New S&I Initiative — Clinical Quality Framework
The Standards & Interoperability (S&I) Framework is a collaborative community of participants from the public and private sectors who are focused on providing the tools, services and guidance to facilitate the functional exchange of health information. The S&I Framework uses a set of integrated functions, processes, and tools that enable execution of specific value-creating initiatives.
The ONC and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced the launch of a new S&I Framework Initiative – Clinical Quality Framework. This initiative will address the need for harmonized standards for clinical decision support (CDS) and electronic clinical quality measurement (eCQM).
Kickoff for the Initiative
When: March 21, 2014, from 12–1 p.m. EDT
Register for this event.
Get more details on the conference call and futue meetings see the Clinical Quality Framework wiki page.
Join the Initiative
Interested parties are encouraged to participate in the initiative as either an Initiative Committed Member, or Other Interested Party. The success will rely on the participation of every type of indutry stakeholder including Health IT vendors, health systems, standards development organizations, patient advocates, and the general public.
Committed Member – A Committed Member is an organization or individual who has a particular interest in solving the Challenge Statement and reaching the Initiative Goal and commits to actively achieve the deliverables. The nature of the commitment will vary depending on the deliverables, but must be meaningful and relevant.
Other Interested Party – If you are unable to join as a fully committed participant or an invited expert, you may also join as an Other Interested Party. As an “Other Interested Party” you are invited to participate in discussions and can provide comments and feedback by joining the Wiki. However, only Committed Members have voting rights.
Challenge Statement
Clinical decision support (CDS) and electronic clinical quality measurement (eCQM) are closely related, share many common requirements, and are both in support of improving health care quality. However, the standards used for their electronic representation have not been developed in consideration of each other, and were essentially developed in silos. In particular, as noted , CDS and eCQM use different approaches to patient data and computable expression logic.