eMeasures: a standard format for health quality measures.

Health quality measures can be used to improve the effective use of Electronic Health Record systems (EHRs) in health care delivery. The Health Quality Measures Format (HQMF) is a standard for representing a health quality measure as an electronic document. This presentation will present the standard, review the development process of quality measures for EHR system using HL7 CDA R2, and reflect on the outlook for eMeasures implementation and adoption.