Astrata and Smile CDR Announce NCQA Certification for Next-Generation Digital Quality Measurement Engine

July 12, 2022, PITTSBURGH, PA and TORONTO, ON/PRNewswire/ — Astrata, a market innovator in Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS¹) natural language processing (NLP) and healthcare quality solutions, and Smile CDR, a leading health data and integration company, announced today that their Digital HEDIS solution, eMeasure, is one of the first digital HEDIS engines to earn the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Certification for new digital measures. NCQA Certification programs evaluate systems and processes that support data collection, surveys, and quality improvement. This initial Certification, which includes the breast cancer screening (BCS-E) and colorectal cancer screening (COL-E) measures, follows successful beta-testing of the new Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR^®)-based digital measures by the Astrata team in collaboration with NCQA.