CMS Releases Informational Bulletin Regarding Health Care Quality Measures and the Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management Tool

January 4, 2012
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released an informational bulletin with updates on the publication of the initial core set of adult health care quality measures, and the availability of CMS' Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management Tool (CALT).

The final notice of the initial core set of health care quality measures for Medicaid-eligible adults was published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, January 4. The notice is available here.

The Collaborative Application Lifecycle Managment Tool (CALT), the Application Lifecycle Managment (ALM) platform environment is now available to state Medicaid agencies. The CALT is a collaborative tool that creates a centralized repository for storing, collaborating on and sharing deliverables and artifacts from IT projects in support of Medicaid administration and establishment of Exchanges.

More information about CALT is available here.

The informational bulletin can be read in full here.