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Joint Commission debuts hospital clinical quality metrics platform

The platform will make clinical quality language-based eCQMs available to providers in an execution environment where they can generate and use the results continuously.

The Joint Commission partnered with digital healthcare provider Apervita to provide the cloud platform underpinning this program by enabling providers to specify, develop, test, and execute eCQMs, as well as create and distribute applications that use them, in the cloud at scale.

Apervita is used by approximately 1,000 hospitals nationwide and helps health systems with streamlining, standardizing and auditing quality measures, operational metrics and care pathways.

The clinical quality language (CQL) standard for measures is used by The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for 2019 eCQM reporting, and endorsed by HL7 International.

The language brings together the underlying logic of quality measurement, clinical pathways, clinical decision support and more with DDSP, the Joint Commission can now use a single environment to specify, develop, test, and distribute CQL measures for use.

What is the importance of this current event?

Answer 1

CQL is Clinical Quality Language. In this era of Evidence Based Practice and Clinical pathway, CQL is a language in which the a common language will be utilized by all the hospital world wide with to view to improve clinical quality and clinical decision making ability of all hospitals world wide. CQL serves benefit in the following forms:

1. Time and money saver: this language makes the data easily accessible to all hospitals world wide due to which time and money are saved to a great extend. This language can be utilised by any hospital, any time, any where.

2. Scrutinizer for quality improvement: this language is easy and helps to update the whole data which contributes immensely to better clinical quality and promises good performance.

3. Variabillty is minimised : CQL gives an oppuopportunity to easily share CQL measures, avoid duplication and repeatation of implementation

4. Clinical variation will be minimized: it helps In uniform application of careplans and clinical pathway.

5. Easy transition between hospital- due to its uniformity and world wide application, it's easy for transition from one hospital to another.

6. Helps to amalgamate all data together which together can give a Quality efficient decision making