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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to notify users that updated Hybrid Hospital Wide Readmission (HWR) and Hybrid Hospital Wide Mortality (HWM) Hospital-Specific Reports, computed using claims, voluntary CCDEs and linking variables, are now available on the Measure…
US Core is a set of rules and best practices that help healthcare providers share patient information safely and efficiently across the United States. It uses the FHIR standard to align how data—such as patient records, medications, and lab results—is formatted and exchanged. These rules follow…
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…
Provides a central site where value set authors can post value sets for collaborative discussion. In that site, teams can share threaded discussions about the value sets, view recent value set expansions posted by site members, organize their value sets.
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…
The Value Set Authority Center (VSAC) Sharing Value Set (SVS) Application Programming Interface (API) allows the user to retrieve a single value set's expansion, with or without its metadata and definition version, using RetrieveMultipleValueSets and RetrieveValueSet, respectively. It is based on…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to remind eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) participating in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program of the calendar year (CY) 2023 certified electronic health record (EHR) technology (CEHRT) requirements.…