Getting Started
A gentle introduction to understanding eCQI and this Resource Center
eCQMs
The who, what, when, where, and why of eCQMs
Education
A selection of educational materials and resources to broaden your eCQI knowledge
Latest News
Jan 23 2017
Health IT-Enabled Quality Measurement Strategic Implementation Guide
ONC’s State Innovation Model (SIM) Health IT Resource Center released the Health IT-Enabled Quality Measurement Strategic Implementation Guide to... Read more
Jan 18 2017
BONNIE Version 1.6.0 Release
Bonnie is a tool for testing electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) designed to support streamlined and efficient pre-testing of eCQMs, particularly those used in CMS quality incentive programs. This release adds the Measure History functionality. Measure History enables users to see how test case calculations change as the measure version changes. New capabilities that a user will see include:
- An upload summary after a new version of a measure has been uploaded. This will show how many test cases’ calculations changed and which... Read more
Jan 18 2017
QRDA eCQM Submission Customer Satisfaction Survey
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) would like to know more about your experience(s) submitting Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Category I files containing electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs). Whether your comments are in regards to submitting test or production files for the Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) Program, your feedback is very important to CMS to improve the process.
The survey is intended for hospital or vendor staff members responsible for submitting QRDA Category I files to CMS on the hospital’s behalf for quality reporting. Survey... Read more
Jan 17 2017
CMS announces eCQM Submission Deadline Extension to March 13, 2017, at 11:59 p.m. PT for CY 2016 Reporting and Intent to Modify 2017 eCQM Reporting Requirements under the IQR and EHR Incentive Programs for Hospitals
CY 2016 eCQM Reporting
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is notifying eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and/or the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs of a deadline extension. The extension is for the submission of electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) data for the Calendar Year (CY) 2016 reporting period, pertaining to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 payment determination. The deadline has been changed from Tuesday, February 28, 2017, to Monday,... Read more
Jan 06 2017
Now available: Updated electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) value sets for 2017 performance/reporting period
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) have published an addendum to the 2016 eCQM specifications (published in April 2016). This addendum updates relevant International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 Clinical Modification (CM) and Procedure Coding System (PCS) eCQM value sets for the 2017 performance year. These changes affect electronic reporting of eCQMs for the following programs:
- The Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program
- The Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for eligible... Read more
Jan 04 2017
CMS, AHRQ, and ONC Integrate eCQI Resource Center with USHIK
CMS, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and ONC have integrated the... Read more
Dec 29 2016
Now Available – Technical QRDA-III Instructions for CY 2017 Eligible Clinician Reporting Programs (Version 0.1)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published Version 0.1 of the 2017 CMS Implementation Guide for Quality Reporting Document Architecture Category III (QRDA-III) Eligible Clinician Programs with schematrons and sample files. As CMS continues to build the submission portal for eligible clinician reporting, ongoing testing and feedback from stakeholders is essential. As part of this process, we encourage our partners and stakeholders to utilize these tools and provide feedback on an ongoing basis. We have made the guide, schematrons and sample files available for a... Read more