ONC Proposes HTI-5 Rule: Remove 34 Certification Criteria, Tighten Info-Blocking Exceptions, and Lay FHIR-First Foundation

The sweeping deregulatory proposed rule would cut more than half of ONC's certification requirements while closing loopholes EHR vendors have used to block data access—and it explicitly brings autonomous AI systems under information-blocking rules. ONC's HTI-5 Proposed Rule ("Health Data,...