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CDS Developer/Steward

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(Last updated: Dec 04, 2025)
Get ready to collaborate, enhance your knowledge, and be part of a passionate community paving the way to quality healthcare.Stay tuned! CMS will provide conference updates in the coming weeks. 
eCQM Tool -
(Last updated: Feb 04, 2026)
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Connect is a freely available web-based platform, including an authoring tool and a repository, enabling the CDS community to identify evidence-based care, translate and codify information into an interoperable health information technology standard, and leverage…
eCQM Tool -
(Last updated: Mar 23, 2026)
Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Hooks is a specification developed by Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) and managed by its CDS Work Group. It enables near real-time decision support to be integrated directly into a clinician’s electronic health record workflow.When a specified event…
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(Last updated: Dec 04, 2025)
New date. New theme. Same dedicated commitment to quality. The 2025 CMS Quality Conference will be on July 1-2, 2025.Join us as Dr. Mehmet Oz, CMS Administrator, leads our mission to “Make America Healthy: Improving Health Outcomes Through Prevention, Quality, and Safety.”Stay tuned! Registration (…
eCQM Tool -
(Last updated: Mar 23, 2026)
The Clinical Quality Framework (CQF) is a joint effort by the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) and Clinical Quality Information Work Groups who develop standards and guidelines that allow healthcare organizations to reliably measure care quality electronically, ensuring consistency, interoperability…
eCQM Tool -
(Last updated: Mar 23, 2026)
The Clinical Quality Framework (CQF) Ruler is a collection of plugins built for the HAPI Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) Java Persistence API (JPA) server that brings the FHIR Clinical Reasoning Module to life. It enables healthcare organizations and developers to process…
eCQM Tool -
(Last updated: Mar 23, 2026)
Clinical Quality Language (CQL) Execution Framework is the engine that runs the rules and expressions defined in CQL to evaluate electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), decision support logic, or other healthcare-related computations.
eCQM Tool -
(Last updated: Mar 04, 2026)
The CQL-to-ELM Translator is an open-source reference implementation that translates the high-level Clinical Quality Language (CQL) syntax into the Expression Logical Model (ELM) representation. The reference implementation is used in support of Clinical Quality Framework implementations as a…
eCQM Tool -
(Last updated: Mar 23, 2026)
The CQMCommonQDM Library (formerly known as the Global Common Library) is a shared, standardized library of Clinical Quality Language (CQL) expressions built on the Quality Data Model (QDM).It is used by electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) developers to:Reuse common logic across multiple…
eCQM Tool -
(Last updated: Mar 14, 2025)
Crucible is a suite of open-source testing tools for Health Level Seven International® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®). It helps the FHIR development community ensure correct FHIR implementations. Crucible can test for conformance to the FHIR standards, score patient records for…