Directory: Data Aggregator Validation

NCQA’s Data Aggregator Validation Program evaluates clinical data streams to help ensure that health plans, providers, government organizations and others can trust the accuracy of aggregated clinical data. This directory lists entities who have validated clinical data streams or are in the process of validating data streams with NCQA.

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What does each field mean?

Organization:

This is the organization that either validated a data stream or earned a certification status.

Evaluation Product:

Validated Data Stream = The organization listed is the accountable entity for a data stream that was validated through the Data Aggregator Validation program. To learn what data streams are validated, contact the accountable organization.

Certified Data Partner = The organization listed earned certification in one or more standards areas. A certified data partner has shown they demonstrate capabilities to support data stream validation and findings from the certification may be portable, saving partners time in validating data streams. Findings for certified data partners are only applicable when supporting a responsible party to validate a data streams. Their findings to do not stand alone for use elsewhere.

Status:

An organization will have one of the following statuses:

• Seeking: Currently in the process of validating a data stream with NCQA.
• Validated: Has gone through the validation process and a data stream earned validation.
• Certified: Has gone through the process as a certified data partner and the organization earned certification as a certified data partner.

Cohort Start Date:

The date the participant began the DAV validation review.

Validation Expires:

The date one year from the last date of validation/certification. Organizations must get revalidated/recertified prior to this date to maintain their status. If an organization is in process/seeking then this field will be TBD until it completes the validation process.