Clinical Quality Language
An HL7 standard and tooling for expressing clinical knowledge in Clinical Decision Support (CDS) and Clinical Quality Measurement (CQM).
What is Clinical Quality Language?
Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is an HL7 standard for expressing clinical knowledge in a computable format, used primarily in Clinical Decision Support (CDS) and Clinical Quality Measurement (CQM). It provides a standardized way to define clinical logic, enabling interoperability and consistent implementation across healthcare systems. The project includes tooling like a CQL compiler and ELM runtime to support the specification's adoption.
Healthcare IT developers, EHR vendors, clinical knowledge content vendors, and clinical quality content tool vendors who need to implement or work with the CQL standard for clinical decision support and quality measurement.
Developers choose CQL tooling because it offers a reference implementation aligned with the HL7 standard, ensuring syntactic and semantic validation for clinical logic. Its community-driven approach and production-quality Java tools provide reliable support for interoperability in healthcare systems.
Overview
Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is an HL7 specification for the expression of clinical knowledge that can be used within both the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) and Clinical Quality Measurement (CQM) domains. This repository contains complementary tooling in support of that specification.
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