Cypress v2.5 Released

[Colbert, Jean D.]

Cypress v2.5 is now available for testing the April 2014 updates to the Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 Eligible Hospital Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) and the July 2014 updates to the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Eligible Professional CQMs. The new v2.5 release, v2.5 measure bundle, and release notes are available on the Cypress website (http://projectcypress.org/).

 

New Features for Cypress V2.5 Release

·         Support for the annual 2014 Eligible Hospital and Eligible Professional Clinical Quality Measure Update:

Cypress v2.5 includes the updated specifications introduced for Eligible Hospital Measures in April 2014 and Eligible Professional Measures in July 2014 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

 

·         Cypress V2.5 Measure Bundle

Cypress v2.5 will provide support for the 2014 Annual Measure Updates only. Measure Bundle v2.5 includes the updated measures for both the Eligible Hospital CQMs and the Eligible Professional CQMs, along with an updated set of synthetic test patient records to test the updated measure set. Measure Bundle v2.5 will be the only option available to the Cypress user for testing.

·         JIRA Issues to be addressed in v2.5 release:

–      Test Deck

·         # 196: CMS 128v1 – Additional information needed to perform CMD calculation

·         # 231: CMS2 v1 – Dx of depression should be on a different date than depression screening

·         # 243: CMS 147v1 – Change test deck from 1/1/12 to 1/2/12

·         # 248: CMS 52v1 – Ensure units of measure are identical (mm3 vs. /mm3)

·         # 275: CMS 146v1 – Change from patient based measure to episode based measure

·         # 303: CMS 169v1 –  ICD10, ICD9 and SNOMED codes for pregnancy should be allowed

·         # 340: Use of inactive RxNorm code

–      Cypress

·         # 331:  Median Value calculation (also #367, #395)

 

Support for Cypress V2.4.1 Continues for Certifying 2013 CQMs

Vendors will continue to use Cypress v2.4.1 to a time no later than January 1, 2015, in order to provide them ample time to complete product certification for 2013 measures. Additional information will be provided in the future regarding the extension of that timeline. Authorized Testing Labs (ATLs) will continue to schedule certification testing for 2013 measures using Cypress v2.4.1 during this time. The MITRE Cypress team will continue to provide answers to questions about the operation and use of Cypress 2.4.1 through the Cypress Talk List and Cypress Jira Tracker. At this time, there are no plans to make bug fixes or enhancements to Cypress v2.4.1.

Future Support in December 2014 with Cypress V2.5.1 Point Release

·         Upgrade to the “soon to be released” HL7 Quality Reporting Data Standards (QRDA) Errata Implementation Guide (IG) for 2014 from the previous HL7 Base QRDA IG from July 2012.

·         Optional Validation Utility for vendors to check compliance of QRDA documents for the CMS 2015 Combined QRDA Implementation Guide.

Cypress is sponsored by the CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and has been developed by MITRE.

 

Please send any feedback to ta...@projectcypress.org. Thank you.