Educational Resources*

MMS Tools, Resources & Videos

Interested Party Engagement

Digital Quality Measurement

  • U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and USCDI+ Quality What They Are and What’s Ahead slides / YouTube / Transcript - November 2023
  • Digital Quality Measures: Specifying the Future of Quality Measurement slides / YouTube - February 2023
  • CMS Public Webinar - Strategic Roadmap for Advancing Digital Quality Measurement slides / YouTube - August 2022

Electronic Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) 

Closing Gaps of Care

  • From Data to Action: How CMS and Stakeholders are Addressing Inequities in Healthcare slides / YouTube / Question & Answer Summary / Key Resources - February/March 2023
  • Gravity Project slides / YouTube - August 2022
  • CMS Public Webinar – Rural Health: How CMS Initiatives Improve the Way We Measure and Address Gaps in Care slides / YouTube - April 2022
  • A New Method to Improve Measurement of Race-and-Ethnicity in CMS Data and Applications to Inequalities in Quality of Care slides / YouTube - June 2021 
  • Transforming Measurement for Better Care: Lessons Learned About Patient-Centered Measurement slides / YouTube - February 2021

Measure Development and Maintenance: General Information

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Action: Generating Claims about Measure Properties slides / Transcript - April 2025
  • From Research to Reality: Translating Reliability and Validity Findings into Actionable Insights slides - October 2024
  • Get a Clue About CBE Measure Reviews: PRMR, MSR, & E&M slides / YouTube / Transcript- June 2024
  • Quality Counts, Safety Matters: Prioritizing Patient Safety Through Quality Measurement slides / YouTube / Q&A Summary - March 2024
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Quality Measurement slides / YouTube / Question & Answer Summary- February 2024
  • CMS Public Webinar - Advancing Excellence: CMS National Quality Strategy slides / YouTube - June 2023
  • Quality Measures in Action: How CMS Uses Quality Measures to Inform the Public and Drive Quality Improvement slides / YouTube - September 2022
  • iQuality Improvement & Innovation Group (iQIIG) slides / YouTube - September 2022
  • Meaningful Measures 2.0 and Cascade of Measures slides / YouTube - June 2022
  • When the Journey is the Destination: Tackling the Complexities Associated with Diagnostic Performance Measurement slides / YouTube - January 2022
  • Population Health Measures: What They Are and Why They Matter slides / YouTube - October 2021
  • Understanding Qualified Registries and QCDRs and their Role in MIPS slides / YouTube - April 2021*

Measure Lifecycle 

  • Measure Lifecycle: An Iterative and Interactive Approach to Measure Development slides / YouTube - November 2022
  • Overcoming Common Challenges in the Measure Development Lifecycle slides / YouTube - September 2021*

Measure Conceptualization

  • Measure Conceptualization: From Ideas to Action slides / YouTube - December 2022
  • Maximizing Efficiency of Information Gathering with the De Novo Measure Scan (DNMS) slides / YouTube - January 2021*

Measure Specification

  • What’s in a Name?: Terminology & Current Linguistic Trends in Measure Specification slides / YouTube - January 2023
  • Specifying Your Measure: How to Create Clear and Unambiguous Measure Specifications slides / YouTube - August 2021*

Measure Testing

  • Putting the Test in Measure Testing: Addressing a Collection of Measure Testing Challenges slides / YouTube - May 2023
  • Measure Testing Problems and Solutions slides / YouTube - July 2022

Measure Implementation 

  • Navigating Measure Implementation: Turning Data into Actionable Results slides - July 2023

Measure Use, Continuing Evaluation, and Maintenance

  • CMS Public Webinar: Driving Quality in the US: How CMS Evaluates its Measure Portfolio slides / YouTube - July 2021*

Patient-Reported Outcomes

  • From PROMs to PRO-PMs: Developing Patient-Reported Outcome Performance Measures (PRO-PMs) slides / YouTube - February 2022
  • PROs, PROMs, and PRO-PMs: Demystifying Terminology and Best Practices around Patient-Reported Data slides / YouTube - March 2021

Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration (C3) Forum Presentations

The C3 Forum is a quarterly meeting for Measure and Instrument Development Support (MIDS) contractors. Presentations relevant to a public audience are published here on the CMS MMS Hub. 

Quality Measures Technical Forum (QMTF) Presentations

QMTF is a monthly meeting for CMS staff to discuss and learn about current topics and emerging trends in quality measurement. 

*The information, e.g., hyperlinks, screenshots, points of contact, were current at the time of initial presentation/publication. Contact MMSSupport@battelle.org with any questions.

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