The Public Comment Period for Draft CMS FHIR® Digital Quality Measures (dQMs) is now open. Comment on Eligible Clinician dQMs, Hospital - Inpatient dQMs, and Hospital - Outpatient dQMs until February 23, 2026.
A Quality Data Model (QDM) attribute provides specific details about a QDM data element. QDM version 5.6 includes only datatype-specific attributes, i.e., metadata, or information about each QDM datatype the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) developer may use in eCQM expressions to provide necessary details for calculation.