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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.

The QualityNet Portal (QNP 2.0) was released into production on September 25, 2019. The redesign of QualityNet is the first major update to the website in over 10 years with the goal of a new Human Centered Design (HCD) to provide an enhanced user experience. The replacement of QNP 1.0 (which used Oracle Fatwire) now uses a headless content management system (H-CMS) in a addition to the new public interface.  QNP 2.0 consolidates existing stove-piped CCSQ quality reporting program features and functionalities into reusable, scalable, flexible enterprise services for quality reporting programs for healthcare providers and their supporting vendors. QualityNet’s new responsive design allows users to easily view the website on a variety of devices (desktop, tablet, and mobile) and from multiple web browsers.

The website was restructured to achieve consistency and scalability, faster page loading, simplified and more intuitive navigation, and improved accessibility. Web pages have been reorganized and consolidated to help users locate key program resources, such as specifications manuals and measure sets more quickly. Additionally, older archived materials that are no longer relevant or useful (e.g. pre-2012) have been removed to maximize the website’s relevance and responsiveness.

The redesigned public-facing pages of the QualityNet website feature the same Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) healthcare quality improvement news, program information, reporting tools, and applications that have always been present , but with a more fluid, user friendly experience and the ability to manage and navigate content more efficiently.

Users will continue to access QualityNet at the same address: https://www.qualitynet.org as was used previously. They will also continue to access the QualityNet Secure Portal (for data submission, secure file transfer, etc.) in the same manner that was done previously (from a login button on the Home page or directly from the Choose Your QualityNet Destination page). (https://cportal.qualitynet.org/QNet/pgm_select.htm). No changes are being made to the QualityNet Secure Portal at this time.

Users attempting to access pages they’ve previously bookmarked in the original site will be automatically redirected to the new URls in the new QualityNet site.

The QualityNet Secure Portal (QSP) houses various applications for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) quality reporting programs.

Accessed via login from QualityNet, the QualityNet Secure Portal is the only CMS approved website for secure communications and healthcare quality  data exchange between: Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), hospitals, physician offices, nursing homes, end stage renal disease (ESRD) networks and facilities, and data vendors.

The goal of the QualityNet Secure Portal is to help improve the quality of health care for Medicare beneficiaries by providing for the safe, efficient exchange of information regarding their care The QualityNet site is a public site and does not require a user login or password, so it is accessible to anyone. Users will continue to access QualityNet at the same web address as they have in the past: https://www.qualitynet.org. Also, users will continue to access the QualityNet Secure Portal (for data submission, secure file transfer, etc.) in the same fashion as they did previously: from a login button on the Home page or directly from the Choose Your QualityNet Destination page. No changes are being made to the QualityNet Secure Portal.