Version 3.18 was released to production on October 24th 2025. Please do not hesitate to contact our support email support@hdcbc.ca should you have any questions or comments about any of these changes.
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What’s New?
Mental Health and Substance Use Measures
We’ve introduced new mental health and substance use measures and expanded age ranges for existing ones. These measures will help users better understand the impact of mental health and substance use across their panel. The addition of the child (0-12) and youth (13-19) age ranges, support the CYMH and Substance Use Community of Practice and the related UBC-CPD online module.
To access a specific measure, simply click on its name, and after logging in, you’ll be directed to the corresponding page within the HDC Discover application.
Alcohol Use Disorder
We’ve introduced a new measure in support of Health Quality BC’s Approaches and Pharmacotherapies for Patients Living with Alcohol Use Disorder (APPLAUD) action series. Together with our alcohol use disorder prevalence measures, this new measure offers insight into treatment patterns by identifying whether patients are prescribed guideline-based medications.
| Measures | MOIS | OSCAR | PROFILE | MED ACCESS | MED ACCESS – LEGACY |
| AUD and prescribed naltrexone, acamprosate, topiramate, or gabapentin in the past year | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW |
Concurrent Conditions
We have introduced the following measures in the efforts to standardize the way we structure concurrent condition measures. These measures have replaced “Anxiety and phobias and substance use disorder” and “Mood disorder or psychotic disorder and substance use disorder”, respectively.
| Measures | MOIS | OSCAR | PROFILE | MED ACCESS | MED ACCESS – LEGACY |
| Anxiety and phobias with substance use disorder* | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW |
| Mood disorder or psychotic disorder with substance use disorder* | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW |
Active Patient & Attachment Measures
The following measures have been added to HDC Discover to provide additional insight into patient attachment and provider interactions with their panel patients.
| Measures | MOIS | OSCAR | PROFILE | MED ACCESS | MED ACCESS – LEGACY |
| Patients with “active” status who have a visit in the past 3 months | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW |
| Patients with “active” status who have a visit in the past year | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW |
| Patients marked active with a designated MRP | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW |
| Provider’s encounters with panel patients in the past 3 months | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW |
| Panel patients seen in the past 3 months | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW | NEW |
Measure Improvements
To improve the consistency of measure metadata, we have updated the following measures:
| Previous Measure Name | NEW Measure Name |
| Percentage of encounters of a provider with panel patients in past year | Provider’s encounters with panel patients in the past year |
| Percentage of encounters of panel patients with their MRP in last year | Encounters of panel patients with their MRP in the past year |
Note: For more information or questions, please contact support@hdcbc.ca.