The Health Quality Measures Format was initially a product of "The Collaborative for Performance Measure Integration with EHR Systems."

In Spring 2009, The National Quality Forum (NQF) funded an initiative to take the prototype HQMF XML format - and align it with constructs previously defined by HL7 - including the Reference Information Model (RIM).

Documentation for this effort is available here.

HQMF was successfully balloted as an HL7 DSTU standard in the Fall of 2009. HL7 members can download the DSTU standard here.