Telehealth and the Future of Quality: June 29, 2020

Discussion on telehealth’s rapid rise during COVID-19 and its implications for quality.

The Future of HEDIS Focuses on 6 core ideas:

• Allowable Adjustments: New flexibility lets users modify measures without changing their clinical intent.
• Licensing and Certification: Updated requirements ensure accuracy of measure results.
• Digital Measures: HEDIS specifications that download directly into users’ data systems bring new ease.
• Electronic Clinical Data Systems (ECDS): This new reporting method helps clinical data create insight for managing the health of individuals and groups.
• Schedule Change: A new schedule gives users more time by giving them complete measure specs sooner—11 months earlier than the traditional timeline.
• Telehealth: The access to care that telehealth has brought Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic is vital to quality now and after the pandemic.

Learn where HEDIS is headed in this webinar series:

• Episode 1 – The Basics: July 12, 2019
  Why are we doing this and why now?.
• Episode 2 – Answering Common Questions: September 27, 2019
  Get answers to common questions about digital measures, ECDS and more.
• Episode 3 – Let’s Get Technical: Digital Measures & ECDS: October 30, 2019
  The discussion gets more technical.
• Episode 4 – 2019 Year in Review: What’s New & What’s Next: December 10, 2019
  Recap of what’s new for HEDIS as well as a look ahead.
• Episode 5 – FHIR® in Our Future: HEDIS and New Data Standards: February 24, 2020
  Discussion of Why FHIR and what NCQA is considering.
• Episode 6 – Telehealth and the Future of Quality: June 29, 2020.
  Discussion on telehealth’s rapid rise during COVID-19 and its implications for quality.

Speaker

Margaret E. O'Kane, NCQA President
Brad Ryan, MD NCQA, Chief Product Officer
Michael S. Barr, MD NCQA Executive Vice President