco use age 12-19
  • Patients age 12-19 with tobacco use documented in past 2 years
  • Patients age 20+ with tobacco use documented in past 2 years

For Profile users

We are introducing one new measure:

  • Palliative/End of Life Prevalence

Also, for data quality assurance purpose we are temporarily hiding one measure for Profile users and will make it available once we ensure that the visualized data is accurate:

  • Opioid use age 65+

 For all EMRs

We have updated the logic for recognizing a patient as having a certain problem. This change may affect all prevalence measures, as well as all measures that are limited for a group of patients with a certain diagnosis. The applied change is that “we do not check the text string entered as a diagnosis when a standard code (ICD9 or SNOMED-CT) is documented for that problem”.

This logic change will not affect you if you are coding the problem list of your patients using standard coding systems, but may affect your patients counts if you are using non-standard codes as an ICD9 code.

Please contact us if you see any drop in the value of your prevalence measures or any unexpected change in other affected measures.

If you login and do not see data for these measures, it is possible the clinic data is still being loaded.  Please contact support@hdcbc.ca with any questions.