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Guide for Reading eCQMs

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(Last updated: Feb 11, 2026)
The Guide for Reading Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) is a resource to help measured entities, quality analysts, implementers, and health information technology vendors understand eCQMs. The Guide provides background on eCQM packages, which are the building blocks of eCQMs, and an…

Help Shape the Future of AHRQ’s Quality Indicators

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
AHRQ has launched a brief user survey, and we want to hear from you. Whether you use AHRQ’s Quality Indicators for quality improvement, benchmarking, reporting, or research, your insights are key to ensuring these tools remain relevant, effective, and impactful.This is your opportunity to share how…

HHS Wants Your Ideas to Accelerate AI in Clinical Care

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(Last updated: Dec 23, 2025)
In collaboration with the HHS’ Deputy Secretary’s office, ASTP/ONC has released a Request for Information focused on how to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical care to ensure it works for American patients. We are especially interested in comments from those building AI…

HL7 Quality Measure IG

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
The Quality Measure Implementation Guide (QM IG) is intended to provide guidance on the representation of quality measures including digital quality measures (dQMs) using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) Clinical Reasoning Module. It defines the required structure, metadata,…

Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) System

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(Last updated: Jan 09, 2026)
The Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) Secure Portal is a 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 data…

HQMF

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(Last updated: Jan 29, 2025)
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.

HQR System Now Accepting Hybrid HWR and Hybrid HWM Measure Data for the FY 2027 Payment Determination

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
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)…

Inferno

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(Last updated: Mar 19, 2025)
Inferno is an open-source tool designed for creating, executing, and sharing automated conformance tests for the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) standard. Hosted on HealthIT.gov, Inferno offers a public service for running select FHIR conformance tests, including those relevant…

ISA

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(Last updated: Feb 06, 2026)
The Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) process represents the model by which the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) coordinates interoperability standards and implementation specifications for industry use to fulfill specific clinical health information technology…

Join CMS for a Webinar on Quality Measurement and Obesity

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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
Obesity is a major and growing public health concern, affecting more than two in five U.S. adults. Addressing this chronic disease requires coordinated efforts from healthcare professionals and policymakers; quality measurement plays a vital role in those efforts.Join the Centers for Medicare…
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