HTI-3 Final Rule
ONC’s Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-3) Protecting Care Access final rule reflects ONC’s focused efforts to improve information sharing while protecting patient privacy. The final rule finalizes information blocking regulatory enhancements that were proposed in the HTI-2 Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability proposed rule.
In the HTI-3 final rule, we:
- Finalized the addition of a definition of “reproductive health care” to the defined terms for purposes of the information blocking regulations, which appears in 45 CFR 171.102.
- Finalized revisions to two previously established information blocking exceptions: the Privacy Exception, § 171.202, and Infeasibility Exception, § 171.204.
- Finalized the new Protecting Care Access Exception, § 171.206.