ONC Health IT Certification Program Updates

04/05/2019

21st Century Cures Act NPRM Draft Test Procedures available for stakeholder feedback

The draft test procedures for the proposed § 170.315(b)(10) electronic health information export, 170.315(b)(11) electronic prescribing, 170.315(b)(12) data segmentation for privacy - send, 170.315(b)(13) data segmentation for privacy - receive, 170.315(g)(10) standardized API for patient and population services, and 170.315(g)(11) consent management for APIs that were developed to accompany the proposed new certification criteria outlined in the21st Century Cures Act Notice of Proposed Rulemaking are now available for stakeholder feedback. The draft test procedures can be accessed from the ONC Health IT Certification Program Draft Test Method page for 30 days ending Monday, May 6th, 2019. We encourage you to review and provide feedback.

You can review the NPRM in the Federal Register as well as many additional NRPM resources at https://www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-regulation-and-policy/notice-proposed-rulemaking-improve-interoperability-health . Please note the NPRM comment period ends at 11:59 PM ET on May 3rd, 2019. Additionally, comments on the draft test procedures should be submitted separately from comments on the NPRM.

Test Method Updates

Recently Updated Test Procedures (TPs)

Criterion Number	Criterion Title	Details
§ 170.315(f)(7)	Transmission to public health agencies — health care surveys	Added the option to test for conformance to National Health Care Surveys IG Release 1.2 for this criterion; Health IT already certified to NHCS IG Release 1.0 will not be required to retest or recertify to Release 1.2. Added hyperlinks to NHCS IG 1.2 Validator, NHCS 1.2 Validator Tool Guide and Test Data; Changed references for NHCS IG Release 1.0 to NHCS IG 1.0 Validator

Program Edition of the ONC Inferno Tool released on 4/1/2019

Inferno (https://inferno.healthit.gov/ ) is a rigorous testing suite for HL7® Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR). Inferno provides a comprehensive testing framework for health IT developers to implement the FHIR standard consistently. There are two editions of Inferno: Inferno Program Edition and Inferno Community Edition. The Community Edition of Inferno is for general FHIR testing, with a community curated set of tests for select FHIR Implementation Guides. Developers can create test cases with Inferno Community Edition and contribute them to the community. The Program Edition is tightly bound to testing for the 21st Century Cures Act proposed standardized API for patient and population services certification criterion at § 170.315(g)(10), and can be used with the draft (g)(10) test procedure which is open for stakeholder feedback as noted above.

Questions may be directed to the ONC Health IT Certification Program via email at: ONC.Certification@hhs.gov