{"id":47155,"date":"2025-11-12T16:53:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=47155"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:53:42","slug":"how-to-know-if-your-virtual-care-is-high-quality","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/www.ncqa.org\/podcast\/how-to-know-if-your-virtual-care-is-high-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Know if Your Virtual Care is High Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This episode of <i>Quality Matters<\/i> features Misty Milby, VP of Clinical Business Development at Everlywell, and Claire Mendelson, Product Manager at NCQA.<\/p>\n<p>To illuminate what makes virtual care safe, effective and sustainable, Misty and Claire unpack NCQA\u2019s new Virtual Care Accreditation program. They explore five essential standards that define excellence in virtual primary and urgent care\u2014and share insights from Everlywell\u2019s experience piloting the standards. Misty and Claire make a compelling case for treating virtual care as a permanent, integrated part of the health care continuum.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to learn about:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 20px;\">\n<li><b>Quality and Patient Safety in Virtual Care: <\/b>Virtual care must meet the same clinical and ethical standards as in-person care. Misty and Claire explain how high standards ensure rigorous quality improvement and patient safety across remote modalities.<\/li>\n<li><b>Fixing Fragmentation Through Care Coordination: <\/b>Virtual care can either bridge or widen gaps in the system. Effective care helps prevent \u201creferral loops\u201d and ensure seamless handoffs between virtual care and in-person providers.<\/li>\n<li><b>Equity Beyond Access:<\/b> Equitable virtual care means more than logging in; it\u2019s about language, culture and more. Misty shares ideas on how to tailor care to patients\u2019 preferences, regardless of zip code or income.<\/li>\n<li><b>Clinician Experience Matters: <\/b>Virtual care can reduce burnout, but only if it\u2019s intuitive and sustainable. Hear how effective standards for virtual care support clinicians with better workflows, realistic panel sizes and time to recharge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 2rem; border-left: solid 4px gold; max-width: 600px; margin-top: 2rem; margin-bottom: 2rem;\">As a clinician, I can tell you that handoff is everything. A great virtual encounter means nothing if the patient falls through the cracks afterwards or gets on this continuous referral highway, and is never able to get off of it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So NCQA really ensured for us that virtual providers have defined workflows for referrals. We had to make sure that this was really buttoned up, as we didn&#8217;t want anybody to get stuck on that referral loop or fall through the cracks. 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