“Companies that create software products that can quickly and accurately calculate and report HEDIS scores provide a critical service to their health plan clients,” says Mary Braman, NCQA director of licensure and certification. “Good software products allow plans to spend less time preparing and reporting data and more time doing what they do best—improving the care they deliver to their members. We commend the vendors committed to this program.”
Certification is voluntary, and vendors which achieve certification are exempt from manual source code review by NCQA auditors during the HEDIS Compliance Audit. Results of the testing will be announced next month.
The testing used in the software certification reviews will include 10 new HEDIS measures, including:
- Inappropriate antibiotic treatment for adults with acute bronchitis
- Use of spirometry testing in the assessment and diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapy in rheumatoid arthritis
- Follow-up care for children prescribed attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder medication
- Drugs to be avoided in the elderly
The companies participating in the certification program are: Austin Provider Solutions Inc., Catalyst Technologies Inc., DST Health Solutions, Emdeon Business Services, Ingenix, McKesson Health Solutions LLC, ODIS LLC, Q Mark Inc. and TierMed Systems LLC.
For more information, visit www.ncqa.org.
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