Now Available: Cypress™ v7.4

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP) announce the release of Cypress v7.4 as of June 18, 2025. The new release, along with release notes, are available on the Cypress website.

Version 7.4 includes the fully integrated Cypress Validation Utility + Calculation Check (CVU+) supporting the ONC Certification Program for electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM). This version also supports testing the Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient eCQMs as well as the Eligible Clinician eCQMs updated for calendar year 2025 and 2026 reporting.

Cypress v7.4 Features

• Supports the §170.315(c)(1), §170.315(c)(2), §170.315(c)(3), and §170.315(c)(4) certification criteria.
• Enforces reporting requirements defined by the CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Implementation Guides.
  • Supports validation with HL7 CDA® Release 2 Implementation Guide: QRDA I, Release 1, Standard for Trial Use (STU) Release 5.3 – US Realm
  • Supports validation with HL7 CDA® Release 2 Implementation Guide: QRDA III, Release 1
• Supports the eCQMs for Reporting for the 2025 Reporting Period (eCQM value sets as of May 2, 2024).
• Supports the eCQMs for Reporting for the 2026 Reporting Period (eCQM value sets as of May 8, 2025).

CVU+ Features

• Supports validation with the CMS Implementation Guides for QRDA Category I – Implementation Guide for 2025 and 2026.
• Supports validation with the CMS Implementation Guides for QRDA Category III – Implementation Guide for 2025 and preliminary support for 2026.