Engage in Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI)

Focuses on the development of standards to support system-agnostic implementation of clinical decision support (CDS), including messages, services, information models, and knowledge representation formalisms. Meets every Wednesday from 12 to 1 pm Eastern.

The Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support Learning Network (PCCDS-LN) addresses barriers to the effective use of PCOR findings to improve patient outcomes by ensuring that the findings are incorporated widely into clinical practice through the assistance of clinical decision support (CDS). Its initial focus is on providing a forum for stakeholders to assess both barriers and facilitators to implementing PCOR findings in CDS and make recommendations for optimizing PCOR-enabled CDS to facilitate improvements in care and outcomes. This collaborative work will establish a springboard for successfully executing the recommendations in a manner that addresses stakeholder needs and constraints.

Receive occasional updates regarding open-source, freely available CDS Connect tools—including a repository of clinical decision support (CDS) artifacts, authoring tool for creation of CDS, and prototype development tools for testing and integrating CDS into health systems.

Provides several opportunities for input on eCQM development and updates through public calls for measures, comments on measures under development, technical expert panels, and public comments

Features presentations that provide timely updates to national stakeholder organizations, specialty societies, health IT organizations and EHR vendors on new information relevant to CMS’s quality programs. Contact CMSQualityTeam@ketchum.com

Provides ability to discuss the eCQM certification tool and/or implementation questions. Meets bi-weekly. Submit topics to the Cypress Talk List.

Provides update notifications regarding eCQI news, events, and tool announcements. Create a user account and self-select items of interest to receive notifications.

FHIR is the next generation exchange framework being adopted by the healthcare community to advance interoperability. The FHIR Confluence site provides information about a variety of FHIR-related activities.

Creates and maintains information technology standards in support of improving healthcare quality, including clinical care, and fostering collaboration between quality measurement, outcomes, and improvement stakeholders. Meets every Friday from 1 to 3 pm Eastern.

Provides resources, tools, and processes to promote transparency and improve interaction across stakeholder communities that develop, implement, and report eCQMs.

Solicits participation in committees that review measures for endorsement. Check website for opportunities to engage. For more information, see the Submitting eCQMs for NQF Endorsement page.

Discusses the QDM’s use for measure development, measure implementation, consensus-based standards process, and alignment with related standards. Visit the QDM events page for meeting specifics and send an email to qdm@esacinc.com.

Provides a central site where value set authors can post value sets for collaborative discussion. In that site, teams can share threaded discussions about the value sets, view recent value set expansions posted by site members, organize their value sets.

Provides periodic e-mail newsletters with information on CMS quality measures, updates to the MMS web pages, and other CMS news.