{"id":37773,"date":"2024-06-04T21:35:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T01:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/?page_id=37773"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:37:30","slug":"why-digital-quality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/digital-quality-transition\/why-digital-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Digital Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than 30 years, the National Committee for Quality Assurance has led the health care quality movement. As the nation\u2019s leading measure developer, NCQA is the steward of the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS\u00ae), one of health care\u2019s most widely used performance improvement tools.<\/p>\n

But traditional quality measurement has limitations. HEDIS is incredibly valuable for quality improvement and benchmarking at the health plan level. In the digital age, with data more readily available, there\u2019s the opportunity to make measurement more accessible and actionable closer to the point of care in a way that can help better manage populations, support more equitable care and drive outcomes.<\/p>\n

What is Digital Quality?<\/h2>\n

Digital quality means moving to standards-based technology that makes quality operations simpler and more efficient. More importantly, it is about more relevant measures and the increased use of clinical data to enable better measurement, better care and new payment models.<\/p>\n

Digital quality uses standardized, digital data from one or more sources of health information that is captured and exchanged via interoperable systems and applies quality measure specifications that are standards-based. Digital quality measurement leverages code packages and is computed in an integrated environment without additional effort. The solution enables:<\/p>\n