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Now Available: "Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age," published as a featured supplement in the American Journal of Medical Quality.The supplement is open access and includesa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leadership commentary from Dr. Rebecca Bunnellan overview of the… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is notifying hospitals and vendors that the Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) System is now accepting electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) data for the calendar year (CY) 2023 reporting period. The HQR System now accepts Quality Reporting… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed and published the 2024 electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) flows. The eCQM flows supplement eCQM specifications for the 2024 reporting period for Eligible Hospitals/Critical Access Hospitals, and the 2024 performance period for… Posted on
For hospitals participating in the 2024 voluntary reporting of the Hybrid Hospital-Wide All-Cause Readmission (HWR) measure and/or the Hybrid Hospital-Wide All-Cause Risk Standardized Mortality (HWM) measure for the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program, the deadline to voluntarily… Posted on
The Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) is launching a new Endorsement and Maintenance (E&M) process for the upcoming Fall 2023 cycle. Submissions will open on September 1 and the Intent to Submit (ITS) deadline is October 2. Please note, beginning with the Fall 2023 cycle, testing… Posted on
As part of continuing education and outreach for electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) standards, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has added topics to the Teach Me Clinical Quality Language (CQL) video series. The intent of the videos is to support healthcare quality… Posted on
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted updates to the 2023 and 2024 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category I Implementation Guides (IGs), Schematrons, and Sample Files for Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR). The 2023 and 2024 CMS QRDA I IGs… Posted on
QUALITY DATA MODEL (QDM) CATEGORIES WITH RECOMMENDED CODE SYSTEMSThe Quality Data Model (QDM) Categories with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Health Information Technology Standards Committee (HITSC) Recommended Code Systems table provides guidance for the use of a recommended code… Posted on
The United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 4 (USCDI v4) was published last month. USCDI v4 includes 20 new data elements and one new data class, which advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s priorities of advancing equity, diversity, and access across all healthcare settings.The… Posted on
The annual comment period for the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) is open and will run until October 6, 2023. This is an opportunity for the public to provide comments, suggest revisions, and propose additions to the ISA before the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)… Posted on