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The ASTP/ONC Project Tracking System (Jira) is a collaboration platform hosted by the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP)/Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). It provides users with a common place to transparently log, track, and discuss issues with…
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Connect is a freely available web-based platform, including an authoring tool and a repository, enabling the CDS community to identify evidence-based care, translate and codify information into an interoperable health information technology standard, and leverage…
CMS Measures Inventory Tool (CMIT) is the repository of record for information about CMS quality measures. CMS and its partners use the inventory to inform stakeholders, manage its measure portfolio, and guide measure development. The functions allow users to find measures quickly, compile and…
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…
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).…
The Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) Data Exchange for Quality Measures (DEQM) Implementation Guide (IG) provides a framework defining conformance profiles and guidance to enable the exchange of quality improvement information including quality measure reporting (e.g., for transferring…
The eCQM Data Element Repository (DERep) provides clarification, definitions, and clinical context for the data elements associated with electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) used in CMS quality reporting and incentive programs. This resource is designed to help implementers accurately…
The electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) Flows are flowcharts designed to assist in the interpretation of the eCQM logic and provide the calculation methodology to determine measure scores. These flows provide an overview of each of the population criteria components and associated data…
The Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) Logic and Implementation Guidance is a resource document which provides guidance for understanding, using, and/or implementing eCQMs. This document includes useful context and details regarding topics such as Clinical Quality Language…
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…
