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Advancing Best Practices for Goal Attainment Scaling
There is broad agreement that a patient’s priorities and goals should guide their health care. Goal-aligned care enables the clinician to learn more about the outcomes valued by the patient, their preferences, with respect to their condition, and possible treatments and trade-offs. Goal setting has become a key component for management of adults with complex […]
View NowImproving Osteoporosis Care
Osteoporosis is a metabolic bone disease that is most common in postmenopausal women but can occur in women of any age, and in men. Although individuals may not know they have osteoporosis until they break a bone, recognition of the risk factors for osteoporosis—including sex, race, age, family history, other medical conditions and use of […]
View NowThe Future of Telehealth Roundtable
The advent of COVID-19 forced health professionals to think innovatively to facilitate timely care while maintaining compliance with shelter-in-place ordinances. Health systems scrambled to implement and scale virtual modalities of care delivery, including telehealth, and experienced both successes and unique challenges. Regulatory and legislative actions increased access to telehealth through expanded provider eligibility, payment parity, […]
View NowA Rallying Cry: Improving Coordinated Care for People With Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
Up to 25% of Americans have a chronic disease that has serious implications for them and for clinicians, public health authorities and payers. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) increases the risk of advanced liver disease and is a leading cause of liver transplants in the United States. As many as 6.5% of Americans—including 30%–40% of […]
View NowRethinking Diabetes Care in the Digital Age
Adults affected by diabetes are at higher risk of developing heart failure—in fact, these conditions frequently occur simultaneously. Patients with type 2 diabetes and heart failure (T2DM+HF) receive care in a complex environment with limited resources and efforts aimed at their complicated care needs.
View NowKeys to Success in Meeting the Demand
for Value in Health CareWhat essential capabilities do population health management providers need to meet the demand for value-based care? Development of a comprehensive population health management strategy is critical to an organization’s ability to drive outcome improvements and to succeed under value-based payment models. Over the last decade, federal, state and private sector activities have driven population health […]
View NowOptimizing Care for Patients With
Type 2 Diabetes and Heart FailureAdults affected by diabetes are at higher risk of developing heart failure—in fact, these conditions frequently occur simultaneously. Patients with type 2 diabetes and heart failure (T2DM+HF) receive care in a complex environment with limited resources and efforts aimed at their complicated care needs.
View NowSocial Determinants of Health Resource Guide
The NCQA Social Determinants of Health Resource Guide is a reference for health plans, clinically integrated networks, and clinicians to design and implement strategies that address social determinants of health (SDOH) for commercially insured populations. The SDOH Resource Guide centers around SDOH strategy and is organized into six sections: 1. Assessment Design. 2. SDOH Data. […]
View NowPopulation Health Management Roadmap for Integrated Delivery Networks
A practical guide for helping Integrated Delivery Networks and other provider organizations understand population health management in achieving value-based care. Accountable Care Organizations and Integrated Delivery Networks are working to deliver value-based care through population health management, spearheading the movement away from fee-for-service. The transition for the industry towards value-based care is complex and challenging. […]
View NowElectronic Quality Reporting for States:
A Roadmap for Moving ForwardThis white paper builds on discussions from states, health plans, providers, tech firms and others to explore how the health care system can align electronic reporting initiatives across all programs and settings to support state electronic clinical quality measure reporting
View NowComparison of eCQM Certification Programs
Diameter Health compared the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) Project Cypress tool for certifying software that performs electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) calculation with NCQA’s ONC-approved eCQM certification program and found that NCQA’s program is much more robust. That is because NCQA’s program, unlike Project Cypress that ONC and all other […]
View NowRheumatoid Arthritis: Transforming Care Delivery to a Value-Based Model
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, progressive, inflammatory condition that imposes a high burden on the patient and on the health care system. In 2018, NCQA hosted a working group at the 2018 Digital Quality Summit. During a subsequent NCQA roundtable, key opinion leaders in RA treatment, patient advocacy and digital measures discussed issues in outcome […]
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