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Due to the federal government shutdown, the eCQI Resource Center has paused updates to site information. Any updates, questions, and requests will resume when the government is re-opened. Note this includes all eCQM related help desks and Jira.
A CMS Electronic Health Record (EHR) Certification ID is a number generated by the Certified Health Information Technology (IT) Product List (CHPL) and used for reporting to CMS. It represents a single product or combination of products in the CHPL. The CMS EHR Certification ID is different from…
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 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Pre-Submission Validation Tools are resources offering QRDA validation tools available to submitters. The intent is to give users a single point of reference for these tools and assist them in selecting the most appropriate tool to meet their…
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…
This document describes the versions of the standards and code systems used in conjunction with the updated eCQMs for potential use in CMS programs for a given reporting/performance period.
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) is an open-source Health Level Seven International® standard for exchanging health care information electronically. It is the next generation exchange framework being adopted by the health care community to advance interoperability.
The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) Examples is a webpage in the Quality Measure Implementation Guide containing example eCQMs using FHIR.
The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) Implementation Guide Registry is a list of many of the implementation guides defined by the FHIR community.
The Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) Quality Reporting Document Architecture Category I Implementation Guide (HL7 QRDA I IG) describes constraints on HL7's Clinical Document Architecture Release 2 (CDA R2) to create a QRDA I document. QRDA Category I is for reporting quality data at the…
