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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§300jj–17 Federal health information technology

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XXVIII— - HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND QUALITY › Part Part A— - Promotion of Health Information Technology › § 300jj–17

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The National Coordinator must help build and keep up-to-date a kind of electronic health record (EHR) system and offer it to health care providers unless the Secretary decides the private market already meets providers’ needs. The EHR must be certified under the program at section 300jj–11(c)(3) and follow the standards at section 300jj–12(a)(2). The Coordinator may charge a small fee to adopt the system, and must take into account small, low-income, rural, and other medically underserved providers. No private or government group is required to use the system. Qualified electronic health record technology — EHR systems that meet the law’s definition.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §300jj–17

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The National Coordinator shall support the development and routine updating of qualified electronic health record technology (as defined in section 300jj of this title) consistent with subsections (b) and (c) and make available such qualified electronic health record technology unless the Secretary determines through an assessment that the needs and demands of providers are being substantially and adequately met through the marketplace.
(b)In making such electronic health record technology publicly available, the National Coordinator shall ensure that the qualified electronic health record technology described in subsection (a) is certified under the program developed under section 300jj–11(c)(3) of this title to be in compliance with applicable standards adopted under section 300jj–12(a)(2) 11 So in original. No par. (2) of section 300jj–12(a) has been enacted. of this title.
(c)The National Coordinator may impose a nominal fee for the adoption by a health care provider of the health information technology system developed or approved under subsection 22 So in original. Probably should be “subsections”. (a) and (b). Such fee shall take into account the financial circumstances of smaller providers, low income providers, and providers located in rural or other medically underserved areas.
(d)Nothing in this section shall be construed to require that a private or government entity adopt or use the technology provided under this section.

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2016—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 114–255 substituted “300jj–12(a)(2)” for “300jj–13(a)”.

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42 U.S.C. § 300jj–17

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73