New Resources Available: Teach Me Clinical Quality Language (CQL) Video Series

As part of continuing education and outreach for electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) standards, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed a video short series entitled “Teach Me Clinical Quality Language (CQL).” The intent of the videos is to support healthcare quality leaders, health information technology vendors, and measure developers explore the use of CQL.

The Teach Me CQL series includes four video shorts covering several topics.

• Video #1: NormalizeInterval
  • This video examines the usage of the NormalizeInterval function found in the Global Common Library used across CMS quality programs that use eCQMs.
• Video #2: Time Zone Considerations
  • In this video, viewers will learn to express time zone considerations in eCQMs and be able to state the difference between the DayOf, ToDate, and precision operators.
• Video #3: Latest, LatestOf, Earliest, EarliestOf, HasStart, HasEnd
  • This video explores  the Global Common Library and why eCQM developers should use the Global Common Library. Viewers will also learn to define how the LatestOf and EarliestOf functions contained in the Global Common Library and additional functions called within each.
• Video #4: Coalesce
  • This video delves into how to use the coalesce function in eCQM logic.

Please submit CQL-related questions to cql@icf.com. To find tools, resources, and additional CQL educational materials, visit the CQL page on the Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center.