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eCQM

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(Last updated: Dec 06, 2025)
Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is a Health Level Seven International® Normative Standard and it is part of the effort to harmonize standards between electronic clinical quality measures and clinical decision support. CQL provides the ability to express logic that is human readable yet…
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(Last updated: Dec 04, 2025)
CQL is a Health Level Seven International® (HL7®) authoring language standard designed to be both human readable and machine-processable. It is part of the harmonization effort to align specification development for quality measures, including electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs), digital…
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(Last updated: Oct 02, 2025)
Get ConnectedVisit the CQL­ Formatting and Usage Wiki.The Wiki serves as a collaborative workspace for the development of CQL formatting conventions and usage patterns for the representation of logic within electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). All users have edit rights to submit…
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(Last updated: Dec 04, 2025)
CQL OverviewCQL 1.5 and Quality Data Model (QDM) v5.6 Overview Slides - September 2, 2021Teach Me CQL Video Series (Video shorts can be viewed in any order)Day of versus Date From and Timing Comparisons - YouTube Video Short - August 2024Fluent Functions - YouTube Video Short - July…
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(Last updated: Dec 04, 2025)
Explore these resources to get an overview of CQL­ and learn how to implement CQL from experts.Visit the CQL Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page to review common questions and answers.Visit the Connect tab to find out how to connect to various CQL resources and register for…
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(Last updated: Dec 04, 2025)
Latest VersionsThe CQL standards are located on the HL7 Website: CQL Specification.The latest version of CQL is v1.5.3: Current Official Published Version - Normative Release 1 (mixed Normative/Trial-use content), based on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® R4.Find the QDM…
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(Last updated: Apr 29, 2025)
A Clinical Quality Language (CQL) library is a container for artifact logic/expressions. A CQL library contains declarations which specify the items found in the library. Every electronic clinical quality measure has at least one CQL library. For more information, see the Quality Data Model (QDM)-…
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(Last updated: May 27, 2025)
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(Last updated: Jun 20, 2025)
A CQMCommonQDM Library (formerly known as Global Common Library) is a shared Quality Data Model (QDM) based-Clinical Quality Language (CQL) library which contains CQL expressions for all eCQM developers to use when specifying electronic clinical quality measures. The CQMCommonQDM Library…
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(Last updated: Mar 14, 2025)
Crucible is a suite of open-source testing tools for Health Level Seven International® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®). It helps the FHIR development community ensure correct FHIR implementations. Crucible can test for conformance to the FHIR standards, score patient records for…