Clinical Quality Language Specification
2.0.0-ballot - R2 STU 1 (Ballot)
Clinical Quality Language Specification
2.0.0-ballot - R2 STU 1 (Ballot)
Clinical Quality Language Specification, published by Clinical Decision Support WG. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2.0.0-ballot 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
| Page standards status: Informative | Maturity Level: N/A |
| 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