Enabling a Digital Quality System
(NCQA Dec. 2020)
The Path Forward. The digital quality utility we envision aligns closely with the “secure, data-driven ecosystem to accelerate research and innovation” contemplated in the 2020–2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and would support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) goal of requiring all quality measures to be reported digitally by 2030. And it builds on growing interest among states and many private payers to move in this direction.
- Digital quality measures (dQMs) are key to unlocking the potential of a reimagined quality enterprise.
- A more digital quality system will enable rapid feedback and integrated content development across clinical guidelines and decision support, quality measures, and data specifications – each informing the other.
- NCQA is scoping an end-to-end pilot of the essential components necessary to advance digital quality measurement.
