Pioneers in Quality™ is a collaborative Joint Commission program to improve health care quality and patient safety through education (e.g., webinars for continuing education units), innovation, and recognition of pioneering practices for Joint Commission interested parties. Started in 2016 to…
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Postman is a collaboration platform designed for developing and testing application programming interfaces (APIs). It serves as a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) client that allows users to test HTTP requests and receive various types of responses through an intuitive graphical user interface.…
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The upcoming CMS Quality Conference, Elevating Quality — Advancing Optimal Health for Individuals, Families, Caregivers, Clinicians and Communities!, orIginally scheduled for March 17-19, 2025, has been postponed. Future conference dates will be announced at a later time.Please monitor the…
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The Quality Data Model (QDM) is a conceptual information model that defines clinical patient data and concepts in a standardized format to enable electronic quality performance measurement. The model is the current structure for electronically representing quality measure concepts for stakeholders…
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The Quality Data Implementation (QDI) User Group, formerly the QDM User Group, is a group of volunteer members who use the QDM and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources®-related standards for measure development and measure implementation. The QDI User Group meets at 3:00 p.m. ET on…
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Introduction to Quality Data Model (QDM)Pioneers in Quality Video Shorts - eCQM Basics Series 1 - January 7, 2021 (Free registration is required to view the videos)What is a QDM Data Element Webinar What is a Datatype - WebinarWhat is an Attribute - WebinarVisit the QDM FAQs page to…
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Current Version of the QDM in UseThe most recent version of the QDM is QDM v5.6. It was published January 2021 and lists all changes from QDM v5.5 Guidance Update in section 7.1 and highlights all data model changes throughout the document with red text.Previous QDM Version InformationFor reference…
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The Quality Data Model (QDM)-based CQL Style Guide provides standardized expressions of electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) concepts across eCQMs and defines a uniform “look and feel” to eCQM logic. The QDM-based CQL Style Guide focuses on a set of common best practices that have been…