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ONC Proposed Rule (HTI-1) Offers a TEFCA Carrot
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There is a lot of activity at the ONC right now with a continued focus on rule making designed to promote the sharing of healthcare data (reducing information blocking). ONC’s new proposed rule HTI-1 has a fairly broad reach and touches on Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1 Proposed Rule.) It aims to implement key provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act, with a specific emphasis on health IT certification and information blocking.
Getting most of the attention (read the EHR Associations’ reaction), is the overall implementation timelines and the proposal of new policies that, if finalized, would promote greater trust in the predictive decision support interventions (DSIs) used in healthcare. The ONC (and other federal partners such as the FDA) believe these DSI related proposals would help enable users to determine whether the predictive DSI is fair, appropriate, valid, effective, and safe, and enable market competition and align with the FDA’s recent guidance on CDS.
But another part of HTI-1 caught our attention here at Zen.
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