Measure alignment includes using the same quality measures and value sets across settings and within multiple programs when possible. Alignment is achieved when a set of measures works well across settings or programs to produce meaningful information without creating extra work for those responsible for the measurement.

Bonnie is a software tool for testing electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs). This tool is designed for use by measure developers as part of their development process and validates that the eCQM logic matches the measure’s intent. Bonnie uses patient scenarios to represent each logic component of the measure specification such as the initial [..]

Health information technology functionality that builds upon the foundation of an electronic health record (EHR) to provide persons involved in care processes with general and person-specific information, intelligently filtered and organized, at appropriate times, to enhance health and health care.

Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is an HL7 draft standard for trial use (DSTU). It is part of the effort to harmonize standards between electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) and clinical decision support (CDS). CQL provides the ability to express logic that is human readable yet structured enough for processing a query electronically. In the [..]

A mechanism used for assessing the degree to which a provider competently and safely delivers clinical services that are appropriate for the patient in an optimal time frame. CQMs are a subset of the broader category of performance measures.

A code system is a managed collection of concepts with each concept represented by at least one internally unique code and a human readable description, e.g., SNOMED CT.

A combination of two or more component measures, each of which individually reflects quality of care, into a single performance measure with a single score. Also called composite measures.

A measure score in which each individual value for the measure can fall anywhere along a continuous scale, and can be aggregated using a variety of methods such as the calculation of a mean or median (for example, mean number of minutes between presentation of chest pain to the time of administration of thrombolytics).

Cypress is the rigorous and repeatable testing tool of electronic health records (EHRs) and EHR modules The Cypress tool is open source and freely available for use or adoption by the health information technology community including EHR vendors and testing labs.

The lower part of a fraction used to calculate a rate, proportion, or ratio. It can be the same as the initial population or a subset of the initial population to further constrain the population for the purpose of the measure. Different measures within an electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) set may have different denominators. Continuous va [..]