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By Rhonda Spellmeier MBA, BSN, RN, HIE Workflow Specialist Quality is the bedrock of healthcare. Everyone, including clinicians, administrators, payers, and patients wants to ensure the care being provided is appropriate, effective, and efficient. With the explosion of electronic health record implementations in the last fifteen years, quality is still at the forefront of our…

By Melissa Talley, BSN, MBA, Director of Quality Clinical Services Data quality is one of the most intractable problems that affects all users of healthcare information. Providers need confidence in data from third-party systems to make clinical decisions. Patients need to know their data will move smoothly and accurately across systems. And Payers need to trust that data is…

By Amber Epperson, Data Quality Specialist Data integrity and accuracy are paramount in healthcare. KONZA is at the forefront of these efforts, with the largest number of facilities in the nation that have achieved NCQA Data Aggregator Validation (DAV) accreditation. But what exactly is NCQA DAV accreditation, and why is it so valuable for providers?…

By Chris Guerrero, Director of Public Health Services The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and KONZA were selected to present “MDRO RapidAlerts Pilot: Utilizing State Health Information Exchange for Automated, Real-Time MDRO Admission Alerts” at the annual Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) conference, held June 10-13 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The CSTE Annual…