Clinical Quality Language Specification
1.5.3 - Release 1 Errata 2

Clinical Quality Language Specification, published by Clinical Decision Support WG. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 1.5.3 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/HL7/cql/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

Appendix E - Acronyms

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Acronym Definition/Description
AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
ANTLR4 ANother Tool for Language Recognition (version 4)
CDA Clinical Document Architecture
CDS Clinical Decision Support
CDSC L3 Clinical Decision Support Consortium Level 3
CDS KAS Clinical Decision Support Knowledge Artifact Specification
CMS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CPT Current Procedural Terminology
CQL Clinical Quality Language
CQM Clinical Quality Measure
CREF Allscripts Common Rule Engine Format (CREF) specification
CTS2 Common Terminology Services 2
DAM Domain Analysis Model
DSTU Draft Standard for Trial Use
eCQI Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement
eCQM Electronic Clinical Quality Measure
EHR Electronic Health Record
ELM Expression Logical Model
EMR Electronic Medical Record
eRecs AHRQ Electronic Recommendations
FHIR Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
GEM Guidelines Element Model
HeD Health eDecisions
HIE Health Information Exchange
HIT Health Information Technology
HITECH Act Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HITSP Health Information Technology Standards Panel
HL7 Health Level 7
HQMF Health Quality Measure Format
ICD-9-CM International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision
ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision
IHTSDO International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization
ISO International Organization for Standardization
LOINC Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes
MAT Measure Authoring Tool
NCQA National Committee for Quality Assurance
NQF National Quality Foundation
OID Object Identifier
ONC Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
PHR Personal Health Record
QDM Quality Data Model
QRDA Quality Reporting Document Architecture
QUICK Quality Improvement and Clinical Knowledge
RIM Reference Information Model
SI International System of Units
SNOMED-CT Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms
SQL Structured Query Language
UCUM Unified Code for Units of Measure
UML Unified Modeling Language
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
URN Uniform Resource Name
USHIK United States Health Information Knowledgebase
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
VSAC Value Set Authority Center
XMI XML Metadata Interchange
XML eXtended Markup Language

Table 12‑A - Acronyms used in this specification