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The CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Implementation Guides (IGs) are based on the Health Level Seven International® QRDA IGs. The CMS QRDA Category I IG is used for hospital CMS quality reporting programs. The CMS QRDA Category III IG is used for eligible clinician CMS…
The Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) System includes troubleshooting functionality in the test portion of the HQR System, such as checking for valid submission period dates and providing measure outcome information. Submitters can perform all functions for validation of CMS QRDA Category I files in…
The Clinical Quality Framework (CQF) is a collaborative community of participants from the public and private sectors focused on providing tools, services, and guidance to harmonize standards for clinical decision support and electronic clinical quality measures use in clinical quality improvement.
Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is a Health Level Seven International® Normative Standard and it is part of the effort to harmonize standards between electronic clinical quality measures and clinical decision support. CQL provides the ability to express logic that is human readable yet…
A Clinical Quality Language (CQL) library is a container for artifact logic/expressions. A CQL library contains declarations which specify the items found in the library. Every electronic clinical quality measure has at least one CQL library. For more information, see the Quality Data Model (QDM)-…
A CQMCommonQDM Library (formerly known as Global Common Library) is a shared Quality Data Model (QDM) based-Clinical Quality Language (CQL) library which contains CQL expressions for all eCQM developers to use when specifying electronic clinical quality measures. The CQMCommonQDM Library…
Crucible is a suite of open-source testing tools for Health Level Seven International® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®). It helps the FHIR development community ensure correct FHIR implementations. Crucible can test for conformance to the FHIR standards, score patient records for…
Cypress, with the fully integrated Cypress Validation Utility + Calculation Check (CVU+), is an open source testing tool used by vendors to certify their electronic health records (EHRs) and health information technology (IT) modules for calculating electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs).…
