“It’s going to be a busy year – a really busy year. In 2022, much of the promise of the 21st Century Cures Act comes to certified health IT near you.”
“ONC dutifully monitors industry progress towards certification to the 2015 Edition Cures Update (Cures Update), which introduces new standards and functionalities that will benefit our health care system in a variety of ways. This includes improved interoperability through secure, standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) and the United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 1 (USCDI v1); enhanced patient safety with a new e-prescribing standard; and support for other Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, such as CMS’s Promoting Interoperability Programs.”
“Upcoming Milestone
Under And so far, while the industry has gotten a start, a lot of certification action will happen in the coming months: [Chart titled “Progress of Certification to the 2015 Edition Cures Update Criteria to be Available by December 31, 2022″]”
“Developers are making steady progress with the new privacy and security certification criteria. These require transparency attestations indicating whether a certified health IT developer supports encrypting authentication credentials and multi-factor authentication. Additionally, we see a small, but promising uptick in the use of more granular security tags to restrict redisclosure of sensitive information at the data entry level. While these are attestations and voluntary updates, we view these trends as industry responding to and taking seriously the opportunities to improve privacy and security through certification criteria…” Read the full article here.
Source: An Upcoming Milestone in Our Interoperability Journey – By Jeff Smith, Tony Myers and Papia Paul, March 3, 2022. ONC Health IT Buzz.
