(NCQA: Washington, DC) -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has released its latest edition of Quality Compass, one of the nation's leading databases of comparable information on clinical performance and patient experience for 415 commercial health plan products serving 94 million enrollees.

Quality Compass 2009 allows subscribers to generate custom reports by selecting health plans, measures, and benchmarks for up to three years of data. Data can also be compared against state, regional, and national benchmarks. In addition, the optional Data Exporter allows users to download their customized reports to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for further analysis. Improvements to Quality Compass 2009 include:
• Simplified report building and analysis
• Expanded benchmark options
• Ability to share reports with other licensed users
• Capabilities to build custom reports with more measures
• Two new measures of care and service quality—pharmacotherapy management of COPD exacerbation and consumer survey results on the ease with which members can find the cost of prescription medicines and other health care services or equipment

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