About this Self-paced Training

HEDIS Essentials Update

This training presented by NCQA staff gives you an inside look at to the latest developments in HEDIS and designed to help participants stay ahead of the curve with the most current updates and innovations in HEDIS measures and data collection methods.

HEDIS® is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

What You Will Learn

After this course, you will be able to:

• Review a comprehensive overview of the new measures being introduced in the HEDIS pipeline. 
• Discuss the latest policy updates and changes affecting HEDIS including recent modifications, regulatory requirements, and best practices in quality reporting.
• Review the shift from Hybrid Data Collection to ECDS.                                                                                                                                                                     

Who Should Attend

• Healthcare Professionals 
• Healthcare decision makers
• Health Plans
• Health System
• Wellness Organizations

Faculty

Taylor Musser, MPH, CPHQ
Director, Measure Collection - Audit, Measure Validation

Taylor leads and advises teams on several products at NCQA, including the HEDIS Compliance Audit methodology, the Data Aggregator Validation program, and the HEDIS performance measurement publications. Ms. Musser brings over a decade of experience in health care quality, previously serving as an Associate Principal at Avalere Health, where she interpreted regulatory changes to quality reporting programs. She also held roles at MedStar Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she leveraged data for performance evaluation and public health surveillance.

Taylor is familiar with NCQA, having previously led HEDIS measure development and rejoined the organization to support the implementation of digital quality measures. She received an MPH in epidemiology from Emory University and holds a BS in microbiology from the University of Minnesota.

Fern McCree, Director, Digital Quality Informatics

Fern McCree is the Director for Quality Informatics at National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). She manages and coordinates research, development, and maintenance of quality measures. She leads strategic activities to support adoption and implementation of electronic clinical data measurement. Fern also coordinates the transformation of existing and newly developed quality measures into digital content in alignment of interoperability standards. McCree holds an MPH from The George Washington University and a BS in Public Health Administration from Temple University. 

Wendy Talbot, Vice President, Measure & Data Operations

Wendy Talbot is the Vice President of Measure and Data Operations at the National Committee For Quality Assurance (NCQA).  

She is responsible for a $20M portfolio of products that range from HEDIS content, implementation support, Measure CertificationÔ, HEDIS AuditÔ and validation programs, data collection, Quality Compass and Health Plan Ratings. 

Wendy has over 20 years of industry experience working with federal, state and local government, quality improvement, managed care and behavioral health organizations, and physician groups. Prior to working with NCQA, she worked as the Director of Performance Measure Validation and Audits for an External Quality Review Organization (EQRO) and one of NCQA’s HEDIS Licensed Organizations. While there, she was an NCQA Certified HEDIS Compliance Auditor and performed over 150 HEDIS, AMP and Performance Measure Validation audits. Before her time at the EQRO, she was an epidemiologist at the Arizona Department of Health Services.

Wendy completed her undergraduate education in Health Sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno. She also holds a Master of Public Health, Epidemiology degree from the University of Arizona. She has been a Certified HEDIS Compliance Auditor since 2007.

Continuing Education

This live course grants 2.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) points for PCMH Certified Content Experts.

This is a non AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM, ANA CNE, ACPE activity.

* Please note – You must attend the entire program to be eligible for total number of contact hours.

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) endorses the Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education which specify that sponsors of continuing medical education activities and presenters at and planners for these activities disclose any relevant financial relationships either party might have with commercial companies whose products or services are discussed in educational presentations.

For sponsors, relevant financial relationships include large research grants, institutional agreements for joint initiatives, substantial gifts, or other relationships that benefit the institution.  For presenters or planning committee members, relevant financial relationships include the receipt of research grants from a commercial company, consultancies, honoraria, travel, or other benefits, or having a self-managed equity interest in a company; or having an immediate family member or partner with such a relationship.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Relevant financial relationships exist with the following companies/organizations:

Faculty:

Taylor Musser: None
Fern McCree: None
Wendy Talbot: None

Additional Planning Committee Members:
Cathy Beckner: None