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Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center

Transforming eCQI through collaboration, education, and standards

Get Started with eCQMs

New to eCQMs? Learn the basics about eCQMs, development, certification, and resources to get started.

Educational Resources

Educational resources available for eCQMs and eCQI, Tools, CQL, FHIR, QDM, and QRDA.

eCQM Standards

Key standards for the electronic transmission of health information used to support eCQMs.

HL7 FHIR®

Fast Healthcare Interoperability  Resources® is a standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically. 

Latest News

The Approved Standards for 2025 were announced on June 30, 2025, and will become available for use in the ONC Health IT Certification Program on August 29, 2025. Visit the SVAP webpage for more on the newly-approved standards.For upcoming Certification Program deadlines and events, please visit… Posted on

The Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) system is now open for the voluntary submission of core clinical data elements and linking variables for the fiscal year (FY) 2027 Hybrid Hospital-Wide All-Cause Readmission (HWR) measure and Hybrid Hospital-Wide All-Cause Risk Standardized Mortality (HWM)… Posted on

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… Posted on

As part of its ongoing education and outreach efforts for electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) standards, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed two new video shorts: 

eCQM Standards Overview: Where We Are and Where We Are Going - This video highlights…
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Join The Joint Commission, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Mathematica for these five Expert to Expert Webinars for CMS Eligible Hospitals for 2025 implementation.

Each New Measure webinar will review measure intent and specifications, including the initial patient…
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