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HEDIS 2006 Volume 2: Technical Specifications. The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is a widely used set of performance measures in the managed care industry, developed and maintained by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States that works to improve health care quality through the administration of evidence-based standards, measures, programs, and accreditation. The National Committee for Quality Assurance operates on a formula of measure ...
In 2015 CMS identified 254 quality measures for which providers may choose to submit data. The measures map to U.S. National Quality Standard (NQS) health care quality domains: [4] Communication and Care Coordination; Community/Population Health; Effective Clinical Care; Efficiency and Cost Reduction; Patient Safety
Aside from the NCQA, other organizations involved in quality include the Joint Commission, URAC, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, with all these groups coordinating in the National Quality Forum. [43] A comparison of HEDIS metrics reported in 2006 and 2007 for Medicare ...
In an episode of the Opening Bid podcast, BlackRock's chief investment and portfolio strategist for the Americas, Gargi Chaudhuri, outlined her predictions for the stock market in 2025.
(The Center Square) – While many states expanded and adopted school choice programs in 2024, some advocates are excited about new education options for families in 2025 – made possible because ...
HCUP Logo. The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of healthcare databases and related software tools and products from the United States that is developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Over the first three years of the project (2003–2006), participating hospitals raised overall quality by an average of 15.8 percent [3] based on their delivery of 30 nationally standardized and widely accepted care measures [4] [5] to patients in these five clinical areas: acute myocardial infarction (AMI/heart attack) coronary artery bypass ...