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The paper presents a solution that can help clinical staff develop clinical quality measurement more easily and generate the corresponding data reports and visualization by a configurable method based on openEHR and Clinical Quality Language (CQL).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>First, expression logic adopted from CQL was combined with openEHR to express clinical quality indicators. Archetype binding provides the clinical information models used in expression logic, terminology binding makes the medical concepts consistent used in clinical quality artifacts and metadata is regarded as the essential component for sharing and management. Then, a systematic approach was put forward to facilitate the development of clinical quality indicators and the generation of corresponding data reports and visualization. Finally, clinical physicians were invited to test our system and give their opinions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>With the combination of openEHR and CQL, 64 indicators from Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) were expressed for verification and a complicated indicator was shown as an example. 68 indicators from 17 different scenes in the local environment were also expressed and computed in our system. A platform was built to support the development of indicators in a unified way. Also, an execution engine can parse and compute these indicators. Based on a clinical data repository (CDR), indicators were used to generate data reports and visualization and shown in a dashboard.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Our method is capable of expressing clinical quality indicators formally. 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