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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving steadily toward the use of FHIR-based digital quality measures (dQMs). CMS believes dQMs will enable a more dynamic, interoperable, and comprehensive approach to quality measurement than the electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) currently in use.
As it seeks public feedback on draft dQM packages, CMS officials held a webinar in January to explain the expected transition.
One of the webinar speakers was Joel Andress, the digital quality measurement lead at CMS, who heads up efforts to develop and implement a strategy to convert CMS quality measurement to a digital format. The goals are to reduce reporting burden for care providers and promote data interoperability.