Health Quality Measure Format (HQMF) Reaffirmation Project

1a. Project Name Health Quality Measure Format (HQMF) Reaffirmation Project 1b. Project ID 1749 1c. Is Your Project an Investigative Project (aka PSS-Lite)? No 1d. Is your Project Artifact being Reaffirmed or proceeding to Normative directly after being either Informative or STU? Yes 1e. Today's Date Jan 20, 2022 1f. Name of standard being reaffirmed HL7 Version 3 Standard: Representation of the Health Quality Measure Format (eMeasure) Release 1 1g. Project Artifact Information A project artifact is balloting Normative (no STU) (this includes reaffirmations) 1h. ISO/IEC Standard to Adopt n/a 1i. Does the standard include excerpted text from one or more ISO, IEC or ISO/IEC standards, but is not an identical or modified adoption? No 1j. Unit of Measure N/A (no measurements are in the standard 2a. Primary/Sponsor WG Clinical Quality Information 2d. Project Facilitator Floyd Eisenberg 2e. Other Interested Parties (and roles) Bryn Rhodes (author) Juliet Rubini (author) Stan Rankins (author) 2f. Modeling Facilitator Bryn Rhodes 2g. Publishing Facilitator Stan Rankins 2h. Vocabulary Facilitator Rob McClure 2i. Domain Expert Representative Floyd Eisenberg 2j. Business Requirements Analyst Juliet Rubini 2k. Conformance Facilitator Yan Heras 2l. Other Facilitators 2m. Implementers CMS Measure developers (NCQA, The Joint Commission) Semantic Bits 3a. Project Scope No change in scope Attachments 3b. Project Need The CMS electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) program continues to use HQMF as the base standard for eCQM at least through 2024. 3c. Security Risk No 3d. External Drivers CMS programs 3e. Objectives/Deliverables and Target Dates Base standard for expressing a clinical quality measure. 3f. Common Names / Keywords / Aliases: HQMF 3g. Lineage 3h. Project Dependencies 3i. HL7-Managed Project Document Repository URL: NA 3j. Backwards Compatibility No 3k. Additional Backwards Compatibility Information (if applicable) 3l. Using Current V3 Data Types? Yes 3l. Reason for not using current V3 data types? 3m. External Vocabularies No 3n. List of Vocabularies 3o. Earliest prior release and/or version to which the compatibility applies 4a. Products V3 Documents - Knowledge 4b. For FHIR IGs and FHIR Profiles, what product version(s) will the profiles apply to? 4c. FHIR Profiles Version 4d. Please define your New Product Definition 4d. Please define your New Product Family 5a. Project Intent Reaffirmation of a standard 5a. White Paper Type 5a. Is the project adopting/endorsing an externally developed IG? 5a. Externally developed IG is to be (select one) 5a. Specify external organization 5a. Revising Current Standard Info 5b. Project Ballot Type Normative (no STU) 5c. Additional Ballot Info Reaffirmation 5d. Joint Copyright No 5e. I understand I must submit a Joint Copyright Letter of Agreement to the TSC in order for the PSS to receive TSC approval. no 6a. External Project Collaboration NA 6b. Content Already Developed 100% 6c. Content externally developed? No 6d. List Developers of Externally Developed Content 6e. Is this a hosted (externally funded) project? No 6f. Stakeholders Clinical and Public Health Laboratories, Quality Reporting Agencies, Regulatory Agency, Payors 6f. Other Stakeholders 6g. Vendors EHR, PHR, Clinical Decision Support Systems 6g. Other Vendors 6h. Providers Clinical and Public Health Laboratories, Local and State Departments of Health, Healthcare Institutions (hospitals, long term care, home care, mental health), Other 6h. Other Providers Regulatory agencies 6i. Realm Universal 7d. US Realm Approval Date 7a. Management Group(s) to Review PSS 7b. Sponsoring WG Approval Date Jan 20, 2022 7c. Co-Sponsor Approval Date 7c. Co-Sponsor 2 Approval Date 7c. Co-Sponsor 3 Approval Date 7c. Co-Sponsor 4 Approval Date 7c. Co-Sponsor 5 Approval Date 7c. Co-Sponsor 6 Approval Date 7c. Co-Sponsor 7 Approval Date 7c. Co-Sponsor 8 Approval Date 7c. Co-Sponsor 9 Approval Date 7c. Co-Sponsor 10 Approval Date 7e. CDA MG Approval Date 7f. FMG Approval Date 7g. V2 MG Approval Date 7h. Architecture Review Board Approval Date 7i. Steering Division Approval Date 7j. TSC Approval Date Jan 31, 2022