HHS finalizes rule to ease health IT certification .. punts info blocking proposals

fiercehealthcare ^ | Heather Landi

[spintreebob]

HHS' health information technology arm finalized a rule that streamlines the health IT certification program, projecting to save billions in compliance costs.

The deregulatory rule is an explicit effort to carry out President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14192 "Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation," according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) within HHS.

The rule, called Health Data, Technology and Interoperability: ONC Deregulatory Actions to Unleash Prosperity (HTI-5), is projected to save more than $1.5 billion in regulatory costs, according to ONC.

As part of the ONC Health IT Certification Program, developers must certify that their health IT modules conform to certain functional requirements, known as "certification criteria."

---

TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: healthit; paperwork; requirements; technology

[spintreebob]

"Developers must certify..." This is all good. But the key current problem is not addressed. The Enterprise Master Person Index EMPI does not meet the industry definition of a master person index. The EMPI has the DEAD, DUPLICATES, GHOSTS. Yes, they did a one time clean up of some of the dead. But until HHS requires industry standards for things such as MASTER PERSON INDEX, the one time bandaid will not stop the infection.

[Mariner]

Security and data reliability cannot be compromised.