Quality Talks 2017 Lynn Banaszak: Building Health Care’s Future
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Lynn Banaszak Founding Executive Director, Disruptive Health Technology Institute Lynn Banaszak connects professions that are too often strangers to one another: medicine and...
View ArticleQuality Talks 2017 Josh Rosenthal, PhD: 50 Shades of Variation
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Josh Rosenthal, PhD Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, RowdMap, Inc. The book and the Brad Pitt movie, “Moneyball” is a true story. It’s about underdogs who use data to...
View ArticleQuality Talks 2017 Shereef Elnahal: From Crowdsourcing to Sharing With the Crowd
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Shereef Elnahal, MD, MBA Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health, Chief of Quality, Safety, and Value, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Even if you were never in the...
View ArticleImportant Information for HEDIS® Users
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We have identified an issue with the (Asthma Controller Medications) list in the HEDIS® 2018 Medication List Directory (MLD) of NDC codes posted to the NCQA Web site on November...
View ArticleDepression: A Measure for Mothers
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We want to tell you about some work on depression that is brewing with our HEDIS® team and their funders, the California Health Care and Zoma foundations. The team put together...
View ArticleDatapalooza: Spring Prelude to Quality Talks
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - If you’ve paid attention, you know we are already preparing for Quality Talks this fall. Like always, we’ve searched and selected some of the brightest voices in the healthcare...
View ArticleSerious Illness Care: Measures Can Add Patient Insight
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Care for the seriously ill is an emerging field. Programs that offer care in the community to people living with serious illness are proliferating across the country. They range...
View ArticleHEDIS®: Update to Shared Risk Adjustment Table
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We found an error in the Shared Risk Adjustment table for HEDIS® 2018, HEDIS® for QRS, and VBP4P MY2017. We mistakenly updated the HCC-Rank and HCC-Comb tabs to include more...
View ArticleMeasuring Personal Health Goals: An Opportunity
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - As you know, we’re all about measurement at NCQA. We live by that old credo, if you don’t measure, you can’t improve. You must gauge progress, adjust to improve, and measure...
View ArticlePeggy O’Kane: “Most Influential” Nominee
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Our quality leader, our own president, Peggy O’Kane, is among the many people nominated for Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. In so many ways,...
View ArticleNew Resources Aim to Improve How We Discuss Medicine with Patients
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - It’s an exciting time for us when it comes to helping our friends develop quality improvement projects. This time, we’re helping improve how we track and discuss medicines with...
View ArticleNew Website: How It Helps You
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We have redesigned NCQA’s main website—ncqa.org—to give people who care about health care quality important capabilities. Simpler, Shorter Descriptions We rewrote descriptions of...
View ArticleQuality Talks 2017 Shereef Elnahal: From Crowdsourcing to Sharing With the Crowd
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Shereef Elnahal, MD, MBA Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health, Chief of Quality, Safety, and Value, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Even if you were never in the...
View ArticleImportant Information for HEDIS® Users
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We have identified an issue with the (Asthma Controller Medications) list in the HEDIS® 2018 Medication List Directory (MLD) of NDC codes posted to the NCQA Web site on November...
View ArticleDepression: A Measure for Mothers
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We want to tell you about some work on depression that is brewing with our HEDIS® team and their funders, the California Health Care and Zoma foundations. The team put together...
View ArticleDatapalooza: Spring Prelude to Quality Talks
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - If you’ve paid attention, you know we are already preparing for Quality Talks this fall. Like always, we’ve searched and selected some of the brightest voices in the healthcare...
View ArticleSerious Illness Care: Measures Can Add Patient Insight
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Care for the seriously ill is an emerging field. Programs that offer care in the community to people living with serious illness are proliferating across the country. They range...
View ArticleHEDIS®: Update to Shared Risk Adjustment Table
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We found an error in the Shared Risk Adjustment table for HEDIS® 2018, HEDIS® for QRS, and VBP4P MY2017. We mistakenly updated the HCC-Rank and HCC-Comb tabs to include more...
View ArticleMeasuring Personal Health Goals: An Opportunity
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - As you know, we’re all about measurement at NCQA. We live by that old credo, if you don’t measure, you can’t improve. You must gauge progress, adjust to improve, and measure...
View ArticlePeggy O’Kane: “Most Influential” Nominee
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Our quality leader, our own president, Peggy O’Kane, is among the many people nominated for Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. In so many ways,...
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