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(Last updated: Mar 06, 2026)
Introduction to eCQMseCQM Standards Overview: Where We Are and Where We Are GoingJune 2025Patient Safety-Related eCQMsMarch 4, 2024eCQM BasicsUpdated February 2026eCQM Communications ResourcesUpdated February 2026eCQM 101 - Getting Started with Electronic Clinical Quality Measures for Quality…
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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
The eCQI Resource Center has resources for the implementation of eCQMs throughout the website, which you can search using Advanced Search (located in the upper right of each page). Key resources include:eCQM Annual TimelineeCQM Implementation ChecklisteCQM Annual Update Implementation User…
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(Last updated: Dec 10, 2025)
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(Last updated: Mar 24, 2026)
The Guide for Reading Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) is a resource designed to help healthcare professionals, implementers, and developers understand how eCQMs are structured, calculated, and reported. eCQMs are standardized measures used to assess the quality of care provided to…
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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…
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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…
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(Last updated: Mar 03, 2026)
The Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) Quality Reporting Document Architecture Category I Implementation Guide (HL7 QRDA I IG) describes constraints on HL7's Clinical Document Architecture Release 2 (CDA R2) to create a QRDA I document. QRDA Category I is for reporting quality data at the…
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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,…
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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…
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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)…