Per the notice below, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is issuing the 2025 version of its Quality Indicators (QI) software.

AHRQ is pleased to announce the AHRQ Quality Indicators v2025 software release (August 29) and Webinar (September 16).

The AHRQ Quality Indicators (QI) v2025 Software will be available for download from the AHRQ QI website at: https://qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/software/qi beginning August 29.

WEBINAR DETAILS AND REGISTRATION:

AHRQ invites you to join a Webinar presented by the AHRQ QI Team to learn about highlights of the AHRQ QI v2025 software on September 16, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET.  The presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

Who Benefits from this Webinar: AHRQ QI software users and anyone interested in learning about updates to the QI software.

Save the Date:

When: September 16, 2025, at 3:30 PM ET

Where: Register on Zoom 

The v2025 Quality Indicators Software

The v2025 Quality Indicators software calculates risk-adjusted rates based on ICD-10-CM/PCS coded all-payer 2020, 2021, and 2022 Healthcare Cost and Utilization (HCUP) State Inpatient Databases (SID).  The 2022 State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) were also used to develop the Prevention Quality Indicators in Emergency Department Settings (PQE) module and Maternal Health Indicators (MHI) module.  The v2025 software release includes:

• New: CloudQI Software now supports Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQI) and Prevention Quality Indicators in Inpatient Settings (PQI), in addition to Patient Safety Indicators (PSI), PQE, and the MHI beta module.  This release offers enhanced flexibility and functionality, including hosted deployments and multiuser support.
• New: The MHI module has been expanded in v2025 with new beta indicators.
• Support for fiscal year (FY) 2025 ICD-10-CM/PCS coding and updated risk adjustment in SAS QI, WinQI, and CloudQI.
• PSI 02 Death Rate in Low-Mortality Diagnosis-Related Groups has been removed from the software and is expected to be formally retired in a future version.
• Indicator refinements.
• Year 2024 Census-based population estimates for area-level indicator denominators.

Detailed information about all changes in the software will be included in the Release Notes and Change Logs, available on the AHRQ Quality Indicators website.

The AHRQ Quality Indicator Support Team

QIsupport@ahrq.hhs.gov