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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 Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) coordinates interoperability standards and implementation specifications for industry use to fulfill specific clinical health…
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The upcoming HL7 FHIR® Virtual Connectathon is taking place between May 2-4, 2022. The CMS eCQM Standards Team will continue to participate in the Clinical Reasoning Track with a focus on Quality Measurement and Clinical Decision Support Use Cases and are seeking participants to…
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The QDM User Group is expanding scope and changing its name to accommodate the wider breadth of data models and standards available for expressing quality measures. With the coming move to FHIR standards for quality measurement, the group has seen an increase in discussion around the use of…
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In late 2021, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI)+ initiative that builds on the USCDI model to address the need for harmonized data elements for a wider set of use cases than USCDI, especially priority use…
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Value Set Authority Center (VSAC), with support from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is pleased to announce the launch of several new functionalities within VSAC.
VSAC Comparison Tool
The Comparison Tool allows you to compare many…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published new Value Set Guidance under the Resources menu of the Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center. The new pages include guidance intended for value set authors. The guidance provides direction on the…
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The Joint Commission has been working with clinical and informatics experts who serve on a Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) to develop an electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) of PC-06 "Unexpected Complications in Term Newborns". This is a potential eCQM for utilization in The Joint…
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The Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) Quality Improvement Core (QI-Core) Implementation Guide (IG) defines a set of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) profiles with extensions and bindings needed to create interoperable, quality-focused applications. The profiles in this IG…