As we roll into another season of attestations, it's time to check key certification maintenance requirements to keep your EHR compliant. CHPL Bi-annual attestations are coming up shortly - starting Apr 1, 2025. Are you ready?

The Information Blocking Rule ensures efficient sharing of electronic health information (EHI), prohibiting unnecessary restrictions unless legally justified. Compliance is critical for healthcare providers, EHRs, and HIE networks to avoid penalties. Learn simple steps to avoid information blocking.

Staying compliant with information blocking regulations is essential, not only to avoid penalties but to protect patient trust. With the ONC's rules tightening and hefty fines at stake, it's more critical than ever for EHRs and healthcare providers to understand and adhere to these guidelines, ensuring transparency, data-accessibility, and data-sharing that empowers patients.

ONC warns healthcare providers and developers to keep data access open as directed in HTI-1 and the Cures Act. Hidden information blocking could result in a bone-chilling visit from regulators this Halloween.

As we move from (a)(9) Clinical Decision Support (CDS) to (b)(11) Decision Support Interventions (DSI) under the HTI-1 Final Rule, the differences between these two criteria are substantial, driving significant improvements in how decision support is delivered within healthcare systems. Read more.

ONC has updated the (g)(10) requirements, as detailed in the HTI-1 final rule. As per these updates, EHRs must publish and maintain their service base URLs in FHIR format, and complete compliance checks by December 31, 2024. Learn more about all (g)(10) related tasks and possible compliance paths available to EHRs in this blog.

It’s ONC Bingo time! Today’s number is B11. Before you reach for your daubers, let's talk about something even more exciting than marking off squares: What will B11 add to your EHR? How to fully comply with the B11 requirements to safely enable Decision Support Intervention (DSI) within your EHR?

This blog takes you through the highlights of the HTI-1 program and how ONC will be enforcing the (g)(10) FHIR API requirement. It focuses on requirements EHRs and certified health IT modules must meet by the Dec 31, 2024 deadline. We’ve also included an HTI-1 readiness checklist for convenience.

Are you looking to fast-track your transition to 170.315 (b)(10) certification? Let us simplify your journey to quick (b)(10) compliance and CHPL listing updates.

January 1, 2023, is not just the beginning of a new year, it is also the beginning of the enforcement period for the Information Blocking portion of the Cures Act. The EHRs must provide FHIR APIs for all their users, and Providers must ensure that their FHIR API endpoints are publicly available.

You might be misinformed if you think you are required to do a Live Test with your ONC-ATB before December to test the (g)(10) FHIR-based API. Integrate with BlueButtonPRO, a pre-certified (g)(10) application, and avoid live testing.

The ONC has announced its punitive action plan to deal with non-compliant Health IT developers. EHRs failing compliance will undergo Direct Review, have to submit a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) and will be placed under a Certification Ban till they become compliant. Integrating with (g)(10) pre-certified BlueButtonPRO is an easy solution.

Get up to date on critical Cures Act and BlueButtonPRO services updates to be better prepared for the upcoming deadlines.

Tune in to the message the ONC is broadcasting through their recent blogs/media to reinforce the need for (g)(10) FHIR® API and Information Blocking compliance, whom these apply to, and how the mandates will be enforced. Let’s turn up the volume on the latest hits from ONC.

Do you have a game plan ready to have a (g)(10) FHIR-based API in place for the fast-approaching December 31st, 2022 deadline? We have assembled a comprehensive checklist of items you should consider for making an informed decision.

The misinformation floating around combined with an incomplete understanding of the (g)(10) FHIR API and other Cures Act requirements can be detrimental to the EHR developers and the providers. In this blog, we bust these myths, shatter misconceptions, and guide you to ask the right questions.

EHRs are feeling the heat of Cures Act requirements as the deadlines draw closer. Read on to find answers to burning questions that EHR developers and providers are faced with as they are trying to understand the implementation details of the (g)(10) FHIR API and its implications.

As the Cures Act deadlines draw closer, many EHRs find themselves in the ring of FHIR, whether it be Information Blocking, Real World Testing, or the (g)(10) FHIR API certification. Continue to read to learn about different elements of Cures Update and how you can jump through them successfully.

Is your EHR concerned about the fast-approaching Cures Act Conditions and Maintenance of Certification deadlines and the timelines for your team to complete internal development, QA testing, Test Wave prep, and deployment to production/users? Darena Solutions can help your EHR dev team answer the classic build vs buy question.

The latest Condition of Certification to maintain 2015 Edition EHR Certification is approaching fast. The EHRs will need to have an APPROVED Real World Test-plan (RWT) in place by the ONC deadline of Dec 15, 2021. The ACB deadlines are sooner. This blog highlights the specific challenges in meeting the requirements for RWT compliance and possible solutions.