Glossary

The ONC ASTP Project Tracking System (Jira) is a collaboration platform hosted by the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)/Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP). It provides users with a common place to transparently log, track, and discuss issues with subject matter experts on many topics, including electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) implementation. CMS uses Jira during most phases of the eCQM lifecycle, including development, implementation, and maintenance.  The ONC/ASTP Project Tracking  System (Jira) and Confluence have a 90-day account deactivation policy for all users who have not logged into systems for a period of 90 days or longer. 

Reminder: 
This is an open platform that does not intend for users to communicate sensitive or confidential information such as protected health information and personal identifiable information.

An ontology is a machine-readable, formal representation of knowledge within a domain but also understandable to humans. It typically includes unique hierarchically arranged concepts that have specific attributes and are semantically related to other concepts. Dissanayake, P. I., Colicchio, T. K., & Cimino, J. J. (2020). Using clinical reasoning ontologies to make smarter clinical decision support systems: a systematic review and data synthesis. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 27(1), 159-174. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocz169

An outcome measure is a measure focusing on the health status of a patient (or change in health status) resulting from health care - desirable or adverse.