Resource Directory

Articles
How Digital Quality Can Improve the Member Experience

There are many benefits to transitioning to digital quality measurement—such as accessing data more readily, with less friction, at lower cost—but the most important is improved care delivery. Learn how patients and members benefit from the transition.

User Guides
Preparing Data for Digital Measurement

Introduction into digital measures data preparation and readiness for non-technical users.

Podcasts
When Exchanging (and Trusting) Data Grows Up

Health Information Exchanges and Qualified Health Information Networks are vital to building better health care, but these concepts are new to many people. Learn about data exchange from one of the field’s leaders, Laura McCrary, President and CEO of KONZA National Network.

Podcasts
The Digital Transformation-Data Quality Puzzle With NCQA’s Brad Ryan

Brad Ryan, MD, Chief Growth Officer at NCQA, joined Jeff Byers of Health Affairs to discuss the evolving state of EHRs, who owns the data, whether providers are excited about data standards, and what opportunities could be out there as health care embraces more digital efforts and arrangements.

Podcasts
The New Rules of Data Sharing

Federal officials recently announced new rules for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). That’s big news for data interoperability and HEDIS. Two NCQA experts explain what it all means.

User Guides
How Digital Measures Execute with Clinical Quality Language

Learn more about CQL engines, how they work and why they are important for digital quality.

Articles
Updated TEFCA SOPs for Health Care Operations and NCQA

NCQA’s HEDIS® reporting was included as a Level 2 exchange purpose in two standard operating procedures under TEFCA. Find out what it means.

Articles
Top Three Challenges in the Transition to Digital Quality

We asked Allison Lance, NCQA’s Director, Digital Quality Community, to explain some of the challenges health care organizations face during the transition to digital quality.

Podcasts
The Move to Digital Quality Measurement

Digital quality measurement promises better measures with less burden. But how do we get to that better future? Rebecca Jacobson, a physician-informaticist and CEO of Astrata, shares what she has learned about incentives, the real vs. expected pace of change, plus the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats she sees in many firms’ digital strategies.

User Guides
Intro to CQL

Curious about Clinical Quality Language (CQL) but feeling more puzzled than informed? You’re in the right spot! Let’s kick off by demystifying the essentials.