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Established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), QualityNet (also referred to as the QualityNet Portal (QNP)) provides healthcare quality improvement news, resources and data reporting tools and applications used by healthcare providers, hospitals, physician offices,  and others for various Lines of Business (LOBs). Among the information that can be found on the QualityNet Portal are  measures specifications and definitions,  reporting requirements, and program specifications. There are also helpful resources such as reporting dates, webinars, and resources.

All the CMS quality program information provided on QualityNet is organized by provider type into six broad categories of care or healthcare communities: Inpatient Hospitals, Outpatient Hospitals, Prospective Payment System (PPS) Exempt Cancer Hospitals, Ambulatory Surgical Centers, End-Stage Renal Disease Facilities, and Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities.



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This will include links to the user resources for QNP including a Tip Sheet

Headless Content Management System


ESS implemented the Multi-tenancy Feature for the Headless Content Management System (H-CMS).  This feature enables ADOs to integrate with H-CMS as part of their own work effort (to create their own Programs, metadata, etc.) if they have a need for a content management system. 

H-CMS was first released in May 2019 and is now available for integration – please reach out to the ESS PM3 representative (Chris Harrison) for any questions regarding H-CMS integration or for a demo please reach out to ESS_ADO_Support@ventera.com.


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FAQs



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title1) What is the URL to access QualityNet?

www.qualitynet.cms.gov


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title2) Are there any security requirements around accessing QualityNet?

No, it is a public site and does not require any security credentials to access.


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title3) What is the process for uploading updated or new materials to the QualityNet.org site?

Submitters should open a ticket with the QualityNet Service Desk, attaching any relevant documents. See QualityNet Content Submission for a description of the process.


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title4) What is the retention policy for content on the QualityNet site?

The Information Systems Group (ISG) of CMS has directed that content be retained on the QualityNet website for seven years.




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QNP is currently following a 2 week release cadence schedule. Please see below for details about each release.

Release Date

Release Version

Description

5/30/2019HCMS 1.0Initial release of H-CMS
8/19/2019HCMS 1.12nd release of H-CMS
9/25/2019QNP 2.0MVP Release of QNP 2.0

10.08/2019 

QNP 2.0.1Searching with paranthesis; 404 error; Large payloads & content history; Admin UI login page in IE

10/22/2019

QNP 2.0.2Update Q&A tool urls; Debug Listserve in prod; Remove published status from dropdown options
11/05/2019QNP 2.1.0NGINX error logging; Edit/update file functionality; Large download files to indicate download status
11/19/2019QNP 2.1.1Token refresh; Update navigation with 'RP' for HAC; Fix preview link in content associated pages
12/04/2019QNP 2.1.2Allow preview of nonpublished page and nonpublished content; Show all pages a file lives on under Associated Pages
12/20/2019QNP 2.1.3QNP admin caching function change; Payload issue
1/14/2020QNP 2.1.4Deployed updated Q&A Tool urls; Multitenancy- Modify AWS lambda function; Scheduling-publish- design
1/28/2020QNP 2.2.0Multitenancy- Database updates, creating data services, etc.
2/12/2020QNP 2.2.1Remediate Sonar findings; Angular UI upgrade
2/25/2020QNP 2.2.2Sonar and 508 defect remediation; Angular UI upgrade for Admin UI; Scheduling publish feature
3/24/2020QNP 2.2.3Sonar Quality Metrics, 508 Defect Resolution, H-CMS program by ID/role; Archiving enhancement
4/7/2020QNP 2.2.4Sonar Quality Metrics, 508 defects for admin UI, Defect resolution
4/21/2020QNP 2.2.5508 Defect Resolution for Admin UI.
5/05/2020QNP 2.2.6Update calendar date picker to be 508 compliant in all browsers
5/12/2020QNP 2.2.6.1PROD 2 Cutover
5/19/2020QNP 2.2.7Q&A Tool updates, Dashes defect, AMI Updates, Confirm pop up to publish button in QNP Admin UI


PI 11 Production Releases
6/17/2020QNP 3.0.0QualityNet Mailer
6/23/2020QNP 3.0.1QualityNet Mailer public UI was updated with new HSAG email address
6/30/2020QNP 3.1.0QualityNet Mailer enhancements of the public subscription page
7/2/2020QNP 3.1.1QualityNet Mailer enhancement so List Admin's email address is masked when sending notifications
7/14/2020QNP 3.2.0List admin role enhancement (only able to view lists assigned to their program); List Admin role can accept or reject multiple Subscriber list requests for private lists simultaneously; Flag will be sent to remove sender email address from the To/From fields replacing with the notification list email address; 508 defect resolution for QualityNet Mailer public and Admin UI.
7/28/2020QNP 3.3.0Sonar Quality Metrics updates. QualityNet Mailer validation messages. QualityNet Mailer template updates. QNP/QualityNet Mailer public search defect resolution. QualityNet Mailer Admin UI Search enhancement.
8/11/2020QNP 3.4.0QNP Admin. UI Publish Defect resolution- resolved content size limitation issue.


PI 12 Production Releases
8/27/2020QNP 3.4.1AMI upgrade.
9/8/2020QNP 3.5.0

1) Resolve QNP and Mailer related defects: 2376, 2370, 2453 for Edit refresh, list member removal, and list indentation on public site. 2) Mailer List Migrations: perform list migrations to Prod throughout PI12.1 based on the Kanban board entries within the ESS Mailman (EM) Jira Board. 3) MongoDB and Postgres password updates. 4) Angular 9 upgrade: upgrade to Angular 9 and associated dependencies.


9/17/2020QNP 3.5.1List Migration/Onboarding: QNet Notify, QualityNet Analytics, and CART lists were added to Mailer.
9/22/2020QNP 3.6.0Mailer usage metrics enhancement (displays successful send and bounce email metrics); implementation of Mailer exporting feature to allow subscribers to create a .csv file; addressed Okta login/timeout for Mailer; and addressed Mailer Admin UI timeout.
10/1/2020QNP 3.6.1Configuration changes needed for the QualityNet Analytics list.
10/6/2020QNP 3.7.0Added the ability for subscriber to engage in 2 way discussion activity for a discussion list; MongoDB and Postgres password updates; cleanup work performed on the CSS for QNP admin UI and HCMS; Burp Suite remediation.
10/8/2020QNP 3.7.1Added the QIONet lists for QMARS, FIVS, and DAART to the Mailer and bulk updated the QualityNet Analytics List with an additional 988 Subscribers.
10/20/2020QNP 3.8.0Test coverage: implemented test coverage services in ess-hcms-public-ui as part of quality metrics and improvement; Defect resolution with HCMS: implement fix for the session expiration token, which was not updating after confirming the extension; Defect resolution with QNP Admin Token: the token is not changing when the user is located on the Mailing List Details page; and Mailer: enhance the Mailer Admin UI with static text to clarify that UX may be impacted within the Admin UI when using IE.
10/28/2020QNP 3.8.1

Added the HCAHPS notification list to mailer which included the bulk uploading of 15, 501 subscribers.


11/3/2020QNP 3.9.0

-Resolved multiple 508 accessibility findings.

-Set up New Relic alerts for hcms-data & hcms-content-type API.

-Added units test for 80-100% code coverage for MailingListsService.

-Added units test for 80-100% code coverage for ContentDashboardService & ContentService.

-Mailer Timezone resolution: to display date, AM/PM, specific to timezone of logged in user within the Mailer Admin UI.

11/15/2020QNP 3.9.1Completed migration of all 10 HSAG  (9 notification and 1 discussion) lists from Lyris to QualityNet Mailer.


PI 13 Production Releases
11/17/2020QNP 4.0.0

-Migration of .org to .gov for QNP and HCMS Production environment

-AMI upgrades

11/25/2020QNP 4.0.1Updates for Acute Hospitals Care at Home.
12/01/2020QNP 4.1.0

AMI upgrades

MongoDB and Postgres password updates.

12/09/2020QNP 4.1.1

Updates for  for AHCAH :

-Waiver Request Submission form failure message update

-Waiver request text updates

-Tier 2 "none" selection fix.

12/15/2020QNP 4.2.0

-Revise QSP link on QNP homepage to redirect to Confluence page

-Update QNP footer from Qualitynet.org

-AMI upgrades

12/30/2020QNP 4.3.0AHCAH functionality for measures collections, submission, and reporting;  AMI upgrades
1/12/2021QNP 4.4.0

-AHCAH Addition of 'Attesting Title' field to capture the job title of the person doing the attesting.

Addition of a new help language at beginning of report measures page - Further, if your hospital/CCN did not discharge any patients this reporting period, please enter "0" when asked about volume and skip question #5.

-Fix typo in Validation Error message for missing MBI data.

-Fix Exim communication with Core

-Update public QNP navigation to point to the new Getting Started content, so that it is up to date with recent changes.

1/26/2021QNP 4.5.0

-AHCAH – on the Waiver and Measures pages, the forms have been updated so that they retain user entry before submission. 

-AHCAH – we updated and improved the system error message responses when users enter name, email, number validations that are not correct.

-AHCAH – on the Jira side, there is a new Hospital status that can be set called “IJ Review”. While this status should appear to Jira users, the AHCAH page visible to the Hospitals on QNP will still retain a status = “In Progress” even if “IJ Review” status is set in Jira.

-Changed subject line on emails to distinguish Tier 1 and Tier 2 for Outlook rule. 

-The "AHCAH Waiver Approval Date" field will provide quick at-a-glance data on when a Waiver was approved.

-QualityNet Mailer – Updated help text on the public QNP Mailer page, so subscribers have more visible instructions to whitelist the domain if not receiving emails.

-MongoDB and Postgres password updates for 60 day compliance.

-QNP Mongo DB Upgrade to version 4.4.

-AMI upgrade.



PI 14 Production Releases

QNP 4.6.0

-AHCAH – Added filter question to the AHCAH reporting measures form, so that the UI is simplified for submitters with 0 discharges.

-Mailer – resolved issue with List Administrators unable to search members with upper case letter in search criteria

-Mailer – implemented  content updates to the automated QualityNet Mailer templates for improved user experience (e.g. added information about whitelisting mailer domains, improved directions for confirming email address when subscribing).

-Standard bi-weekly AMI upgrade

2/19/2021QNP 4.6.1Used to bring up all six nginx containers
2/23/2021QNP 4.7.0

-AHCAH – “Other” Title value is not retaining after page refresh on Waiver

-AHCAH – Question 5 File info is not retaining after page refresh on Measures

-AHCAH – reCAPTCHA and validation error messages not clearing after Measure Submission scenario

-Mailer – implemented content updates to the automated QualityNet Mailer templates for improved user experience along with Help Desk email address

-Mailer – updated Prod Mailer lists email address "From" name to display a shortened list descriptor name instead of the elongated description 

-Bi-weekly AMI upgrade (note: due to some issues with AWS moving slowly, we manually brought up Mailman core; we still need to apply AMI updates for Mailman, which will be completed Wed evening)

3/10/2021QNP 4.8.0

-Mailer – modify language to provide more specific language/content for clarity on the “disabled due to email bounces” Mailer template

-Mailer (QNP) –  Update Language on listserv-success page when user signs up for a list to reiterate instructions for whitelisting the Mailer demo to better ensure receipt of the Mailer notifications for that list

-508 resolution stories

-Added test coverage for MailMan Lists in ess-hcms-public-ui (Sonar Quality Gate metric coverage improvement)

-Bi-weekly AMI upgrade

3/23/2021QNP 4.9.0

-AHCAH - update text for Reports Measures Question 1 from "Has your hospital/CCN discharged any patients this reporting period?" to "Has your hospital/CCN discharged any patients under the AHCAH waiver this reporting period?“

-Mailer - upgraded Mailman from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2 – this removes the alpha/numeric token/characters from the welcome email subject line to provide a more user-friendly experience with subject lines.

-Mailer – enable List Admin with the option to make a member a poster to the list. 

-Consolidated HCMS Admin UI into QNP Admin UI, so that there is only one codebase and login page to maintain.

-508 resolution stories

-MongoDB and Postgres password updates

-Bi-weekly AMI upgrade

4/6/21QNP 4.10.0

-AHCAH (ESSTRANF-3055) – corrected the format for the Reporting Measure Period Submission Date when viewing the information within IE

-Mailer – (ESSTRANF-2946, 2945, 2944) – implemented DKIM/keypair changes to support whitelisting changes 

-Mailer – (ESSTRANF-2691, 2692) – preparatory database stories for list categorization

-QNP specific maintenance/updates:

  • ESSTRANF-3054 QNP - AMI Upgrade (biweekly standard update)
  • ESSTRANF-3051 Remove docker volume from efs mount script
  • ESSTRANF-3013 Gateway/F5: Update the urls on Angular config in public-ui.
  • ESSTRANF-3012 Gateway/F5: Removal of QNP-APIGateway and use the F5 load balancer URL
  • ESSTRANF-3009 Add logging-framework artifact to package.json
  • ESSTRANF-2907 Remove pipeline for the HCMS Admin UI
  • ESSTRANF-2864 HARP SSO updates: Update Route guard, Interceptor, logout to use Javascript SDK
  • ESSTRANF-2068 Content Types & Content Manager API: "successfully" misspelling**
  • ESSTRANF-3072 Update nginx resolvers (DevOps/Ventech identified that the resolver IPs in Nginx need to be updated for HARP and QNP to resolve intermittent network api issues originating on March 29)
4/20/21QNP 4.11.0

-AHCAH:  ESSTRANF-2801 add phone extension field; ESSTRANF-2782  add a field for submitters to confirm email address

-QNP Admin UI: (note - this update was applied by CMS OIT in Prod on 4/16)

  • ESSTRANF-3077         Request to extend QNP OKTA token duration to 30 minutes – Extends the Admin UI Login duration from 15 to 30 mins.

-Mailer: implementation of the new QNP public UI category display for all Mailer lists; list categorization will better present the lists and enable potential Subscribers to more easily navigate list selections. 

  • ESSTRANF-3086         Mailer Tags - Mailman Admin API
  • ESSTRANF-2694         Mailer - UI changes for category display
  • ESSTRANF-2693         Mailer - Mailman Public api story

-QNP DevOps/Maintenance:

  • ESSTRANF-3085         Add retention policy to ess-qnp-content-access S3 buckets
  • ESSTRANF-3073         Refactor userdata and efs scripts for HCSM/QNP
  • ESSTRANF-2053         Implement Program Origin field validations in API level like we have in UI
  • ESSTRANF-3069         QNP - AMI Upgrade (R4.11.0) – standard bi-weekly update
5/4/21QNP 4.12.0
  • QNP DevOps/Maintenance:
  • ESSTRANF-3114 Create QNP Banner: the banner will run on the QNP Public page (this will be initially used to recommend using supported browsers Chrome, FireFox, and Edge as opposed to IE).
  • ESSTRANF-3004 Update pagination logic to consume API's on QNP screens and ESSTRANF-3002       API: Add pagination to QNP endpoints: updated logic to improve QNP Admin pagination.
  • ESSTRANF-3122 Upgrade Node Packages: standard I&P DevOps maintenance update
  • ESSTRANF-3108  QNP - AMI Upgrade (R4.12.0): standard bi-weekly upgrade.
5/18/21

QNP 4.13.0

-QNP:

  • ESSTRANF-3064         HARP Single Sign-on (SSO) integration with QNP Admin: QNP Admin UI (for Content Management and Mailer Admin UI) is now integrated with HARP SSO.
  • ESSTRANF-3158         Spike: "Recently Edited" page not loading

-AHCAH:

  • ESSTRANF-3121         AHCAH – Web Application Firewall (WAF) blocking error message: QNP now provides a custom error (with code) that displays in the UI when user encounters WAF blocking mode error, so the user can provide error directly to Service Center for immediate unblocking.

-Mailer:

  • ESSTRANF-3087         Resolved the “ordering” display of QNP Admin pending requests on the Subscription tab for Email confirmation and Held message records.

-QNP DevOps/Maintenance:

  • ESSTRANF-3172         Spike: Resolve/apply monitoring for Latency Issues in QNP Public Prod
  • ESSTRANF-3133 & 3134         ajv upgrade
  • ESSTRANF-3156         Merge New Relic PRs and test NewRelic integration
  • ESSTRANF-3135         Mailer - Bounce queue cleanup (PI15.1)
  • ESSTRANF-3053         MongoDB and Postgres password updates (PI15.1, 5/18/2021 Release)
  • ESSTRANF-3154         QNP - AMI Upgrade (R4.13.0): standard bi-weekly upgrade.
5/19/21QNP 4.13.1

Corrected sorting order display. Verified the sorting order is now displaying in correct order for content types and verified previous Mailer Pending request page sorting order as well.

6/3/21QNP 4.14.0

QualityNet Mailer:

  • Pagination updates: modified QNP Admin UI to display results in Paginated format for Held Messages tab, Email Confirmation tab, Subscription tab, and bounced email results (ESSTRANF-3175, 3041, 3040, 3039, 3024)
  • Members tab: revised terminology to display “Admin” instead of “Owner” (ESSTRANF-3043)
  • Pending requests page: added the List name to the page, which hyperlinks to the List details (ESSTRANF-3042)
  • Created summary "one sheet" that efficiently describes the List Admin enhancements implemented for this current release (we designed this as a reusable marketing template for continued use each Release) (ESSTRANF-3170)
  • Updated List Admin User to reflect the latest changes; posted to Mailer Public Confluence page (ESSTRANF-3169)
  • Created detailed Bounce FAQ documentation; posted to Mailer Public Confluence page (ESSTRANF-3023)   

DevOps and Technical improvements (non-UI):
  • Mailer: Change CloudFormation template to merge mailman services – improves Mailer performance and removed duplication challenges we were experiencing on our side (ESSTRANF-3173).
  • Mailer: Splunk Integration with Mailman and Exim Logs – improves Mailer error diagnosis and tracing (ESSTRANF-2971)
  • QNP - AMI Upgrade (R4.14.0) – standard bi-weekly AMI upgrade (ESSTRANF-3155)



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*****QualityNet Secure Portal is being Decommissioned*****


With the Ashburn Data Center (ADC) being migrated to AWS, the QualityNet Secure Portal (QSP) is being decommissioned on December 15, 2020. HQR and EQRS users will need to visit their respective sites in order to access the applications and log in with their HARP accounts. 


To create a HARP account, visit: Getting Started with HARP

To access HQR, visit: HQR

To access EQRS, visit: EQRS






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For any QNP related questions or questions relating to content on the QualityNet website, Please contact the HCQIS Services and Operations Support Team.

Phone: (866) 288-8914 (TRS:711)

Slack: #help-service-center-sos

Email: ServiceCenterSOS@cms.hhs.gov

Hours of Operation: 24/7


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QNP website: QualityNet

QNP Content Submission: QNP Submission








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