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Welcome to the HL7 Clinical Quality Information Work Group Wiki

The Clinical Quality Information Work Group Mission:

The mission of the Clinical Quality Information Workgroup is to create and maintain information technology standards in support of improving health care quality, including clinical care, and to foster collaboration between quality measurement, outcomes and improvement stakeholders.

Co-chairs:

• Floyd Eisenberg
• Crystal Kallem
• Walter Suarez
• Patty Craig
• Chris Millet

Future Meetings:

Conference Calls
Fridays from 1:00 - 3:00 pm ET US
Dial in: 770-657-9270
Passcode: 217663
Webinar URL: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/join/129603349

Recurring Monthly Conference Call Topics
First Friday of each month - DSTU comments (if any)
Second Friday of each month - Industry updates

Face-to-Face Meetings
HL7 Annual Working Group Meetings
Oct 4-8, 2015
Atlanta, GA

Clinical Quality Information WGM Agendas
[Clinical Quality Information WG Minutes][1]

CQI Work Group Projects:

• Alignment of Health Quality Related Standards- based on discussions at the Sept. 2013 WGM with CDS and SDWG, new Project Scope Statements were identified to help move forward with aligning the health quality standards. The following are the links to the different project pages:
  • CQI Common Metadata
  • Harmonization of Health Quality Information models
  • Expression Logic Harmonization
  • Health Quality Measure Format (HQMF)

• Whitepaper: A Framework for Standards to Report Quality Measures
  • [Quality White Paper]
    • Next Meetings:
    • Tuesday 6/17 4pm ET
    • Fridays 6/27 - 8/1 10am ET
    • Webex webinar link: https://meetings.webex.com/collabs/#/meetings/detail?uuid=I93K0J2R1AXIISCLOATX8HBXTD-8ENJ&rnd=617349.56538
    • +1 770-657-9270 Passcode 217663

• FHIR eCQM Profile
  • This project is to define FHIR profiles for represent electronic clinical quality measures, requests for execution, and the measure reports themselves.
  • Project wiki page

• Measure Reports Profile
  • This project is to explore creating a FHIR Profile for representing measure reports.
  • project wiki page

• QRDA Category I, Release 3
  • The scope of this project is to create a new release of the Quality Reporting Document Architecture, Release 2, DSTU.
  • QRDA Category I, Release 3 Project Scope Statement]
  • QRDA Category I Project Wiki Page]
  • Project Meetings
    • Day: Weekly on Mondays from October 13 - December 8, 2014
      
    • Time: 4:00 pm ET US/3:00 CT/2:00 MT/1:00 PT
      
    • Phone: 1-770-657-9270
      
    • Participant code: 217663
      
    • Webinar registration URL: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/join/562214502
      

• QDM-based HQMF IG R1.1
  • QDM-based HQMF IG R1.1 Wiki Page

• Identifying use cases for Care Plans in Quality Measures

• Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Notice of Proposed Rule-making (NPRM) – Topics related to the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (HIQR) program.
  • PDF Download of the NPRM:
  • [IPPS comment spreadsheet]
  • [Comment review and submission from the HL7 Policy Advisory Committee]
  • Final HL7 public comment response - http://www.hl7.org/documentcenter/public/newsroom/HL7%20IPPS%20Comments%2006%2025%2013%20v2.pdf

• Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Notice of Proposed Rule-making (NPRM) - Topics related to Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting

• Physician Fee Schedule Notice of Proposed Rule-making (NPRM) - Topics related to Physician Office Quality Reporting
  • File:HL7 CQI Discussion on 2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule...docx
  • File:DRAFT CQIWG Comments-2014 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule08142013.docx
  • File:HL7 Comment Letter-2014 Physician Fee Schedule Final for Policy Committee Review.docx

• Composite Measurement Discussion - December 2013
  • File:Composite User Technical Specification PSI.pdf
  • File:Sepsis Bundle 0500 20121031.pdf
  • File:Composite Measure Discussion Points.docx

• Voluntary 2015 Edition Electronic Health Record (EHR) Certification Criteria (NPRM)
  • File:2015 voluntary CQI comments.docx
  • File:CQI comments v2.docx
  • File:CQI comments v3.docx
  • File:CQI comments final.docx

CQI Work Group Co-chair Assignments:

• DESD Vote Management
  • February 2015 - Crystal
  • March 2015 - Floyd
  • April 2015 - Walter
  • May 2015 - Chris
  • June 2015 - Patty
  • July 2015 - Crystal
  • August 2015 - Floyd
  • September 2015 - Walter