Mark your calendar! We are excited to announce that the 2026 CMS Quality Conference will return on March 16-18, 2026, both online and in person at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor. The premier event for healthcare quality nationwide will bring together a community of healthcare leaders,…
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As you prepare to turn the page to 2026, please mark your calendar for March 16–18 to join us for the most anticipated healthcare quality event of the year: The 2026 CMS Quality Conference. The theme will be Make America Healthy Again: Innovating Together for Better Health.Get ready for inspiring…
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The Submission Tool and Repository (STAR) is a measure database of quality performance measures submitted to the CMS consensus-based entity (CBE) for endorsement review. The database includes historical data for measures submitted for endorsement and maintenance to date. The CMS CBE updates the…
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Battelle is accepting nominations for the Endorsement and Maintenance (E&M) and Pre-Rulemaking Measure Review (PRMR) committees until 11:59 PM (ET) on May 15, 2025. Use the Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) nomination form to nominate yourself or others to one or more committees.…
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Join The Joint Commission, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Mathematica for two Expert to Expert Webinars. Each webinar will review measure intent and specifications, including the initial patient population, denominator, exclusions, numerator, data elements, and logic. Common…
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The Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®) is a set of files and software bringing together health and biomedical vocabularies and standards to enable interoperability between computer systems. The UMLS integrates and distributes key terminology, classification and coding standards, and…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center has updated the language on the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) menu and website, identifying hospital programs by the terms Inpatient and Outpatient.The changes reflect…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) specifications for the 2026 reporting/performance period for hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, and eligible clinician quality reporting programs. CMS updates the specifications…
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to notify users that updated Hybrid Hospital Wide Readmission (HWR) and Hybrid Hospital Wide Mortality (HWM) Hospital-Specific Reports, computed using claims, voluntary CCDEs and linking variables, are now available on the Measure…
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The Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) is a value set authoring tool and repository. It is the source of truth for value sets for CMS's electronic clinical quality measures. The National Library of Medicine maintains the VSAC and provides access via web browsers and APIs. The VSAC provides…