Now Available: Cypress™ v7.1

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announce the release of Cypress v7.1 as of June 22, 2023. The new release, along with release notes, are available on the Cypress website.
Version 7.1 includes the fully integrated Cypress Validation Utility + Calculation Check (CVU+) supporting the 2015 Edition Cures Update Certification for the ONC Certification Program for electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). This version also supports testing the Eligible Hospital/Critical Access Hospital eCQMs, the Eligible Clinician eCQMs, and the Outpatient Quality Reporting eCQMs updated for calendar year 2023 and 2024 reporting.

Cypress v7.1 Features

• Supports the 2015 Edition Cures Update §170.315(c)(1), §170.315(c)(2), §170.315(c)(3), and §170.315(c)(4) certification criteria.
• Enforces reporting requirements defined by the CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Implementation Guides.
• For the 2023 and 2024 Reporting Periods
  • Supports validation with HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) Release 2 Implementation Guide: QRDA I, Release 1, Standard for Trial Use (STU) Release 5.3 – US Realm
  • Supports validation with HL7 CDA® Release 2 Implementation Guide: QRDA III, Release 1
• Supports the eCQMs for eReporting for the 2023 Reporting Period (eCQM value sets as of May 5, 2022).
• Supports the eCQMs for eReporting for the 2024 Reporting Period (eCQM value sets as of May 4, 2023).

CVU+ Features

• Supports validation with the CMS Implementation Guides for QRDA Category I – Implementation Guide for 2023 and 2024.
• Supports validation with the CMS Implementation Guides for QRDA Category III – Implementation Guide for 2023 and preliminary support for 2024.