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Cardiac Rehabilitation: A New HEDIS Measure for Heart Health
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - “Cardiac rehabilitation doesn’t change your past, but it can help you improve your heart’s future.” —The American Heart Association Background Heart disease is the leading cause...
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Inside Health Care #64: Keirsha Thompson, LaToshia Rouse, & Bridging Health...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - In September 2021, Health Affairs, the esteemed journal of health policy, published a significant paper in their online blog, titled “A New Effort To Address Racial And Ethnic...
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Antibiotics for Respiratory Conditions: Newly Revised Measure
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Did you know? Nearly 269 million antibiotic prescriptions are dispensed annually in the United States. Nearly 30 percent of antibiotics prescribed in outpatient settings are...
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Strategies to Improve Glucose Control with Mealtime Insulin
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - The Situation Clinicians who treat individuals with types 1 and 2 diabetes (T1D, T2D) need expert guidance to evaluate, interpret the clinical significance, and apply emerging...
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Equity Aid: Feds Can Improve Race, Ethnicity Data Collection
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - New analysis recommends practical steps the federal government can take to improve how it collects and uses data to advance health equity. Federal Action Is Needed to Improve Race...
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Future of HEDIS Webinar: Pandemic Results, Health Equity and Digital,...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - The Future of HEDIS: Episode 10 The September 30 installment of NCQA’s best-attended webinar series, The Future of HEDIS, illuminated four new areas of knowledge for the growing...
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Inside Health Care #65: Dr. Rachel Harrington on Health Equity and “What’s...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Why do the issues of Health Equity persist? If agencies and NGOs have spent years identifying gaps in care for minority groups in the U.S., what needs to be done to solve these...
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NCQA Video: 2020 Innovation Award Winners Present
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA’s Innovation Awards recognize Accredited health plans and Recognized practices for implementing leading-edge strategies that improve both the quality and value of health...
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Inside Health Care #66: Dr. Dan Wilson & Dr. Mary Barton on NCQA’s Kidney...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - This week’s episode of NCQA’s Inside Health Care podcast observes National Diabetes Month. We feature a discussion with two experts in diabetes care who discuss the links between...
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Medicaid Innovation in North Carolina: A Fireside Discussion
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - A systems thinker. That’s how NCQA’s president Margaret (Peggy) O’Kane describes North Carolina’s Secretary for Health and Human Services, Dr. Mandy Cohen. Secretary Mandy Cohen...
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NCQA Launches Equity Accountability to Eliminate Stubborn Health Disparities
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - NCQA has always championed measurement and accountability as the keys to improving health care. Now, we’re turning to those tried and true principles to tackle one of healthcare’s...
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Inside Health Care #67: Dr. Renee Towne & Dr. Niam Yaraghi on What to Do with...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Everybody knows how annoying it can be when a doctor sits you down and asks you a ton of irrelevant questions, sometimes with their nose in their laptop, before even examining...
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Health Equity Accreditation Plus: Health Systems Join Health Plans For Pilot...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We have big news to tell you about. It’s a significant development in our equity journey. And a big win for cooperation and collaboration. Today, NCQA launches a pilot program to...
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Inside Health Care #68: Dr. Lisa Cooper & Bridging Equity Gaps with Better...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - This episode of “Inside Health Care” features Dr. Lisa A. Cooper, a pioneer in closing the gaps that still persist in health care equity. Dr. Lisa A. Cooper is an internist, a...
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Measuring Quality of Health Systems, Genomic Medicine
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - A new NCQA measure development project unifies three futuristic topics: Genomic-based cancer care. Using electronic clinical data to study quality. Assessing the quality of health...
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New White Paper Recommends Diabetes Care Overhaul
We just released a white paper that could prove revolutionary in setting a new course for diabetes care. The paper titled Digital Quality Summit White Paper: Rethinking Diabetes Care in the Digital...
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NCQA Resets Diabetes Programs, Strengthens Accountability
Following the recommendations of a team of experts at the Digital Quality Summit, NCQA has set the course for an overhaul of its Diabetes Recognition Program. We’ve also begun work to develop new...
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Coming to Quality Talks: New Ideas on Health Equity
Quality Talks is only a few weeks away. It’s shaping up once again to be the quality calendar’s most energizing day all year. We’ve curated a lineup of 10 impressive, thoughtful speakers. They’ve...
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Improving Quality Measurement for Colorectal Cancer Screening
Colorectal cancer represents 8 percent of all new cancer cases and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. [1] While routine screening can find cancer early when treatment...
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NCQA’s comment on the pivotal ONC USCDI+ Behavioral Health draft dataset was supportive and offered actionable feedback to improve: Data element completeness and specificity. Ease of data exchange to...
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