The Health Quality Measures Format (HQMF) is a standard for representing a health quality measure as an electronic document. A quality measure is a quantitative tool that provides an indication of an individual or organization's performance in relation to a specified process or outcome via the measurement of an action, process or outcome of clinical care. An HQMF document is a defined and complete information object that can exist outside of a messaging context and/or can be a payload within an HL7 Version 2 or Version 3 message. Thus, the HQMF complements HL7 messaging specifications.
status
ACTIVE
Fully-Specified Name
component
Health Quality Measure document
property
Find = Finding
time
Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
system
^Patient
scale
Doc = Document: A document that could be in many formats (XML, narrative, etc.)
method
Additional Names
short name
Document; Finding; Findings; HQM document; Pan; Panel; PANEL.DOC; Panl; Pnl; Point in time; Random