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Eligible Clinician

Submit a Nomination to Join a PQM Committee

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
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.…

Two Expert to Expert Webinars Introducing New eCQMs for 2025 Implementation

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
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…

Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®)

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
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…

Updated eCQI Resource Center with CMS Program Information

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center has been updated to identify specific CMS programs and payment models associated with Eligible Clinician (EC) electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs).Starting with the 2023…

Updated eCQM menu and language on the eCQI Resource Center

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
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…

Updated eCQM Specifications and Implementation Resources for 2026 Reporting/Performance Period

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
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…

Value Set Authority Center (VSAC)

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
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…

VSAC Support Center

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
The VSAC Support Center is the Help section of the Value Set Authority Center website. It provides information on how to use the VSAC, specific information for value set authors and stewards (e.g., how to create value sets), and additional information such as release notes and how to use the VSAC…

VSAC SVS API

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
The Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) Sharing Value Set (SVS) Application Programming Interface (API) allows the user to retrieve a single value set's expansion, with or without its metadata and definition version, using RetrieveMultipleValueSets and RetrieveValueSet, respectively. It is based on…
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