HIV electronic clinical quality measures (eCQM) may be adopted by any provider, organization, or facility. These measures developed and tested by HRSA.
"An electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) is a clinical quality measure that is expressed and formatted to use data from electronic health records (EHR) and/or health information technology systems to measure healthcare quality, specifically data captured in structured form during the process of patient care. So they can be reported from an EHR, the Health Quality Measure Format (HQMF) is used to format the eCQM content using the Quality Data Model (QDM) to define the data elements and Clinical Quality Language (CQL) to express the logic needed to evaluate a provider or organization’s performance." -- eCQI Resource Center
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed HIV Medical Visit Frequency, HIV Viral Load Suppression, and Prescription of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy as paper measures and eCQMs (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid recommends that eCQMs are endorsed by a national organization).
HRSA eCQMs
The HRSA eCQMs are (National Quality Forum number):
- HIV Medical Visit Frequency (2079/3209)
- Gap in HIV Medical Visits (2080)
- HIV Viral Load Suppression (2082/3210)
- Prescription of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy (2083/3211)
For each of the HRSA HIV eCQMs, you can access the human readable format (html), eMeasure XML, simple XML, and value set as well as the files submitted to NQF when seeking endorsement.
Please direct questions related to the HRSA HIV eCQMS and NQF endorsement to Marlene Matosky.