The CMS is giving hospitals and the vendors of electronic health-records systems more time to comment publicly on a request for information about their readiness to electronically report clinical quality data.
The request for information was first published in the Federal Register on Jan. 3. The original deadline, which was today, has been extended to Feb. 1.
In its request, the CMS announced it was exploring ways in which hospitals might be able to report a subset of the CMS' Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program measures using certified EHRs in the Medicare or Medicaid EHR Incentive Payment programs.