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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announce Cypress v6 with the fully integrated Cypress Validation Utility + Calculation Check (CVU+) is available as of July 24, 2020 to support 2015 Edition… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recorded a presentation on how the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR) standard can be used to advance technology to reduce quality reporting burden and increase interoperability for our healthcare community. This presentation… Posted on
Registration for the September Virtual HL7 FHIR® Connectathon is now open! The CMS eCQM Standards Team will continue to participate in the Clinical Reasoning Track with a focus on Quality Measurement and Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Use Cases. To learn more, visit the Clinical Reasoning Track… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category III Implementation Guide (IG), Schematron, and Sample Files for Eligible Clinicians and Eligible Professionals Programs. The 2021 CMS QRDA III IG outlines requirements… Posted on
This Outreach and Education webinar, Measure Collaborative Workspace Series - Measure Collaboration Workspace, eCQM Flows, and Clinical Flow Prototype, is scheduled for Wednesday, July 29, 2020, for Eligible Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, Eligible Clinicians and Eligible Professionals… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted guidance on the allowance of telehealth encounters for the Eligible Professional and Eligible Clinician electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) used in CMS quality reporting programs for the 2020 and 2021 performance periods.… Posted on
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) has updated VSAC with the most recent provisional terminology codes published by Healthcare Common Procedural Coding System (HCPCS), Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), and SNOMED CT, in response to the… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program has selected the hospitals for the validation of electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) for Calendar Year (CY) 2019 (Fiscal Year [FY] 2022 payment determination). The CY 2019 quarters… Posted on
The eCQM project will continue to focus on the testing of standards related to quality measurement in the upcoming Virtual HL7 FHIR Connectathon, September 9-11, 2020. As a result, we are seeking a variety of participants that include, but are not limited to: measure developers, EHR Vendors,… Posted on
This Outreach and Education webinar, Measure Collaboration Workspace Series – eCQI Resource Center, Hybrid Measure, Measure Collaboration Workspace, and the CMS Measures Inventory Tool is scheduled for Wednesday, July 15, 2020, for Eligible Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, Eligible Clinicians… Posted on