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CQF Presents at AMIA Symposium November 16
Monday November 16, 2015 10:30am-12pm PT 
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, San Francisco, CA
Didactic Panel S25: The Clinical Quality Framework Initiative to Harmonize Decision Support and Quality Measurement Standards: Defined Standards, Pilot Results, and Moving Beyond Quality Improvement
K. Kawamoto, University of Utah; M. Hadley, MITRE Corporation; T. Oniki, Intermountain Healthcare; J. Skapik, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT 
The Clinical Quality Framework (CQF) is a public-private partnership sponsored by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to create a harmonized set of standards for clinical decision support (CDS) and electronic clinical quality measurement (eCQM). At AMIA 2014, experts presented preliminary results from the first year of this multi-year initiative. In this panel, CQF leaders will describe the standards developed, including the HL7 Clinical Quality Language standard for logical expression, the HL7 FHIR Quality Profiles for data exchange, the HL7 Quality Improvement and Clinical Knowledge model for logical inferencing, and several implementation guides leveraging these foundational standards. The panelists will then present findings from pilot deployments of the standards in various clinical domains ranging from cardiology to radiology, preventive care, infectious diseases, and oncology. The panelists will also describe partnerships with relevant initiatives beyond the quality domain, including the ONC Data Access Framework initiative, the Health Services Platform Consortium (HSPC), and the Clinical Information Modeling Initiative (CIMI). The slides are attached here.

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