Cypress Tech Talk July 21 2015
- 1. © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Cypress Tech Talk July 21st, 2015
- 2. © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Agenda ■ This Week’s Cypress Release – Thursday July 24th – Cypress 2.6.1 – Cypress 2.7.0 – Cypress Validation Utility for 2016 Reporting ■ Cypress Demo Server 2
- 3. © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Cypress Tools Release in July 2015 ■ New Versions of the Cypress eCQM Testing Tool will be released on Thursday, July 23rd, 2015. – Cypress v2.7.0 – Pretesting Version Only – Cypress v2.6.1 Patch Release – Replacing v2.6.0 – Cypress Validation Utility for 2015 & 2016 Reporting 3
- 4. © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Cypress v2.6.1 Patch Release ■ Cypress 2.6.1 has been updated to include: – Additional Validation Checks – Minor User Interface updates – Updated installation procedures ■ Use Cypress v2.6.1 to pretest and certify 2014 Eligible Hospital and Eligible Professional eCQM packages ■ QRDA compliance evaluated against the HL7 QRDA Errata IG published in 2014 ■ Uses Measure Bundle v2.6.0 that was issued with the initial v2.6 release ■ Will replace v2.6.0 and continue to be available for use in certification throughout 2015 4
- 5. © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Cypress v2.7 Pretesting Version Only ■ Cypress v2.7.0, the newest version of the electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) testing tool. ■ Cypress v2.7 supports the following – Supports 2015 eCQM Annual Update – Aligns with the May 2015 release and the June corrections of Eligible Hospital and Eligible Professional eCQM specifications published by CMS – Aligns with HL7 QRDA Category I Release 3 specification – Uses Measure Bundle v2.7.0 ■ Is not initially available for certification because the 2014 Certification Edition only applies to the current HL7 QRDA R2 specification. This version is a tool for testing the 2015 measure specifications and the new QRDA R3 requirements for CMS submissions 5
- 6. © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Cypress Validation Utility for 2015 & 2016 Reporting ■ Separate and optional utility for testing QRDA conformance against the CMS QRDA Combined Implementation Guides (IGs) ■ Supports both the 2015 and 2016 CMS QRDA Combined IG specifications ■ Checks additional QRDA constraints required for CMS submission that are not tested with Cypress Certification which tests compliance to the base HL7 QRDA IG 6
- 7. © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Cypress Validation Utility for 2016 Reporting ■ Cypress Validation Utility for 2016 is planned for release July 23rd, 2015 ■ The Cypress Validation Utility will be updated to include the 2016 CMS Implementation Guide and Schematron ■ Will still be hosted at https://validator.projectcypress.org 7
- 8. © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Cypress Demo Server ■ Cypress Demo Server will be updated to Cypress 2.6.1 – https://demo.projectcypress.org ■ Cypress 2.6.1 will be enforcing stronger passwords – As a result, all current user accounts will be removed on Saturday (during the scheduled server refresh) 8
- 9. © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. OPEN DISCUSSION 9
- 10. © 2013 The MITRE Corporation. All rights Reserved. Next Cypress Tech Talk ■ Tuesday August 4th at 1pm EST ■ Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/432015307270123 5201 ■ Completed Webinars will be posted on the Cypress Website on the Timeline Tab. – http://projectcypress.org/timeline.html ■ Send questions and feedback to the Cypress Talk List as talk@projectcypress.org 10