Trump administration finalizes health IT rule on prior authorization, electronic prescribing

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Regulators finalized an interoperability and technology rule on Thursday that aims to lessen administrative burden on providers, including through updates to prior authorization processes.

The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s HTI-4 rule lays out new and updated health IT certification criteria for electronic prior authorization, electronic prescribing and real-time prescription benefit checks.

The regulation should help clinicians spend less time on paperwork, the ASTP said. “We believe that this work will help patients and providers determine patient benefits at the point of care,” Dr. Thomas Keane, assistant secretary for technology policy and national coordinator for health IT, said during