The Public Comment Period for Draft CMS FHIR® Digital Quality Measures (dQMs) is now open. Comment on Eligible Clinician dQMs, Hospital - Inpatient dQMs, and Hospital - Outpatient dQMs until February 25, 2026.
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Clinical Decision Support (CDS) provides timely information to help inform decisions about a patient's care and has the ability to significantly impact improvements in quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care. The…
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The standards used for the electronic representation of CDS and eCQMs were developed separately and used different data models and computable expression languages. CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) supported efforts to identify, develop, and…
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Visit the HL7® CDS WorkgroupUse CDS Connect Community Edition, a collaborative model for CDS developmentLearn more about the CDS Innovation Collaborative on patient-centered CDSComing soon: CQL Studio, an integrated web application suite for developing, testing, and publication of CQL and…
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Learn about Key Federal CDS EffortsAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) CDS Initiative aims to advance evidence into practice through CDS and make CDS more shareable, health information technology standards-based, and publicly available. The…
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The Clinical Quality Framework (CQF) is a collaborative community of participants from the public and private sectors focused on providing tools, services, and guidance to harmonize standards for clinical decision support and electronic clinical quality measures use in clinical quality improvement.
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Connect with the Community of Professionals Who are Dedicated to Clinical Quality Improvement for Better Health
The federal government and other stakeholders provide opportunities to actively engage in eCQI efforts through open meetings, public comment periods, expert panels,…
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The Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) process represents the model by which the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) coordinates interoperability standards and implementation specifications for industry use to fulfill specific clinical health information technology…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated the Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center. Find new webpages dedicated to the Quality Improvement Core (QI-Core) standard for expressing clinical quality information.The QI-Core content includes…
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The Quality Data Model (QDM)-based CQL Style Guide provides standardized expressions of electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) concepts across eCQMs and defines a uniform “look and feel” to eCQM logic. The QDM-based CQL Style Guide focuses on a set of common best practices that have been…