The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator announced Monday that CMS would extend the deadline for commenting on quality reporting and certification of EHR products.

CMS posted the extension notice on the Federal Register.

As first outlined in the request for information, which was posted on the Federal Register on Dec. 31, 2015, CMS and ONC seek public comment on several items related to the certification of health information technology.

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These include EHR products used for reporting to the EHR incentive programs and certain CMS quality reporting programs such as – but not limited to – the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and the Physician Quality Reporting System.

CMS and ONC want industry perspective how often to require recertification, the number of clinical quality measures a certified health IT module should be required to certify and ways to improve testing of certified health IT modules. 

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That feedback will help inform CMS and ONC about what factors may need to be considered for future rules relating to the reporting of quality measures under CMS programs.

The two agencies note the request for information is part of the effort of CMS to streamline and reduce the burden around government requirements for eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, critical access hospitals and health IT developers.

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