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The Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) Secure Portal is a CMS-approved website for secure communications and health care quality data exchange between quality improvement organizations, hospitals, physician offices, nursing homes, end-stage renal disease networks and facilities, and data…
HL7 defines the Health Quality Measures Format (HQMF) as a standard for representing a health quality measure as an electronic document. Quality measures encoded in the HQMF format are referred to as electronic clinical quality measures, or eCQMs.
HQMF is a standards-based representation of quality measures as electronic documents written in XML. Health Level Seven International® (HL7®), an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards development organization developed and maintains HQMF. An…
Get InvolvedParticipate in an upcoming Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) Clinical Quality Information Workgroup call. This Workgroup creates and maintains HL7 standards supporting measuring, evaluating, and reporting of quality measure data.Submit HQMF issues using the HL7 Jira Tracker.Seek…
The Clinical Quality Language (CQL)-based HQMF Implementation Guide is a Standard for Trial Use (STU) that provides information about how to use the HQMF standard to express a measure using CQL and the Quality Data Model (QDM). HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: CQL-…
Inferno is an open-source tool designed for creating, executing, and sharing automated conformance tests for the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) standard. Hosted on HealthIT.gov, Inferno offers a public service for running select FHIR conformance tests, including those relevant…
The Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) process represents the model by which the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) coordinates interoperability standards and implementation specifications for industry use to fulfill specific clinical health information technology…
Join the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on September 17, 2025, at 2 p.m. (ET) for the webinar “Measuring Malnutrition.” Malnutrition is a hidden epidemic affecting millions of hospitalized patients—and yet, it often goes undiagnosed and untreated. Register to attend.Meeting…
The MADiE User Group is an open forum to discuss the status of the tools and gather community and user feedback on planned enhancements and releases. The User Group is scheduled to meet at 2pm ET on the third Thursday of every month. NOTE: Due to June 19th being a Federal holiday, the…
The Measure Authoring Development Integrated Environment (MADiE) is a software tool redefining the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) development and testing process by making it a self-contained process including dynamic authoring and testing within a single application. MADiE allows eCQM…
