Bringing HEDIS Measures To Life

Catalyze Change Through the Interdisciplinary Coordination of Diabetes Care

This program is presented in conjunction with NCQA’s HEDIS Update and Best Practices seminars conducted in October 2011. Program moderator, Cindy Ottone, NCQA’s Director of HEDIS policy, presents the new Comprehensive Diabetes Care (CDC) HEDIS measures for 2012. Esther Emard, Chief Operating Officer, discusses the importance of finding ways to improve the care of diabetes and encourage providers to participate in NCQA's Diabetes Recognition Programs. Following Cindy’s presentation will be Suzy Harrington, NCQA Director of Customer Resources, who will address NCQA’s Physician Recognition Programs, Medicare’s 5 Star Program along with Accountable Care Organizations. Cindy Brenneman, Director of Healthcare Quality Programs & Blue Cross Blue Shield, NC (BCBS NC) and Lucy Vidal-Barretto, Provider Quality Department Manager, BCBS NC will both offer a perspective on what they are doing to help improve their scores with the CDC HEDIS measure. Frank Stelling, NCQA’s Assistant Director of Policy will conclude the program by leading an interactive facilitated discussion with the panel and the audience.

This optional, non-CME program was developed and coordinated by NCQA in collaboration with Managed Market Resources and is sponsored by sanofi.

Podcast 1 - Comprehensive Diabetes Care Measures for 2012

Podcast 2 - Catalyzing Change in Physician Practices

Podcast 3 - BCBS NC’s Multi-pronged Approach to HEDIS Improvements

Podcast 4 - Improving Quality of Care for Patient with Diabetes Interactive Discussion

Managing the Challenges of Asthma Management

On October 25, 2012, NCQA hosted a free Webinar, Managing the Challenges of Asthma Management where expert faculty walked participants through current and future HEDIS® measurements for asthma care, explored mechanisms to improve measure performance and described real-world efforts to ensure appropriate asthma care.

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Performance Improvement CME

National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Quality Improvement Connection is an educational resource and gateway to CME Performance Improvement (PI) activities. PI activities are structured, long term processes by which physicians can use performance measures to retrospectively assess care in their practice, apply these measures prospectively over a useful interval of time, and re-evaluate their performance.


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