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Podcasts
The Digital Transformation-Data Quality Puzzle With NCQA’s Brad Ryan

Brad Ryan, MD, Chief Growth Officer at NCQA, joined Jeff Byers of Health Affairs to discuss the evolving state of EHRs, who owns the data, whether providers are excited about data standards, and what opportunities could be out there as health care embraces more digital efforts and arrangements.

Podcasts
The New Rules of Data Sharing

Federal officials recently announced new rules for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). That’s big news for data interoperability and HEDIS. Two NCQA experts explain what it all means.

User Guides
How Digital Measures Execute with Clinical Quality Language

Learn more about CQL engines, how they work and why they are important for digital quality.

Articles
Updated TEFCA SOPs for Health Care Operations and NCQA

NCQA’s HEDIS® reporting was included as a Level 2 exchange purpose in two standard operating procedures under TEFCA. Find out what it means.

Articles
Top Three Challenges in the Transition to Digital Quality

We asked Allison Lance, NCQA’s Director, Digital Quality Community, to explain some of the challenges health care organizations face during the transition to digital quality.

Podcasts
The Move to Digital Quality Measurement

Digital quality measurement promises better measures with less burden. But how do we get to that better future? Rebecca Jacobson, a physician-informaticist and CEO of Astrata, shares what she has learned about incentives, the real vs. expected pace of change, plus the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats she sees in many firms’ digital strategies.

User Guides
Intro to CQL

Curious about Clinical Quality Language (CQL) but feeling more puzzled than informed? You’re in the right spot! Let’s kick off by demystifying the essentials.

Position Statements
Joint Statement on Digital Quality Measurement Interoperability

FAQs

What is quality measurement?

Quality measurement is the application of standardized quality measures to evaluate the health outcomes and experiences of care provided to individuals and populations, as well as the structures and processes used by organizations and clinicians to deliver care. The results of quality measurement guide quality improvement and can be used in accountability and value-based purchasing programs.

What does quality measurement cost today?

Quality measurement and reporting requires significant staff effort and expense because of the manual processes involved in the collection, exchange, management and analysis of health care data. A report found that clinicians bear a significant proportion of the cost of quality measurement reporting—an estimated $15.4 billion—including for chart abstraction, data validation and measure reporting. Other industries have leveraged modern information technology to reduce these costs of data management.