FHIR® Measure Tooling and Resources
| Tool/Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| ClinFHIR | ClinFHIR is an open-source tool providing an educational environment and also allows health information technology developers to create or search for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®)-based resources. It serves as a training tool to help people wanting to learn more about FHIR visualize how the parts combine to represent clinical information in a structured and coded manner. It also serves as a development tool with features to build some of the required artifacts, particularly as an aid to learning. |
| CQL Runner | Clinical Quality Language (CQL) Runner is an online platform for ad hoc testing of CQL. |
| DEQM IG | The Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) Data Exchange for Quality Measures (DEQM) Implementation Guide (IG) defines how healthcare systems exchange quality measurement information using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®). It provides a standard way for healthcare organizations, payers, and other systems to share digital quality measure (dQM) data in a consistent and interoperable format. For example, the DEQM IG supports the electronic exchange of quality reporting information between healthcare providers, health plans, public health agencies, and other organizations. The DEQM IG supports several types of quality reporting, including:
The DEQM Individual MeasureReport profile provides a FHIR-based approach for patient-level quality reporting and serves a similar purpose as Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category I. The DEQM Summary MeasureReport profile provides a FHIR-based approach for aggregate quality reporting and serves a similar purpose as QRDA Category III for aggregate reporting. The DEQM IG is developed and maintained by the HL7’s Clinical Quality Information (CQI) Work Group through the HL7 standards development and balloting process. It is coordinated with related IGs, including the Quality Measure IG and the Quality Improvement Core (QI-Core) IG, to help ensure consistency across HL7 quality measurement standards. |
| FHIR Implementation Guide Registry | The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) Implementation Guide (IG) Registry is a centralized repository or catalog that stores and organizes IGs, which are structured documents providing instructions for how to implement specific technical standards, usually in the context of healthcare interoperability. These guides often define how data should be formatted, exchanged, and interpreted to ensure systems can communicate consistently. |
| FHIR Quality Measure Implementation Guide | The intent of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) Quality Measure Implementation Guide (IG) or QM IG is to provide guidance on the representation of digital quality measures (dQMs) using the FHIR® Clinical Reasoning Module, Quality Improvement (QI)-Core IG, and Clinical Quality Language (CQL). It provides requirements for the use of measure structure, metadata, definitions, and logic when authoring and evaluating dQMs. |
| FHIR Servers - Public Test Servers | Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) provides a list of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) servers publicly available for testing. These are public services provided by volunteers and HL7® makes no representations concerning their safety or reliability. |
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| Inferno | Inferno is an open-source tool designed for creating, executing, and sharing automated conformance tests for the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) standard. Hosted on HealthIT.gov, Inferno offers a public service for running select FHIR conformance tests, including those relevant to the ONC Health IT Certification Program. It features the ONC Certification (g)(10) Standardized API Test Kit and tests for various FHIR Implementation Guides. Inferno provides flexible tools for testing systems for FHIR conformance, allowing users to run tests locally or integrate them into external tools and continuous integration pipelines. |
| Postman | Postman is a collaboration platform designed for developing and testing application programming interfaces (APIs). It serves as a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) client that allows users to test HTTP requests and receive various types of responses through an intuitive graphical user interface. Postman simplifies interactions with Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) servers, enabling users to post requests and updates efficiently. It is particularly useful for testing FHIR-based digital quality measures (dQMs) during Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) Connectathons. |
| QI-Core IG | The Quality Improvement Core (QI-Core) Implementation Guide (IG) provides the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based clinical data model used for digital quality measures (dQMs) and clinical decision support (CDS). Built on US-Core IG, QI-Core defines profiles that constrain FHIR resources to support consistent representation of clinical data used in quality measurement, dQM development, and CDS authoring. The aim for QI-Core is to replace the Quality Data Model (QDM) as the data model for dQMs. |
| Synthea™ | Synthea™ is an open-source, synthetic patient generator that models the medical history of synthetic patients. It provides realistic, but not real, patient data and associated health records covering every aspect of health care. The resulting data is free from cost, privacy, and security restrictions, enabling research with health information technology data that is otherwise legally or practically unavailable. Browse and download pre-generated synthetic records. |