Data Quality 101: Fundamentals of Quality Measurement Data

About this Course

Data Quality 101: Fundamentals of Quality Measurement Data

What You Will Learn

HEDIS® is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for professionals who are new to NCQA Data Quality Solutions, digital quality measurement or clinical data quality concepts, as well as experienced health care quality professionals who want a shared foundation before moving into more advanced implementation topics.

• Health plan staff involved in HEDIS reporting, quality measurement, audit preparation, data operations or digital quality initiatives.
• Health Information Exchanges, data aggregators and technology vendors that support clinical data exchange, aggregation, mapping, validation or reporting.
• Health systems and clinical data partners that want to understand how data quality affects reporting, care gap identification and downstream quality improvement efforts.
• Business, product, operations, IT, analytics and quality improvement teams that need a common language for discussing clinical data quality and fit-for-use data.
• Leaders and decision makers who want a concise overview of why data quality matters and how it supports organizational readiness for digital quality transformation.

Faculty

Allison Lance

Allison Lance, Senior Program Manager in Customer Education brings over 20 years of experience across the health care ecosystem, from payers to health IT to care delivery. Her expertise ranges from market strategy and population health to quality improvement and interoperability. Prior to her role at NCQA, she worked in market intelligence at one of the world’s leading Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms and has experience from several health plans. During her time at NCQA, she built the Digital Hub and Community, which is a dynamic coalition of health quality measurement professionals, as well as leads development of the organization’s strategic plan for digital advancement. These resources help provide visibility to the roadmap for digitalizing health quality measures to be in alignment with CMS and Interoperability Standards.

Allison holds a master’s in health care administration (MHA) from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s in human resources management from Missouri State University.

Taylor Musser

Ben Hanley

Wendy Talbort

Continuing Education

This is a non AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM, ANA CNE, ACPE activity.
Certificate of Participation awarded

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

The 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.

For 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.

Disclosure 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.

Relevant financial relationships exist with the following companies/organizations:

Faculty:

Ben Hanley:
Allison Lance: None
Taylor Musser:
Wendy Talbot:

Additional Planning Committee Members:
Allison Lance: None

Event Type

1. Self Paced