ONC proposes updates to Health IT Certification Program
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology today released a that would update certification requirements for health information technology developers under its Health IT Certification Program. For example, the rule would implement an Electronic Health Record Reporting Program as a new condition of certification under the 21st Century Cures Act; modify and expand exceptions to the information blocking regulations to support information sharing; revise several certification program criteria; and adopt U.S. Core Data for Interoperability Version 3 as a certification standard, . The proposed rule will be published in the April 18 Federal Register, with comments accepted for 60 days.