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Cypress Tech Talk
January 19th, 2016

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Agenda
■ Cypress v2 ConOps
■ Major additions to the 2015 Certification Rule
■ Resulting v3 ConOps
■ Other planned Cypress v3 features
■ Cypress Versions
■ Open Discussion
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Cypress v2 ConOps
■ C1
– Tests on a per measure basis
– Data allowed from any selected measure
■ C2
– Testing across all selected measures
■ C3
– Testing baked into C1/C2 tests

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Additions made in 2015 Certification
Rule
■ Increased Test Rigor
■ Optional Certification
– Data Filtering
■ Automated Import/Export of QRDA Cat I

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Import and Export of QRDA Data
■ “…Require that a system user be able to import CQM data
formatted to the QRDA standard for one or multiple patients
at any time the user chooses and without additional
assistance to operate.”
■ “…Require that a system user be able to export CQM data
formatted to the Quality Reporting Document Architecture
(QRDA) Category I standard at any time the user chooses
for one or multiple patients and without subsequent
developer assistance to operate.”

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Manual Entry
■ Still need to test entry of data elements for C1
■ Small subset of overall data elements
■ Test entry of uncommon data elements
– Elements that cannot be mapped to CCDA
– Elements that rarely appear in the wild
■ No test patients supplied. Vendor tested only on codes and
metadata for data criteria

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Single Measure Tests
■ Used for C1, C2, and C3 certification
■ Document Duplication
– Future releases may increase complexity of duplication
algorithm
■ Additional validations based on common submission
requirements
■ Program specific submission errors displayed as warnings

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Single Measure Testing

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C4: Data Filter
■ Filter Capabilities:
– Supplemental Data
■ Race
■ Ethnicity
■ Gender
■ Payer
– Problem List
– Provider
■ NPI
■ TIN
■ Practice Site

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Testing C4 in Cypress v3 c4
■ Uses patient population from a
single measure
■ Combination demographic filters
– “All African-American Males”
– “All Hispanics over the age of
65”
– “All Medicaid patients over the
age of 18”
■ Problem List
– All patients that have a
SNOMED code from a
specified value set
■ Provider
– All patients that visited a
specific provider, using a
specific TIN at a single
address

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Other Cypress v3 Planned Features
■ Roles and permissions system
– Allows ATLs to offer public Cypress instance with certification
data available to vendors
■ Cypress Administration Dashboard
– Monitor status of test creation / calculation
– Manage installed Cypress bundles
– Manage users and access
■ Responsive UI
– Works with displays from tablet to 4K
– 508 Compliant
■ Cypress Submission Toolbox
– Features from Cypress Validation Utility built into Cypress v3

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Available Cypress Versions
Cypress
Version
eCQM Version QRDA
Implementatio
n Guide
Cypress 2.7.0 2015 EP + EH DSTU R3
(2015)
Cypress 2.6.1 2014 EP + EH DSTU Errata
(2014)
Bolded versions
available for
certification

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OPEN DISCUSSION
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Next Cypress Tech Talk
■ Tuesday February 2nd at 1pm EST
■ Register at
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/432015307270123
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■ 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
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