In this month’s blog, we’ll unpack our Digital Quality Maturity Model to help you stage your technology transition to Digital Quality Measurement. Whether or not you are using Astrata’s eMeasure Digital Engine, you can use the digital quality implementation maturity...

If you had a chance to read Part 1 of this blog last week you know that I am extremely optimistic about the value of generative AI to healthcare quality measurement. In Part 2 of this blog, I am going to give you a sense of how these technologies work as well as what...

It’s been over a year since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. And this is my first blog on the topic of how I think this new technology will fundamentally change healthcare Quality measurement and improvement. Why the wait? With the extraordinary flurry of activity,...

This month we're diving deep into a brand new Astrata offering - an archetypal, first-in-breed product with transformational potential for value-based healthcare. Quality Navigator represents the third product in Astrata’s overall quality solution suite, tying ...

Navigating the transition to Digital Quality is like crossing a fast-moving stream. You want to get across without falling in and getting washed away! You may not know how long it will take to get across, but you don’t want to be stuck on the shore when the water...

Many payers are either experimenting with or fully implementing a prospective HEDIS review process. If you're looking for strategies to optimize your prospective review, these ten tips and tricks will help you derive maximal value. Many payers are either experimenting...

Last year ChatGPT exploded on to the scene, kicking off a flurry of technology development with impact across many industries. The technology underlying ChatGPT (known as large language models or LLMs) has actually been around and evolving for several years. And these...

This month's blog talks about the importance of unstructured data to achieving digital quality. Unstructured data is clinically valuable and likely here to stay, and NLP can help us embrace it to improve quality. The journey to digital quality is first and foremost a...

This month we are going to discuss what it takes to stand up a digital quality program. Most health plans are somewhere on this transformative journey, either in the planning stages or starting to experiment with potential models. If you are one of these health plans,...

In this installment of our monthly series, we’ll dig into the problem of data quality. It’s not all doom and gloom. With some planning, you can get the most out of your NLP vendor while paving a path to higher-quality data across your entire organization. This blog...

Last month, the US Patent Office granted Astrata's first patent, Abstracting Information from Patient Medical Records, US 11,315,668 B2. This patent describes the Natural Language Processing innovations that power Astrata's Chart Review. This NLP technology surfaces...

One NLP engine to rule them all? Astrata's president explains why it's not that simple, how an NLP engine optimized for Risk Adjustment can let Quality gaps slip through the system, and why we need robust new technologies that can make Quality an equal player in...

NLP is gaining traction in both payer and provider markets because it can markedly reduce the extraordinary labor costs associated with measuring healthcare quality. I’m often asked about how we validate our NLP systems for measuring quality for programs like HEDIS®...