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
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Acronym | Definition/Description |
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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