The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) held a webinar to address questions raised from the publication of the ONC Health IT Certification Program: Enhanced Oversight and Accountability Proposed Rule in March.
The rules aims to further enhance the safety, reliability, transparency and accountability of certified health IT for users by modifying the ONC Health IT Certification Program to reflect the widespread adoption of certified EHRs and the rapid pace of innovation in the health IT market.
The webinar speakers, Michael L. Lipinski, JD, director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Division of Federal Policy and Regulatory Affairs; and Mark A. Knee, JD, senior policy analyst, cleared up some “incorrect press” by detailing what the rule does and does not enable.
It does not create new certification requirements for health IT developers or create new certification requirements for health IT for providers participating in Department of Health and Human Services programs. The proposed rule also does not establish a means for ONC to directly test and certify health IT. ONC’s authorized certification bodies (ACBs) will continue to test and certify health IT. It does not establish regular or routine auditing of certified health IT by ONC.
The proposed rule does enable ONC to directly review already certify health IT products, increases ONC oversight of health IT testing bodies and enables increased transparency and accountability by making identifiable surveillance results of certified HIT publicly available. For the full article click here
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