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SUMMARY:Evolving HEDIS for Equity: Updates and Future Directions
DESCRIPTION:About this Webinar Training\n\nEvolving HEDIS for Equity: 
 Updates and Future DirectionsHealth care quality cannot 
 exist without equity. NCQA is committed to building\, 
 measuring and promoting equity through all our programs. 
 Empowering HEDIS to speak directly to these goals is a 
 central part of this effort. Join NCQA staff for an overview 
 of our equity measurement strategy and learn more about how 
 we are evolving HEDIS to build toward better transparency 
 and action. This course will include a review of new race 
 and ethnicity stratifications\, next steps for a more 
 inclusive HEDIS and a preview of a new measure concept for 
 social needs screening.\nClick here to access the Quality 
 Innovation Series registration page to register or review 
 the full course content.\nResource: NCQA's Health Equity 
 webpage.\nWhat You Will Learn\n\nDescribe NCQA's strategy 
 for expanding R/E Stratification.Identify three data 
 standards organizations or resources for health equity 
 data.Summarize the development process for a new measure to 
 assess screening and intervention for unmet social 
 needs.Explain the differences between social determinants of 
 health\, social risk and social needs.Faculty\n\nRachel 
 Harrington\, PhD\nRachel Harrington is a Research Scientist 
 in the Performance Measurement department at NCQA. She leads 
 measure development and testing in the area of health care 
 resource utilization and serves as the scientific and 
 project lead on multiple federally funded NCQA measurement 
 projects\, including HEDIS risk-adjusted utilization 
 measures\, appropriate medication use in the elderly and 
 strategies for evolving approaches to social determinants of 
 health in quality measurement.\nBefore joining NCQA\, Dr. 
 Harrington led North American health economics and outcomes 
 research for anti-infective products at Astellas Pharma. She 
 holds a PhD in Pharmacy Systems\, Outcomes and Policy from 
 the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy 
 and a BA from Marquette University.\nDeidre Washington\, 
 PhD\nDeidre Washington is a Research Scientist in the 
 Performance Measurement department at NCQA. She is 
 currently co-leading efforts to bring health equity\, social 
 determinants of health and social needs into HEDIS. Her 
 current portfolio also includes work on measures related 
 to respiratory conditions\, such as asthma and COPD\, 
 antibiotic overuse measures\, and pediatric dental 
 measures.   Prior to joining NCQA in 2019\, she served for 
 three years as research project director at the Asthma and 
 Allergy Foundation of America. She earned her doctoral 
 degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of 
 North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  \nContinuing 
 Education\n\nIn support of improving patient care\, the 
 National Committee for Quality Assurance is jointly 
 accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing 
 Medical Education (ACCME)\, the Accreditation Council for 
 Pharmacy Education (ACPE)\, the American Nurses Credentialing 
 Center (ANCC)\, the American Academy of Physician Assistants 
 (AAPA)\, the American Psychological Association (APA)\, and 
 the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to 
 provide Interprofessional Continuing Education for the 
 healthcare team. \nThis educational activity is approved 
 for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. \nThis 
 educational activity is approved for 1.0 nursing contact 
 hours.*\nThis live course grants 1.0 Continuing Education 
 Unit (CEU) points for PCMH Certified Content 
 Experts.  \n* Please note – You must attend the entire 
 program to be eligible for total number of contact 
 hours.\nDisclosure of Relevant Financial RelationshipsThe 
 National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) endorses the 
 Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing 
 Medical Education which specify that sponsors of continuing 
 medical education activities and presenters at and planners 
 for these activities disclose any relevant financial 
 relationships either party might have with commercial 
 companies whose products or services are discussed in 
 educational presentations.\nFor sponsors\, relevant financial 
 relationships include large research grants\, institutional 
 agreements for joint initiatives\, substantial gifts\, or 
 other relationships that benefit the institution.  For 
 presenters or planning committee members\, relevant financial 
 relationships include the receipt of research grants from a 
 commercial company\, consultancies\, honoraria\, travel\, or 
 other benefits\, or having a self-managed equity interest in 
 a company\; or having an immediate family member or partner 
 with such a relationship.\nDisclosure of a relationship is 
 not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation 
 but is made to provide participants with information that 
 might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a 
 presentation.\nRelevant financial relationships exist with 
 the following companies/organizations:\nFaculty:\nRachel 
 Harrington: None\nDeidre Washington: None\nAdditional 
 Planning Committee Members:\nTammy Donnelly: None\nJoseph 
 Fojtik: None\nLincoln Haynes: None\nThis program was 
 developed in part by NCQA staff.\nThis program received no 
 commercial support.\n
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