State Spotlight: NC Medicaid’s Journey in Leveraging NC HealthConnex for Quality and Population Health

North Carolina Medicaid offers an in-depth look at its partnership with NC HealthConnex, the state’s designated health information exchange, to transform quality measurement, enhance clinical data collection and improve population health management. With over 10,000 connected facilities and 6,000 more in the onboarding process, NC HealthConnex serves as a central data aggregator that promotes interoperability and supports value-based care.

Learn how NC Medicaid and NC HIEA are using NCQA Data Aggregator Validation to streamline administrative processes and ensure data accuracy, while launching provider workgroups to improve key metrics for conditions like hypertension, diabetes and depression. Gain actionable insights to help payers and health systems better leverage health information exchanges for improved outcomes.

 Key Learning Objectives:

• Best practices for advancing interoperability and quality measurement.
• How states can use health information exchanges, like NC HealthConnex, to aggregate and analyze health care data.

Speakers: Sam Thompson (NC HIEA), Larry Mull (NC Medicaid), Jess Kuhn (NC HIEA), Tom Curtis (NCQA)