Meaningful Use Stage 2

What is Cypress?

Cypress v2.0 is the rigorous and repeatable testing tool of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and EHR modules in calculating Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs). The Cypress tool is open source and freely available for use or adoption by the health IT community including EHR vendors and testing labs. Cypress v2.0 serves as the official testing tool for the 2014 EHR Certification program supported by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

Objective

The objective of Cypress is to enable repeatable and rigorous testing of an EHR's ability to accurately calculate Meaningful Use Stage 2 Eligible Provider (EP) and Eligible Hospital (EH) Clinical Quality Measures. Cypress has been recognized by ONC as the official CQM testing tool for operational use in Meaningful Use Clinical Quality Measure certification.

Events/Milestones

12/14/2012

MU Stage 2 Certification of e-Quality Measures Update

12/21/2012

Cypress v2.0 Release MU Stage 2 EP/EH Testing

02/28/2013

Cypress v2.1 - Minor Release for Updated 2012 Reporting Period and QRDA XML Bug Fixes

03/04/2013

HIMSS 2013 Cypress and VSAC Discussion in Conference Room #213

04/26/2013

Cypress v2.2 - Minor Release Dynamic support for Continuous Variable CQM testing