The Public Comment is now open through March 25, 2026 on the Draft 2027 CMS QRDA I Implementation Guide, Schematron, and Sample File for Hospital Quality Reporting
Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is a Health Level Seven International® Normative Standard and it is part of the effort to harmonize standards between electronic clinical quality measures and clinical decision support. CQL provides the ability to express logic that is human readable yet structured enough for processing a query electronically.