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CQL Essentials Program: The Foundation to Operationalize Clinical Intelligence


Build expertise in CQL to enhance healthcare quality and interoperability

Overview

Master foundational and applied skills to integrate CQL into your organization’s quality and interoperability initiatives. You’ll gain skills to:

  • Implement Clinical Quality Measures (eCQMs) and Clinical Decision Support (CDS)
  • Elevate data interoperability across diverse health systems
  • Confidently work with syntax, queries, and terminology
  • Apply CQL in real-world healthcare initiatives for quality and decision-making
  • Leverage authoring tools and resources to validate and scale your work

Program investment:  US $500 

 

 

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CQL Essentials: Real-word Future-Ready Skills for Intelligent Healthcare

CQL is a language that allows clinical logic to be written once and reused across multiple systems and use cases, such as PriorAuth, quality measures, clinical decision rules, and medical policies. While not currently mandated by CMS, CQL is widely recommended in Da Vinci Implementation Guides for several use-cases and its adoption is growing. 

By combining the data structure of FHIR with the clinical logic expression capabilities of CQL, healthcare organizations can finally begin to scale clinical intelligence. These innovative organizations are effectively managing modernization efforts, and gaining an edge in quality measurement, clinical decision support, and interoperability.

Smile’s CQL Essentials course takes you step-by-step through both foundational and advanced concepts, equipping healthcare and IT professionals to confidently apply CQL in real-world scenarios.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM

CQL Essentials Course Modules
  • Overview & Background - Introduction to the Clinical Quality Framework and CQL’s role in eCQM & CDS
  • Tools & Resources - Explore authoring and validation tools for CQL
  • Syntax & Semantics - Build a foundation in types, operators, and intervals
  • Terminology - Work with libraries, models, and data access
  • Queries - Develop complex queries for advanced applications
  • Patterns & Decision Support - Apply CQL with FHIR to support clinical workflows and decision support
  • Quality Measurement & Clinical Guide - Lean how CQL powers quality improvement and guideline development within the Quality Lifecycle
Who Should Enroll
  • Healthcare IT professionals
  • Clinical informaticists
  • Quality improvement specialists
  • Developers working with FHIR and healthcare standards
  • Anyone looking to strengthen their role in digital quality and decision support
What To Expect
  • 7 on-demand modules (15–60 minutes each)
  • Practical activities to test experience with CQL queries
  • Comprehensive coverage from basics to advanced use cases
  • Hands-on resources and tools to practice authoring
  • Practical application in decision-making and measurement
  • Q&A support with Smile FHIR experts
Got training questions? Email us at training@smiledigitalhealth.com

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WHY CHOOSE SMILE?

When you learn with Smile, you’re learning from the real-world implementation experts who are shaping and advancing interoperability standards in healthcare.
Smile Digital Health are the maintainers of HAPI FHIR and CQF (Clinical Quality Framework) Ruler. Smile’s team of over 20 developers and industry-leaders actively lead and participate in 30+ Implementation Guide (IG) Working Groups including CARIN IG and Da Vinci, in addition to: CQL, IPS, SMART on FHIR, FAST, C-CDA, and FHIRBall. 

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