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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP) announce the release of Cypress v7.4 as of June 18, 2025. The new release, along with release notes, are available on…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) Annual Update Pre-Publication Document, which provides the versions of the standards and code systems used within the updated eCQMs for potential use in CMS quality…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated and re-published the 2025 electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) flow for CMS871v4 (Hospital Harm – Severe Hyperglycemia) to the eCQI Resource Center. As background, CMS871 is a ratio measure where calculations are…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated the Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) Data Element Repository (DERep) to provide information on eCQMs used in CMS quality reporting and incentive programs for the calendar year (CY) 2026 reporting and performance periods.…
Pioneers in Quality™ is a collaborative Joint Commission program to improve health care quality and patient safety through education (e.g., webinars for continuing education units), innovation, and recognition of pioneering practices for Joint Commission interested parties. Started in 2016 to…
Postman is a collaboration platform designed for developing and testing application programming interfaces (APIs). It serves as a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) client that allows users to test HTTP requests and receive various types of responses through an intuitive graphical user interface.…
The QDM is a conceptual information model that defines clinical patient data and concepts in a standardized format to enable electronic quality performance measurement. The model is the current structure for electronically representing quality measure concepts for stakeholders involved in…
The Quality Data Implementation (QDI) User Group, formerly the QDM User Group, is a group of volunteer members who use the QDM and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources®-related standards for measure development and measure implementation. The QDI User Group meets at 3:00 p.m. ET on…
Introduction to Quality Data Model (QDM)Pioneers in Quality Video Shorts - eCQM Basics Series 1 - January 7, 2021 (Free registration is required to view the videos)What is a QDM Data Element Webinar What is a Datatype - WebinarWhat is an Attribute - WebinarVisit the QDM FAQs page to…
Current Version of the QDM in UseThe most recent version of the QDM is QDM v5.6. It was published January 2021 and lists all changes from QDM v5.5 Guidance Update in section 7.1 and highlights all data model changes throughout the document with red text.Previous QDM Version InformationFor reference…
