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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,…
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…
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.
HQMF is a standards-based representation of quality measures as electronic documents written in XML. Health Level Seven International® (HL7®), an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards development organization developed and maintains HQMF. An…