A New Approach to Quality: Longitudinal and Reliable Quality Measurement

Value-based payment for care requires the consistent, objective calculation of care quality. A new approach to quality measurement approved by federal regulations allows for the use of clinical data routinely exchanged in care transition to fuel quality measurement. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has developed a program for testing such calculations in a robust manner providing audit capabilities to provider and payer organizations. Diameter Health offers technology which makes multi-source, longitudinal clinical data usable for quality measurement and population health.

During this webinar, you’ll learn:

Understand how interoperability standards can be used to provide data for clinical quality calculation
Learn how rigorous methodologies provide more consistent, reliable measure calculation
Identify opportunities to improve data quality that enabling quality measurement and population health analytics
Evaluate how longitudinal measure calculation substantially contributes to successful value-based care contracting

Anne Smith

Measure Validation Director
NCQA

Bio info: Anne Smith is the Director, Measure Validation the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). She is responsible...

Anne Smith is the Director, Measure Validation the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). She is responsible for the operation of the eMeasure Certification program. Previously, she was the Manager of Software Certification at NCQA. Prior to joining NCQA, Anne was Project Analyst at UnitedHealthCare where she worked to ensure data validity as a liaison between research sponsors and programming staff. Research projects included a Stroke PORT for the AHCPR, “Evaluation of Treatment Outcome for Children with Acute Otitis Media Using an HMO Claims Database” with the Center for Disease Control, and a clinical profiling pilot project. Eventually, Anne focused on managing the integration of data and production of HEDIS reports for UnitedHealthCare health plans. In addition, she participated in several NCQA committees, including the Technical Advisory Group and the Audit Methodology Panel. Anne holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from St. Olaf College and a Masters in Healthcare Services Administration with an emphasis on Health Information Sciences from the University of Phoenix.

John D’Amore

President and Chief Strategy Officer
Diameter Health

Bio info: John D’Amore, MS has over a decade of experience providing informatics and strategic insight to healthcare...

John D’Amore, MS has over a decade of experience providing informatics and strategic insight to healthcare organizations. He is Founder of Diameter Health and is dedicated to improving healthcare quality and efficiency through the intelligent use of data. Previously, John was Vice President at Eclipsys (now Allscripts) overseeing enterprise performance management solutions. Before then, John worked at the largest health system in Texas overseeing clinical informatics, decision support and business intelligence. During his tenure, Memorial Hermann won accolades for its financial performance as well as the National Quality Forum Award for exceptional clinical care. John has published on best practices in population health and presented at national forums on how information technology can improve medical outcomes. He is a technical advisor to the National Committee for Quality Assurance and a primary editor of HL7’s standard for care summaries, the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture. He holds a biochemistry degree from Harvard University and a graduate degree in clinical informatics from the University of Texas, School of Biomedical Informatics.

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Event Type : Upcoming

Date : Feb 09, 2018 12:00 PM CT

Cost : Complimentary

Credits : CPHIMS, CAHIMS

Speaker(s) : Anne Smith, John D’Amore

A New Approach to Quality: Longitudinal and Reliable Quality Measurement