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Health Information Sharing and AI Use: New HHS Final Rule, Key Regulatory Updates, Best Practices for Compliance

AI Transparency, Health IT Certification, Information Blocking Requirements, and More

A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Thursday, June 13, 2024

1:00pm-2:30pm EDT, 10:00am-11:30am PDT

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, May 17, 2024

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This CLE webinar will guide counsel through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's (HHS-ONC) final rule titled "Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing" (HTI-1 final rule) that significantly impacts health IT management, including AI use, health IT certification, and information sharing across the healthcare industry. The panel will discuss possible state/local law interactions and offer best practices for policy and process compliance.

Description

The HHS-ONC recently issued the HTI-1 final rule, effective Mar. 11, 2024, that significantly impacts health IT management, AI transparency, and information sharing across the healthcare industry. Counsel should be aware of the new rule's requirements to ensure their clients' policies and processes are in compliance with the new rule.

The HTI-1 final rule implements the Electronic Health Record reporting provision of the 21st Century Cures Act by establishing new and revised certification criteria for health IT developers, including the requirement to report certain metrics as part of their participation in the health IT certification program to provide more insight into how certified health IT is used in support of care delivery.

Additionally, the final rule establishes the first of its kind transparency requirements for AI and other predictive algorithms that are part of certified health IT to promote the responsible use of AI and make it possible for clinical users to access a consistent baseline set of information about the algorithms they use to support their decision making and to assess such algorithms for fairness, appropriateness, validity, effectiveness, and safety.

The HTI-1 final rule also updates information blocking regulations to support information sharing by revising certain definitions that clarify the scope of who may qualify as certified health IT developers, as well as adding new options to satisfy existing exceptions and establishing a new exception.

Listen as our expert panel provides an in-depth look at the HTI-1 final rule and discusses its impact on the healthcare industry. The panel will also address state/local law considerations and offer best practices for compliance.

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Outline

  1. Introduction
  2. Final HHS-ONC rule
    1. Health IT certification program
    2. AI and other predictive algorithm transparency
    3. Enhanced information blocking and information sharing requirements
    4. Other considerations
  3. State/local law interaction
  4. Best practices for compliance

Benefits

The panel will review these and other important issues:

  • How does the final rule differ from the April 2023 proposed rule?
  • How does the final rule impact the use of AI in the healthcare industry?
  • In what ways does the final rule clarify who is covered under the Information Blocking Rule? And how does the final rule impact healthcare information sharing?
  • What are updates to the health IT certification program under the final rule?

Faculty

Moundas, Christine
Christine Moundas

Partner
Ropes & Gray

Ms. Moundas is co-head of the firm's digital health initiative and actively participates in the data, privacy...  |  Read More

Additional faculty
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