HHS Cuts 14 Health-Record Certification Criteria — SkimNews
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- Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT finalized a rule eliminating 14 of 60 criteria used to certify electronic record-keeping systems sold by companies such as Epic and Oracle; seven other criteria were substantially revised.
- Trump administration made the changes to streamline government regulations and support the development of new technologies for electronic health records used by hospitals.
- Commenters warned that eliminating or revising certification requirements could undermine the security and privacy of sensitive health information, and the administration made many of the changes over those objections.
- Commenters separately objected that the certification changes could weaken efforts to ensure the safety of products that rely on artificial intelligence.
Why it matters: Vendors such as Epic and Oracle gain a lighter federal certification burden: 14 of 60 criteria are gone and seven others changed. That shift advances the administration’s streamlining goal for hospital software, even as commenters objected that it could weaken sensitive-data protection and AI-product safety.
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