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NCQA Public Sector Briefing: HEDIS 2020 Proposed Changes
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA’s Healthcare Effectiveness and Data Information Set (HEDIS®) is one of health care’s most widely used performance improvement tools. 190 million people are enrolled in plans...
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School-Based Medical Home: Making the Grade in Scranton
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Have you been inside a school recently? There’s a new calculus the curriculum. Many school systems—many communities—address far more than their students’ instructional needs. The...
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Alzheimer’s and Dementia Facts: A Stolen Post from NCQA’s Employee Newsletter
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - I stole this post. I admit it. I stole it from our own folks, though, so I’m not sure if it qualifies as really stolen. But this juice is worth the squeeze, if for no other reason...
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New York State PCMH: Continuing to Gain Steam
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Last spring, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), in collaboration with NCQA, launched the New York State Patient-Centered Medical Home (NYS PCMH) Recognition...
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Tracking Immunizations with New Measures to Make a Difference
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Measuring health care leads to improvement, and improving health care quality is what NCQA is all about. We assess health care quality with measures that are relevant,...
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Can’t Miss Seminar for Mental Health Awareness Month: Behavioral Health...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - May is Mental Health Awareness Month. And we have a seminar you can’t miss. I’m looking at you if your work as or with: Primary care, specialty and community center practice...
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LTSS Update: The Next Phase in LTSS Performance Measures
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - The phrase “You can’t improve what you can’t measure” makes sense. Consider that theme the driving force behind the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) effort to...
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New York State PCMH Raises the Bar: Program Adoption Sees BIG Increase!
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - At NCQA, we support investing in primary care as one of the best ways to improve health care. Fortunately, the folks with the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) agree....
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Where will the Digital Measures Roadmap lead?
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - If you could look into the future of health care, what would you see? Better quality? Less burdensome measurement and reporting for providers and health plans? More efficient,...
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What the Rise in “Big Data” Means for Employers
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - It is a known fact that to improve the quality of health care, you must measure it. We stand on the edge of a vast ocean of information readily available for the first time. So,...
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Direct Primary Care and Employers: Breaking it Down
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - There’s been a lot of buzz about direct primary care and how employers can use it. Unlike fee-for-service primary care, direct primary care offers patients improved access to...
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CMS Meaningful Measures-NCQA’s Digital Measures Roadmap: What’s the Connection?
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - “You can’t improve what you don’t measure”—that motto has always guided our mission. But what do we want to improve? What’s a priority? And after we decide that, we need to know:...
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NCQA Certification Increases the Value of Self-Reported Data
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Guest Blog Dr. Brittany U. Carter is the Director of Health and Research at Wellsource, an NCQA-certified pioneer in health risk assessments and self-management tools. Dr. Carter...
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Nominate Your Champion! 2019 CCE Quality Awards at PCMH Congress
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - PCMH Congress is right around the corner. It’s the perfect time to recognize the folks who shepherd so many others through a patient-centered transformation. I am, of course,...
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Future HEDIS: A Can’t-Miss Vision for What’s Ahead
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - I’m sure the at one time or another in your professional life, knowing the future would have come in handy. Knowing the future would make decisions easier, right? Should you...
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Measure Updates: Safe and Judicious Use of Antipsychotics in Children and...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Safe and Judicious. Those are the watch words in that title. Yes, doctors sometimes prescribe antipsychotic medicines for kids. But because kids are so vulnerable, we want to make...
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Multicultural Health Care and Mental Health: Considerations for Clinicians
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - What comes to mind when you hear National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month? National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month takes place every July. Agencies and...
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Let’s Talk Business: PCMH Recognition
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Research shows that NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Recognition supports improved quality, reduced costs and a better patient experience. That sounds good, but what...
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In Case You Missed It: Future of HEDIS Webinar
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - If you’re a regular reader of our newsletter or follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn, you’ve heard about the future of HEDIS. It is changing. If not, here’s a brief recap from our...
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Digital Quality Summit 2019: Highlights
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Did you miss the 2019 Digital Quality Summit? For three days, in Boston, Massachusetts, many people from all walks of health care and technology, filled conference rooms to learn...
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