Quality Matters
Navigating the Future of Better Health Care
Explore the forefront of health care excellence with Quality Matters, the NCQA podcast that delves into digital transformation, health equity, and quality standards, offering actionable insights for industry leaders and innovators.
Another great listen: Quality Talks with Peggy O'Kane
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Vivek Garg, MD, MBA
President and CEO, NCQA
Dora Hughes, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Ari Robicsek, MD
Chief Medical Officer, NCQA
Shiv Rao, MD
Co-Founder and CEO, Abridge
Mark Sendak, MD, MPP
Founder and CEO, Vega Health
Daniel Yang, MD
Vice President of AI and Emerging Technologies, Kaiser Permanente
Burke Burnett
Director, Market Engagement & Growth, NCQA
Vik Wadhwani
Chief Product & Transformation Officer, NCQA
In Episode 2 of Data Quality Perspectives, host Burke Burnett sits down with NCQA Chief Product and Transformation Officer Vik Wadhwani to examine why modernizing quality measures is not enough on its own. The conversation explores how standards such as FHIR make data easier to exchange, but do not automatically make it trustworthy. Even a […]
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Burke Burnett
Director, Market Engagement & Growth, NCQA
Vik Wadhwani
Chief Product & Transformation Officer, NCQA
David Kendrick, MD, MPH, FACP
Chair, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine
In the premiere of Data Quality Perspectives, host Burke Burnett explores a fundamental question: Why doesn’t healthcare trust its own data? He is joined by NCQA Chief Product and Transformation Officer Vik Wadhwani and physician, engineer and clinical informaticist Dr. David Kendrick. Together, they examine how health care’s dependence on data has outgrown trust models […]
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Rani Snyder
President, The John A. Hartford Foundation
Eric Cahow
Vice President, Government Markets Performance, Independence Blue Cross
Dave White
Patient Advocate and Kidney Transplant Recipient
In this episode of Quality Matters, host Daniela Lawton explores how healthcare organizations can prepare for America’s rapidly growing older adult population through Age-Friendly Health Systems and the 4Ms framework: What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility. Joining the conversation are Rani Snyder, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation, and Eric Cahow, vice president of […]
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Greg Smith
Director of Operations, Evernorth Health Services
Sharon Meers
President and Co-Founder, Midi Health
Carroll Schreibman
Midi Health Patient
In this episode of Quality Matters, host Tsveta Polhemus sits down with Sharon Meers, co-founder and president of Midi Health, and Greg Smith, director of operations at Evernorth Health Services, to explore an often-overlooked challenge affecting patient access to care: credentialing. As healthcare becomes increasingly virtual and multi-state, traditional credentialing systems are struggling to keep […]
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