The CMS Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) System is currently doing research on electronic measures. We are looking for quality staff/directors and IT staff who would be willing to talk about their experiences with data collection and submissions for the eCQMs. We are also interested in hearing your…
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On August 4, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule to update fiscal year (FY) 2026 Medicare payment policies and rates under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS).To view the…
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Provides periodic e-mail newsletters with information on CMS quality measures, updates to the MMS webpages, and other CMS news.
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Provides several opportunities for input on eCQM development and updates through public calls for measures, comments on measures under development, technical expert panels, and public comments
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The CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Implementation Guides (IGs) are technical documents that define the standards and specifications for reporting electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) using Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) QRDA. The guides provide detailed…
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The CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Pre-Submission Validation Tools are software resources designed to help healthcare providers, health information technology (IT) vendors, and reporting organizations verify the accuracy and compliance of their electronic clinical quality…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) invites you to attend the Cooking with Clinical Quality Language (CQL), Quality Data Model (QDM), and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) webinar. The webinar series provides an interactive environment for measure developers. The…
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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…
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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.
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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…