# Improve & analyze
URL: https://docs.awellhealth.com/docs/improve-and-analyse

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.awellhealth.com/llms.txt).



A care flow can run exactly as designed and still not work. This section covers how to tell the
difference: what to improve, whether the improvement happened, where patients drop off, and where
integrations fail.

This is the **Monitor & Prove** stage of the [CareOps lifecycle](/docs/get-started): the point where a care
flow stops being a plan and starts producing evidence about whether it worked, which feeds the next round
of design.

## Start before building, not after [#start-before-building-not-after]

These pages belong at the beginning of the work rather than the end. Deciding what should change,
and how it will be measured, is far cheaper before a care flow exists than after it has been running for
six months against a number nobody agreed on.

* [Decide what to improve](/docs/improve-and-analyse/decide-what-to-improve). Turn a direction into a
  metric and a target, and pick the change worth making.
* [Awell Score](/docs/improve-and-analyse/awell-score). Pick a validated instrument to produce the
  number, from a CE-marked library of more than 170.
* [Know whether it worked](/docs/improve-and-analyse/know-whether-it-worked). State the change as a
  hypothesis, test it, and translate the result into money.

## Seeing what is happening now [#seeing-what-is-happening-now]

* [Ask Shelly about your care flows](/docs/improve-and-analyse/instant-care-flow-insights-with-shelly).
  Ask questions of care flow data in plain English instead of waiting on a query.
* [Flow Path](/docs/improve-and-analyse/flow-path). See where patients progress and where they drop off.
* [Debug integrations with Monitor](/docs/improve-and-analyse/debug-integrations-with-monitor).
  Find third-party connections that have stopped working.

Shelly also drafts form questions while a care flow is being built, which is a design task covered in
[Build forms with Shelly](/docs/design-care-flows/build-forms-with-shelly).

## Topics without a page yet [#topics-without-a-page-yet]

Dashboards and the visualizations available out of the box have no page yet. For those, email
[support@awellhealth.com](mailto:support@awellhealth.com).

Panels is covered under [Care delivery](/docs/run-care-flows/what-is-panels).