success 127900 hqmf 2009-01-04T09:09:11Z 2009-08-22T07:58:34Z The Health Quality Measures Format was initially a product of "The Collaborative for Performance Measure Integration with EHR Systems." In Spring 2009, The National Quality Forum (NQF) funded an initiative to take the prototype HQMF XML format - and align it with constructs previously defined by HL7 - including the Reference Information Model (RIM). Documentation for this effort is available here. The Collaborative for Performance Measure Integration with EHR Systems (“Collaborative”), co-sponsored by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and Electronic Heath Record Association (EHRA) is a group of stakeholders in the physician performance measurement and quality improvement arena who have a shared goal to provide the industry with workable recommendations for performance measure use. The Collaborative’s goals are: 1. To create a standardized way of communicating Performance Measures. 2. To establish standards that permit structured, encoded Performance Measure information to be incorporated into EHR applications while preserving the clinical intent of the Performance Measure. 3. To improve the process of Performance Measure update and maintenance for EHR vendors. http://code.google.com/p/hqmf hqmf 0 0 mit MIT License