INSTRUCTOR
Bryn Rhodes:
- Co-author/co-editor of various specifications including Clinical Quality Language, FHIRPath, and FHIR Clinical Reasoning
- Software Developer, 25+ years
- Consulting, 15+ years
- Particular interest in data management systems and languages
- Around 2010, worked with a team building real-time decision support services for a major EHR vendor
- Began working with Health IT standards in 2012
- Director of Standards Strategy, Smile Digital Health (Alphora)
Course Overview
Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is an HL7 authoring language standard that's intended to be human readable. It is part of the effort to harmonize standards used for electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) and clinical decision support (CDS).Participants will learn about the general architecture of CQL and how it can be used with other data models such as HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR®) and Quality Data Model (QDM). The class includes exercises and applied tutorials so attendees will gain hands-on experience both with building CQL logic and using the authoring tools available.
Target Audience
- Clinical informaticists
- Clinical domain experts
- Quality measurement and decision support content authors
- Anyone who is interested in exploring the various architectural options available to FHIR based interoperability solutions
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the general importance and architecture of CQL
- Learn basic CQL operators
- Demonstrate how CQL allows calculation of measures and scoring
- Understand how CQL can be used with multiple data models including FHIR and Quality Data Model (QDM)
- Practice building some CQL clauses and libraries
- Identify the current tools and programs using CQL and consider the potential applications