EHR Intelligence March 7, 2022
Hannah Nelson

Health IT developers must meet ONC Cures Update certification criteria for health data security and interoperability by December 31, 2022.

Health IT developers are making steady progress in fulfilling the new privacy and security certification criteria for the 2015 Edition Cures Update, according to a HealthITBuzz blog post written by ONC officials Jeff Smith, Tony Myers, and Papia Paul.

Approximately 50 percent of certified health IT modules currently support the 2015 Edition Cures Update criterion for encrypting authentication credentials and multi-factor authentication. Additionally, ONC has observed promising growth in the use of more granular security tags to restrict the redisclosure of sensitive information at the data entry level.

However, ONC officials noted that health IT developers must make considerable...

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