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Blog Post/PodcastWhat CMS’s New Interoperability Rules Mean for Quality

Published 01.25.2024
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We’ve announced that we heartily agree with new rules CMS released last week to advance nationwide data interoperability. The rules: Mandate specific APIs for health…

Blog Post/PodcastHighlights of 2023 Illuminate 2024 Priorities

Published 12.14.2023
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Ten popular blog posts from 2023 reveal what’s on our minds and what’s coming in 2024. What Our President Told 1,500 Summit Guests NCQA President…

Blog Post/PodcastPerson-Centered Care and the Move to Digital Measurement

Published 09.06.2022
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Driving innovation to promote person-centered care was one topic in a recent CMS request for information about Medicare Advantage.    NCQA’s response emphasized data exchange…

Blog Post/PodcastAs Seen in HBR: How to Use Digital Health Data to Improve Outcomes

Published 09.16.2022
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NCQA’s Peggy O’Kane, Brad Ryan, Eric Schneider and board member John Glaser co-authored an illuminating essay for Harvard Business Review, How to Use Digital Health…

Blog Post/PodcastWhy “Sync for Social Needs”

Published 09.27.2022
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Unmet social needs have a profound impact on the health of Americans and on our healthcare system. To improve health, we must address those needs.…

Blog Post/PodcastFired Up for The Universal Foundation

Published 02.09.2023
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All of us at NCQA are energized by the recent New England Journal of Medicine Perspective authored by six CMS leaders, “Aligning Quality Measures across…

Blog Post/PodcastDemocratizing Digital Quality Measurement

Published 04.05.2023
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An early adopters program for NCQA’s newest offering, Digital Content Services, expands digital quality measurement to fit the workflows of a wide range of organizations—beyond…

Blog Post/PodcastWhy You Shouldn’t Fear FHIR

Published 04.19.2023
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In a recent webinar about the transformation of quality measurement, NCQA Chief Technology Officer Ed Yurcisin (introduced here and interviewed here) covered a range of…

Blog Post/PodcastWhat Wider Access to NCQA Digital Content Means

Published 05.18.2023
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Last week, we announced that NCQA is publishing requirements and open-source software for interpreting and executing clinical quality language (CQL) so any organization or software…

Blog Post/PodcastBuilding Next-Generation Digital Quality Measures

Published 06.07.2023
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You don’t have to be an informaticist to learn from Anne Smith and Michael Ryan’s presentation at the AMIA 2023 Clinical Informatics Conference, Building Next…

Blog Post/PodcastSummer School: 3 Recent Webinars Cover Quality Priorities

Published 07.19.2023
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Slides and recordings of three NCQA webinars the past three weeks form a concise quality primer for professionals new to the field, and a handy update…

Blog Post/PodcastNow We Can Validate Your FHIR Data

Published 08.16.2023
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NCQA now validates FHIR output files as part of our Data Aggregator Validation program. We announced in early August we’ve expanded our Data Aggregator service to…