HHS finalizes HTI-5 rule to cut health IT certification costs
The ONC says the final deregulatory rule removes administrative burdens for certified health IT developers and could save more than $1.5 billion.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said its Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has finalized the HTI-5 rule, a deregulatory package aimed at reducing compliance work for developers in the federal Health IT Certification Program.
The final rule is intended to free developer resources for patient and clinician tools, while HHS said future work may address interoperability standards, electronic health-information sharing, application programming interfaces and successor technologies. Comments on information-blocking proposals remain under consideration.
For health-tech companies, the immediate significance is a lower stated compliance burden within the certification program. The release does not quantify company-level revenue or profit effects, so the business impact should be read as a regulatory-cost and product-development signal rather than an earnings forecast.
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