The 2027 Annual Update draft measure specifications are now available. Question and comment on Eligible Clinician eCQMs, Hospital - Inpatient eCQMs, and Hospital - Outpatient eCQM until December 19, 2025.
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.