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dQM - Measures for HEDIS®
dQM - MEASURES FOR HEDIS®
Instant Audit-ready HEDIS Submissions & Scores
OmniQ dQM - Custom Measures enables organizations to author and operationalize custom digital measures, based on their own business, clinical and operational and jurisdictional requirements, including state programs and internal value-based initiatives.
OmniQ dQM - Measures for HEDIS delivers standards-based digital measurement using FHIR® and CQL to produce accurate, explainable results that payers and providers can trust. It transforms the quality submission and scoring process from retrospective, manual reporting into faster, actionable insight grounded in computable data and traceable logic. As measure logic and regulations evolve, updates across all supported quality programs are faster and require lower technical effort.
Fully validated by NCQA, Smile is qualified to run Digital Consent (DCS) HEDIS measures, and has demonstrated successful parallel testing results with payer data.
The True Cost of Traditional HEDIS Processes
Traditional or hybrid HEDIS reporting often uses non-standardized vendor implementations making submissions heavily manual with chart chasing. Despite growing data availability, payer and provider collaboration is burdensome, as quality and clinical teams still rely on fragmented systems and workflows that cause care gaps, avoidable risks. HEDIS reporting and scoring is static and retroactive, often as late as 18 months after avoidable incidents, which impacts member satisfaction. Since quality is reconciled after the fact, rather than managed in real time, responding to audits, adapting to measure changes and confidently standing behind reported results is harder.
Payers and Providers have been absorbing rising administrative burden for decades, attempting to manage operational friction and delays. But without audit-ready, computable measures, the HEDIS process remains an operational bottleneck, delaying insights, lowering member/ patient satisfaction, and costing the health ecosystem both in trust and financial losses.
What dQM - Measures for HEDIS Makes Possible
The solution delivers NCQA-validated digital HEDIS, at scale. Built upon FHIR and CQL, regulated measures are directly executed on aligned, computable data to produce accurate, explainable results that support payer and provider programs.
With OmniQ dQM - Measures for HEDIS, organizations can:
Using HL7 FHIR and Clinical Quality Language (CQL), both administrative (claims) and clinical (from EMRs) data are ingested and normalized so machine-readable measure logic is applied. Chart chases, manual abstraction, and spreadsheet-driven reconciliation are eliminated as clinical context, terminology and semantic harmonization across the systems is maintained. Scores are generated directly from computable data with traceable logic, producing results that highlight care gaps and risk, and are explainable for audit response.
Audit-ready outputs with traceability and less manual effort and abstraction.
dQM - Measures for HEDIS provides consistent, standards-based results that both payers and providers can collaborate on. Using CQL-based logic and traceable data quality teams can measure, monitor, and act more continuously, with fewer disputes about ‘how the rate was calculated’. This creates more holistic collaboration between Payers and Providers, as well as enhances member satisfaction, which is directly linked to STAR Ratings. Transparent logic and traceable data reduce disputes, simplify audit response, and support cross-organization alignment.
One collaborative computable measurement layer. Fewer disputes. Stronger payer–provider alignment.
The combined power of a FHIR-first CQL engine transforms NCQA’s Digital HEDIS content into sharable, computable formats that reduce manual interpretation and variability and support more timely quality improvement actions. Instead of relying solely on retrospective reconciliation, teams can identify prospective care gaps and prioritize interventions sooner, supporting value-based care with reduced administrative burden.
Quality insights that can influence outcomes and support STAR Ratings improvement efforts.
As NCQA evolves measures, static, proprietary hard-coded logic can increase duplication of effort and technical debt. OmniQ - dQM Measures for HEDIS supports digital measurement approaches that can extend to other quality programs (for example, MIPS, STAR Ratings, Medicare, Medicaid, custom and state initiatives), enabling rapid updates as regulatory requirements and measure logic evolve. Quality teams respond to change without re-engineering workflows or rebuilding logic each measurement year, supporting modernization and innovation efforts well beyond 2030.
Implement updates in weeks, not months, without disrupting operations.
Trust is in The Data
Smile dQM for HEDIS solution leverages FHIR and CQL. Our engine boasts break-through performance processing data for:
Smile and NCQA
NCQA’s roadmap targets a transition to fully digital HEDIS reporting by about Measurement Year 2030, depending on market readiness.
As a key contributor to NCQA’s Digital Content Services (DCS) Smile leverages digitized FHIR CQL HEDIS measures that help minimize programming and validation efforts and make HEDIS more accessible at all levels of healthcare.
The expert team at Smile is also a leading contributor to NCQA’s Digital Quality Implementers Community (DQIC), a collaborative consensus-based effort to develop, advance, and standardize tools and platforms, like CQL engines, that optimize digital quality measurement.
Smile’s involvement in these initiatives underscores the company's long-standing commitment to advancing healthcare quality standards. Smile’s participation in NCQA Digital HEDIS initiatives demonstrates the viability and interoperability of Digital HEDIS.
In recent parallel testing client data from MY2025, Smile’s delivered less than 1% average variance between traditional and digital measures.
Can You Run Parallel Testing on MY2025 Data?
Organizations who have started early adoption of dQM Measures for HEDIS have tangible compounding advantages, such as:
A single FHIR and CQL-based platform that ingests clinical data, evaluates digital measures, and submits results end to end. Eliminates fragmented tooling and establishes a consistent, standards-based approach to digital HEDIS execution
With parallel testing run on data as recent as MY2025, organizations can strategically plan change management across departments and providers, pilot digital measures, and refine workflows ahead of the mandates. This reduces risk and improves STAR ratings and HEDIS performance incrementally and sooner.
Compliance, audit trails, and reporting are managed within a single platform, simplifying oversight, provider system collaborative workflows, and reducing exposure as organizations move toward NCQA digital HEDIS expectations
The ability to pilot digital measures, run the requisite year of parallel testing, refine internal processes, and action real-time insights translates into lifted HEDIS scores and STAR Ratings
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