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 been updated to identify specific CMS programs and payment models associated with Eligible Clinician (EC) electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs).Starting with the 2023…
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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 & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Calendar Year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, which includes updates for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) for the 2026 Performance Year (PY) and beyond.The Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (…
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The United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) + is a standardized set of health data classes and constituent data elements for nationwide, interoperable health information exchange.
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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…
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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…
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The Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) Sharing Value Set (SVS) Application Programming Interface (API) allows the user to retrieve one or more value set expansions, with or without its metadata and definition version, using RetrieveMultipleValueSets and RetrieveValueSet, respectively. It is based on…