HIMSS October 30, 2020
On Thursday, October 29, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published an Interim Final Regulation that extends the applicability date for the information blocking provisions and some compliance dates in the ONC Health IT Certification Program, including dates for certain updated 2015 Edition health IT certification criteria and Conditions and Maintenance of Certification requirements.
This announcement builds on ONC’s enforcement discretion announcement from April 2020 (along with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services), and enables our health care system to focus on addressing the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), while still maintaining a trajectory that will advance patients’ access to their health information. Today’s announcement from ONC can be divided up into three pieces:...
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