In efforts to improve transparency and better assist health IT purchasers in making purchasing decisions, IT developers must now comply with transparency reporting requirements associated with their products.
Here are five things to know about the new transparency requirements.
1. The new requirements fall under the ONC Health IT Certification Program and apply to all health IT certified under the 2014 and 2015 editions.
2. "These new disclosures are designed to help purchasers and users better understand the capabilities and limitations of their health IT products. These requirements build on and are a major milestone in our efforts to make developers more accountable for the costs and performance of their health IT," wrote Elise Sweeney Anthony, JD, acting director of the Office of Policy, and Steven Posnack, director of the Office of Standards and Technology, both at ONC.
3. Under the new requirements, IT developers must report all known material types of costs and limitations that a customer may encounter when implementing or using the technology. This information must be displayed on developers' websites and marketing materials in plain language.
4. Additionally, developers must submit a transparency attestation affirming they will voluntarily promote transparency, a move that many developers have already done.
5. ONC-Authorized Certification Bodies will be conducting surveillance of the disclosure statements and transparency attestations. Developers failing to comply risk losing their IT certification and will be subject to corrective action procedures.
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