Engage in Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI)

Receive occasional updates regarding open-source, freely available CDS Connect tools—including a repository of clinical decision support (CDS) artifacts, authoring tool for creation of CDS, and prototype development tools for testing and integrating CDS into health systems.

Provides periodic e-mail newsletters with information on CMS quality measures, updates to the MMS webpages, and other CMS news.

Provides several opportunities for input on eCQM development and updates through public calls for measures, comments on measures under development, technical expert panels, and public comments

Features presentations that provide timely updates to national stakeholder organizations, specialty societies, health IT organizations and EHR vendors on new information relevant to CMS’s quality programs. Contact CMSQualityTeam@ketchum.com

Provides ability to discuss the eCQM certification tool and/or implementation questions. Meets monthly. Submit topics to the Cypress Talk List.

Provides update notifications regarding eCQI news, events, and tool announcements. Create a user account and self-select items of interest to receive notifications.

Volunteer forum of eCQI Resource Center users that use the site to obtain resources necessary for electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) development, implementation, reporting, and education on key eCQM and eCQI concepts and standards. The eCQI Resource Center User Group meets bi-monthly at 3:00pm EST on the third Tuesday.  

FHIR is the next generation exchange framework being adopted by the healthcare community to advance interoperability. The FHIR Confluence site provides information about a variety of FHIR-related activities.

An HL7 FHIR Connectathon is an event centered on developing the HL7 FHIR Specification including resources, profiles, and implementation guides. The purpose of a Connectathon is to prove the specification is complete and facilitate FHIR implementation guide maturity.

Focuses on the development of standards to support system-agnostic implementation of clinical decision support (CDS), including messages, services, information models, and knowledge representation formalisms. Meets every Wednesday from 12 to 1 pm Eastern.

Creates and maintains information technology standards in support of improving healthcare quality, including clinical care, and fostering collaboration between quality measurement, outcomes, and improvement stakeholders. Meets every Friday from 1 to 3 pm Eastern.

The Measure Authoring Tool (MAT) and Bonnie User Group is an open forum to discuss the status of the tools and gather community and user feedback on planned enhancements and releases. The User Group is scheduled to meet the third Thursday of every month. Register for the MAT, Bonnie, and MADiE User Group via the meeting appointment.

Provides resources, tools, and processes to promote transparency and improve interaction across stakeholder communities that develop, implement, and report eCQMs.

Solicits participation in committees to review measures for potential inclusion (pre-rulemaking review) and continuation (measure set review) in CMS quality programs and endorsement (endorsement and maintenance). Check their website for opportunities to engage.

Discusses the data models (including QDM and QI Core) used for measure development, measure implementation, consensus-based standards process, clinical decision support, and alignment with related standards. Visit the QDM Connect page and/or the eCQI Resource Center events calendar for meeting specifics. Send questions to qdm@icf.com.

Provides a central site where value set authors can post value sets for collaborative discussion. In that site, teams can share threaded discussions about the value sets, view recent value set expansions posted by site members, organize their value sets.