ONC eases EHR certification requirements
Modern Healthcare September 21, 2017
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology wants to make it easier for vendors to get their products certified. Ultimately, the agency hopes this will give IT firms more time to focus on interoperability.
The agency announced today that it will allow vendors to “self-declare” meeting the majority of criteria needed to get their products certified. ONC will also ease requirements for random surveillance of health IT.
These changes will make the ONC Health IT Certification Program more efficient and will reduce the workload on both health IT users and developers, Elise Sweeney Anthony, director of the ONC’s office of policy, and Steven Posnack, director of the ONC’s office of standards and technology, wrote on the ONC’s...