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SUMMARY:HEDIS Essentials Update
DESCRIPTION:About this Webinar Training\nHEDIS Essentials Update\nThis 
 training presented by NCQA staff gives you an inside look at 
 to the latest developments in HEDIS and designed to help 
 participants stay ahead of the curve with the most current 
 updates and innovations in HEDIS measures and data 
 collection methods.\n\nHEDIS® is a registered trademark of 
 the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).\n\nWhat 
 You Will Learn\nAfter this course\, you will be able 
 to:\n\n• Review a comprehensive overview of the new 
 measures being introduced in the HEDIS pipeline. \n• 
 Discuss the latest policy updates and changes affecting 
 HEDIS including recent modifications\, regulatory 
 requirements\, and best practices in quality reporting. \n• 
 Review the shift from Hybrid Data Collection to ECDS.    
                                         
                                         
                                         
                                         
  \n\nWho Should Attend\n\nHealthcare 
 Professionals \nHealthcare decision makers\nHealth 
 Plans\nHealth System\nWellness 
 Organizations\n\nFaculty\n \n\n\n\nTaylor Musser\, MPH\, 
 CPHQ\nDirector\, Measure Collection - Audit\, Measure 
 Validation\n\nTaylor leads and advises teams on several 
 products at NCQA\, including the HEDIS Compliance Audit 
 methodology\, the Data Aggregator Validation program\, and the 
 HEDIS performance measurement publications. Ms. Musser 
 brings over a decade of experience in health care quality\, 
 previously serving as an Associate Principal at Avalere 
 Health\, where she interpreted regulatory changes to quality 
 reporting programs. She also held roles at MedStar Health 
 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, where 
 she leveraged data for performance evaluation and public 
 health surveillance. \n\nTaylor is familiar with NCQA\, 
 having previously led HEDIS measure development and rejoined 
 the organization to support the implementation of digital 
 quality measures. She received an MPH in epidemiology from 
 Emory University and holds a BS in microbiology from the 
 University of Minnesota.\n\n\n\nFern McCree\, Director\, 
 Digital Quality Informatics\n\nFern McCree is the Director 
 for Quality Informatics at National Committee for Quality 
 Assurance (NCQA). She manages and coordinates research\, 
 development\, and maintenance of quality measures. She leads 
 strategic activities to support adoption and implementation 
 of electronic clinical data measurement. Fern also 
 coordinates the transformation of existing and newly 
 developed quality measures into digital content in alignment 
 of interoperability standards. McCree holds an MPH from The 
 George Washington University and a BS in Public Health 
 Administration from Temple University. \n\n \n\n\n\nWendy 
 Talbot\, Vice President\, Measure & Data Operations\n\nWendy 
 Talbot is the Vice President of Measure and Data Operations 
 at the National Committee For Quality Assurance 
 (NCQA).  \n\nShe is responsible for a $20M portfolio of 
 products that range from HEDIS content\, implementation 
 support\, Measure CertificationÔ\, HEDIS AuditÔ and 
 validation programs\, data collection\, Quality Compass and 
 Health Plan Ratings. \n\nWendy has over 20 years of 
 industry experience working with federal\, state and local 
 government\, quality improvement\, managed care and behavioral 
 health organizations\, and physician groups. Prior to working 
 with NCQA\, she worked as the Director of Performance Measure 
 Validation and Audits for an External Quality Review 
 Organization (EQRO) and one of NCQA’s HEDIS Licensed 
 Organizations. While there\, she was an NCQA Certified HEDIS 
 Compliance Auditor and performed over 150 HEDIS\, AMP and 
 Performance Measure Validation audits. Before her time at 
 the EQRO\, she was an epidemiologist at the Arizona 
 Department of Health Services.\n\nWendy completed her 
 undergraduate education in Health Sciences at the University 
 of Nevada\, Reno. She also holds a Master of Public Health\, 
 Epidemiology degree from the University of Arizona. She has 
 been a Certified HEDIS Compliance Auditor since 
 2007.\n\nContinuing Education\nThis live course grants 2.0 
 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) points for PCMH Certified 
 Content Experts.\n\nThis is a non AMA PRA Category 1 
 CreditTM\, ANA CNE\, ACPE activity.\n\n* Please note – You 
 must attend the entire program to be eligible for total 
 number of contact hours.\n\nDisclosure of Relevant Financial 
 Relationships\nThe 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.\n\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.\n\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.\n\nRelevant financial relationships exist with 
 the following companies/organizations:\n\nFaculty:\n\nTaylor 
 Musser: None\nFern McCree: None\nWendy Talbot: 
 None\n\n\n\nAdditional Planning Committee Members:\nCathy 
 Beckner: None\n\n \n
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