Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: ONC Deregulatory Actions To Unleash Prosperity

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What it does

This final rule focuses on deregulatory actions identified in HHS regulations regarding health information technology standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria and regarding certification programs for health information technology. This final rule reduces burden, offers flexibility to both developers and providers, and supports innovation through the removal and revision of certain certification criteria and regulatory provisions.

The Health and Human Services Department's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

2 parts of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

45 CFR 170, 45 CFR 172

Compared with

The Health and Human Services Department has published 11 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 13 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0955-AA09 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• Dec. 29, 2025 Proposed rule. Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: ASTP/ONC Deregulatory Actions To Unleash Prosperity

What happens next and when

This final rule is effective on December 28, 2026, except for amendatory instructions 7, 10, and 12 which are effective January 1, 2027. The incorporation by reference of certain material listed in the rule was approved by the Director of the Federal Register between February 12, 2010, and October 1, 2025.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 45 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register