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Semantic validation

Semantic validation is a method of testing the validity of an electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) or digital quality measure (dQM) whereby the developer compares the formal criteria in an eCQM/dQM to a manual computation of the eCQM/dQM from the same test database.

Last Updated: Dec 04, 2025