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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated the Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center. Find new webpages dedicated to the Quality Improvement Core (QI-Core) standard for expressing clinical quality information.The QI-Core content includes…
As part of its ongoing education and outreach efforts for electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) standards, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed two new video shorts: eCQM Standards Overview: Where We Are and Where We Are Going - This video highlights the…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the draft 2026 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category I Implementation Guide (IG) for Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) for public comment starting on April 4, 2025, and ending at 5 p.m. eastern time (ET) on April…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the draft 2026 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category III Implementation Guide (IG) for Eligible Clinician public comment starting on May 29, 2025, and ending at 5 p.m. eastern time (ET) on June 17, 2025. The…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the 2026 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category I Implementation Guide (IG), Schematron, and Sample Files for Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR). The 2026 CMS QRDA I IG outlines requirements for hospitals to…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the 2026 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category III Implementation Guide (IG), Schematron, and Sample Files for Eligible Clinician programs.The updated 2026 CMS QRDA III IG outlines requirements for Eligible…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed and published the 2026 electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) flows to the Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center. The eCQM flows, found on the eCQM resources tabs, supplement Hospital - Inpatient and…
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 posted the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specifications for measures proposed for inclusion in the 2027 reporting period for hospitals - outpatient. Measures will not be eligible for 2027 reporting unless and until they are…