The 2027 Annual Update draft measure specifications are now available. Question and comment on Eligible Clinician eCQMs, Hospital - Inpatient eCQMs, and Hospital - Outpatient eCQM until December 19, 2025.
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The Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) Secure Portal is the only CMS-approved website for secure communications and health care quality data exchange between quality improvement organizations, hospitals, physician offices, nursing homes, end-stage renal disease networks and facilities, and…
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HL7 defines the Health Quality Measures Format (HQMF) as a standard for representing a health quality measure as an electronic document. Quality measures encoded in the HQMF format are referred to as electronic clinical quality measures, or eCQMs.
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Health Quality Measure Format (HQMF) is a standards-based representation of quality measures as electronic documents written in XML. Health Level Seven International® (HL7®), an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards development organization …
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Get InvolvedParticipate in an upcoming Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) Clinical Quality Information Workgroup call. This Workgroup creates and maintains HL7 standards supporting measuring, evaluating, and reporting of quality measure data.Submit HQMF issues using the HL7 Jira Tracker.Seek…
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The Clinical Quality Language (CQL)-based HQMF Implementation Guide is a Standard for Trial Use (STU) that provides information about how to use the HQMF standard to express a measure using CQL and the Quality Data Model (QDM). HL7 Version 3 Implementation Guide: CQL-…
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The Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) system is now accepting electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) data for the calendar year (CY) 2025 reporting period. The HQR system now accepts Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category I test and production files using CY 2025 requirements.…
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The Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) system is now open for the voluntary submission of core clinical data elements and linking variables for the fiscal year (FY) 2027 Hybrid Hospital-Wide All-Cause Readmission (HWR) measure and Hybrid Hospital-Wide All-Cause Risk Standardized Mortality (HWM)…