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The eCQI Resource Center has resources for the implementation of eCQMs throughout the website, which you can search using Advanced Search (located in the upper right of each page). Key resources include:eCQM Annual TimelineeCQM Implementation ChecklisteCQM Annual Update Implementation User…
The Guide for Reading Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) is a resource to help measured entities, quality analysts, implementers, and health information technology vendors understand eCQMs. The Guide provides background on eCQM packages, which are the building blocks of eCQMs, and an…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through ASTP/ONC, released the HTI-5 Proposed Rule. The proposed rule is open for public comment until February 27, 2026. ASTP/ONC recently posted a recorded information session with a more in-depth overview of the proposed rule.More on…
Focuses on the development of standards to support system-agnostic implementation of clinical decision support (CDS), including messages, services, information models, and knowledge representation formalisms. Meets every Wednesday from 12 to 1 pm Eastern.
The Quality Measure Implementation Guide (QM IG) is intended to provide guidance on the representation of quality measures including digital quality measures (dQMs) using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) Clinical Reasoning Module. It defines the required structure, metadata,…
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.
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…
