“The announcement earlier this month by the Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare IT (ONC) about its notice of proposed rulemaking for EHR certification may have overshadowed some other significant news recently coming from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). With the anticipated increase of electronic health record adoption over the next few years, it appears that in addition to rolling out a new voluntary EHR certification program, HHS – via its daughter agency FDA – is considering regulation of health information technology systems.”
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Nuesoft, 16 March 2010

