[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 23 (Thursday, February 4, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6022-6023]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02057]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Notice of Availability: 2015 EditionTest Tools and Test 
Procedures Approved by the National Coordinator for the ONC Health IT 
Certification Program

AGENCY: Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information 
Technology (ONC), Department of Health and Human Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of test tools and test 
procedures approved by the National Coordinator for Health Information 
Technology for the testing of Health IT Modules to the 2015 Edition 
health IT certification criteria under the ONC Health IT Certification 
Program. The approved test tools and test procedures are identified on 
the ONC Web site at: https://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/2015-edition-test-method.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alicia Morton, Director, ONC Health IT 
Certification Program, Office of the National Coordinator for Health 
Information Technology, 202-690-7151.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 7, 2011, the Department of Health 
and Human Services issued a final rule establishing a permanent 
certification program for the purposes of testing and certifying health 
information technology (``Establishment of the Permanent Certification 
Program for Health Information Technology,'' (76 FR 1262) (``Permanent 
Certification Program final rule''). The permanent certification 
program was renamed the ONC HIT Certification Program in a final rule 
published on September 4, 2012 (77 FR 54163) (``2014 Edition final 
rule''), and subsequently renamed the ONC Health IT Certification 
Program in a final rule published on October 16, 2015 (80 FR 62601) 
(``2015 Edition final rule''). In the preamble of the Permanent 
Certification Program final rule, we stated that when the National

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Coordinator for Health Information Technology (National Coordinator) 
had approved test tools and test procedures for certification criteria 
adopted by the Secretary, that ONC would publish a notice of 
availability in the Federal Register and identify the approved test 
tools and test procedures on the ONC Web site.
    In the 2015 Edition final rule, the Secretary adopted a new edition 
of certification criteria (``2015 Edition''). The National Coordinator 
has approved test tools and test procedures for testing Health IT 
Modules to the 2015 Edition under the ONC Health IT Certification 
Program. These approved test tools and test procedures are identified 
on the ONC Web site at: https://www.healthit.gov/policy-researchers-implementers/2015-edition-test-method.

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 300jj-11.

    Dated: January 29, 2016.
Karen B. DeSalvo,
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2016-02057 Filed 2-3-16; 8:45 am]
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