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HEDIS Health Plan Employer Data & Information Set Managed care An initiative by the National Committee on Quality Assurance to develop, collect, standardize, and report measures of health plan performances. See National Committee for
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HEDIS is being used to track 60 categories including immunization rates and percentage of women getting mammographies to gauge quality of care. The HEDIS data set includes questions about how frequently screening procedures are performed, measured either by retrospective chart review, which is expensive, or by data stored in electronically medical records in physicians, offices, submmitted inexpensively to employers and their representatives electronically, right into databases used to compare the performance of health plans. The first nationwide system to provide standardized evaluations of the performance of health plans, called HEDIS 1. |
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