ONC aims to release proposed interoperability rule in April
Modern Healthcare January 18, 2018
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will release a proposed rule about interoperability and certification in April, the agency said Thursday.
The proposed rule would update the HITECH Act and meet some provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act, including details about certification for health IT developers, according to ONC’s director of policy, Elise Sweeney Anthony, at the first meeting of the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee on Thursday.
The rule will also deal with how health information networks attest to using a trusted exchange framework and common agreement for exchanging data among themselves.
Under the draft Trusted Exchange Framework the ONC released in early 2018, providers would be able to request a single...