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COVID-19 and Telehealth Expansion
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - With COVID-19 keeping everyone in doors, how can one reach their doctor about health-related services and concerns? Here’s how—telehealth. It’s the best way to get long-distance...
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Telemedicine Resources During COVID-19
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted normal operations in many communities. We also know that an organization’s staff, patients and members are its priority. It’s a good idea to use...
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COVID-19: A Primary Care Field Report
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We know primary care’s long history—heavy on demand, short on resources. Right? The COVID crisis will only sharpen those challenges. So when NCQA-Recognized practices reached out...
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Inside Health Care #0035: Delia Brand, Alabama Area Agencies on Aging
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - In this episode of “Inside Health Care,” Delia Brand, Director of Alabama Tombigbee Regional Commission Area Agency on Aging (AAA), and Matt Brock, NCQA Communications Director,...
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A Break for the New Routine: Countdown to Quality Talks 2020
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - So, you’re doing your social distancing duty. It’s a new world, and new routine. Perhaps too routine. You are coming down with cabin fever. Us too. And here’s our recommended...
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COVID-19: Working to Help the Most Vulnerable
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - No one escapes. It’s clear. Coronavirus has infected every American life. If you’ve managed to avoid the virus itself, all bets are, it’s still wreaking havoc in your economic...
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COVID-19: Adding Insult To Injury
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Anyone else experiencing COVID-19 news overload? There is literally a ton of information coming from everywhere, every single day. “This pandemic has impacted our economy and...
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Parents and Pediatricians: COVID-19 Fears & Needed Vaccines
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - If it’s not one thing it’s another. At one point, you would go to the doctor without a second thought. But now, you can’t help to wonder “What if I catch the coronavirus?”. Or...
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COVID-19, LTSS & Emergency Preparedness
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - If COVID-19 hasn’t taught us anything else, it’s taught us the importance of emergency preparedness. This is why emergency preparedness planning is a critical aspect of NCQA’s...
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Wow, What a Webinar! A Telehealth Webinar
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - In what promises to be one of NCQA’s best-attended online events ever, our webinar—COVID, Telehealth & Quality: What’s Now, What’s Next?—at 2pm ET on Thursday, May 14, has...
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Digital Health Innovator Brad Ryan Joins NCQA as Chief Product Officer
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - You could say, NCQA’s latest addition to its leadership team is a signal. It signals NCQA really is transforming-improving-applying its expertise in quality measurement to the...
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Mental Health During a Pandemic
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Are you okay? If not, we get it. This pandemic doesn’t feel good. We’re social distancing to stay safe. But for some, social distancing makes it easier to slip into a bad head...
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“COVID, Telehealth & Quality”: Wow, What a Webinar!
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA’s free webinar on May 14—COVID, Telehealth & Quality: What’s Now, What’s Next?—was packed with insight and resources for quality professionals who are curious what the...
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Telehealth: A Top Topic at Quality Talks
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Psychiatrist Peter Yellowlees’ presentation about telemedicine received some of the highest audience ratings at NCQA’s Quality Talks last month. It’s worth asking why. Part of the...
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Opioids: New Education Resources for Better Prescribing, Treatment
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - They’re at it again. NCQA and Boston University School of Medicine. They teamed up to provide two new opioid-related educational programs that address safer prescribing habits and...
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Telehealth is Here to Stay, But What About Payment?
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - COVID-19 brought a lot of adjustments. Telehealth is one of them. Now, there are plans in place to permanently expand reimbursement for telehealth services. The Trump...
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Inside Health Care #41: Peggy O’Kane on Telehealth Policy
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - In this episode of “Inside Health Care,” Peggy O’Kane, NCQA President, and Frank Micciche, NCQA VP of Public Policy and Communications, discuss how NCQA plans to help shape...
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Can’t Miss: Telehealth Taskforce Town Hall
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Telehealth Stakeholders, mark your calendar now. It’s a late chance to weigh in on the future of remote care–an opportunity to influence and inform policymakers in your own words...
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Reflecting on PRIDE Month: Health Care Disparities
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - People and organizations everywhere celebrated PRIDE month in June–a time to honor and support the LGBTQ community. PRIDE month was also an occasion to acknowledge the health care...
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Inside Health Care #43: Introducing Dr. Brad Ryan, NCQA Chief Product Officer
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - In this episode of Inside Health Care, Dr. Brad Ryan, NCQA’s new Chief Product Officer, and Matt Brock, NCQA Communications Director, discuss Brad’s experience and background in...
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