The Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology published a proposed rule for Voluntary 2015 Edition Electronic Health Record Certification Criteria; Interoperability Updates and Regulatory Improvements. The proposed rule eliminates the “complete EHR” designation, separates the content and transport certification criteria and announces a more frequent certification rule making process. The proposed rule also fixes a number of issues in the 2014 edition with changes to Computerized Provider Order Entry, Clinical decision support, uses of UDI data and many others.
The Microsoft Word version of the proposed rule and the document that can be used for providing comments can be found on ONC’s Web site at the following link: 2015 Health IT EHR Rule.