What’s New ?
- Group Notification
- Email notifications have been created for the following scenarios:
- When a HDC Discover user has been invited to join a member group
- When an HDC Discover organization has been invited to join an organization group. In such cases, the Clinic Admin for that organization will receive the email notification.
- Email notifications have been created for the following scenarios:
- Also, the HDC user will have the ability to update their notification settings for Group Invites:
- With respect to group invites, when an HDC user invites a member /organization to a group, it will be required from the user to send a message via the Comment field to the respective invitees.
Improvements
- The description of the sharing invite has been updated to say HDC Discover
- Measures
- As part of improving our description of measures, the Notes field has been updated with new sets of measure codes along with updating the metadata (Name, Description, Numerator and Denominator) to improve consistency (See examples below)
| Name | Description | Numerator | Denominator | HDC Discover – Notes |
| ACE inhibitor use – age 65+ | The percentage of active patients, 65 years and older, with an active medication for angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors excluding combinations recorded in the EMR. | Number of active patients, 65 years and older, with an active medication for ACE inhibitor excluding combinations recorded in the EMR. | Number of active patients, 65 years and older. | Where ACE Inhibitor is a medication with the following codes:
ATC: starting with C09A or C09B |
| Alcohol use disorder prevalence | The percentage of active patients with alcohol use disorder including alcohol dependence syndrome and alcohol abuse (based on the problem list) recorded in the EMR. | Number of active patients with alcohol use disorder (based on the problem list) recorded in the EMR. | Number of active patients recorded in the EMR. | Where Alcohol Use Disorder means a patient has at least one of the following codes listed in their problem list.
ICD9: starting with 303 or 305 excluding 303.03, 303.93 and 305.03 |
| Patients age 12 to 19 with alcohol use disorder seen in past year | The percentage of active patients between 12 and 19 years old who have alcohol use disorder (based on problem list) and have had at least one visit recorded in the EMR within the past year. | Number of active patients between 12 and 19 years old who have alcohol use disorder (based on the problem list) and have had at least one visit recorded in the EMR within the past year. | Number of active patients between 12 and 19 years old who have alcohol use disorder (based on the problem list) recorded in the EMR. | Where Alcohol Use Disorder means a patient has at least one of the following codes listed in their problem list.
ICD9: starting with 303 or 305 excluding 303.03, 303.93 and 305.03 |
| Patients age 20+ with alcohol use disorder seen in past year | The percentage of active patients, 20 years and older, who have alcohol use disorder (based on the problem list) and have had at least one visit recorded in the EMR within the past year. | Number of active patients, 20 years and older, who have alcohol use disorder (based on the problem list) and have had at least one visit recorded in the EMR within the past year. | Number of active patients, 20 years and older, who have alcohol use disorder (based on the problem list) as recorded in the EMR. | Where Alcohol Use Disorder means a patient has at least one of the following codes listed in their problem list.
ICD9: starting with 303 or 305 excluding 303.03, 303.93 and 305.03 |