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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§300jj–17 Federal Health Information Technology

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

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The National Coordinator must help build and keep up-to-date qualified electronic health record technology and make it available unless the Secretary finds the market already meets providers’ needs. The technology must be certified under the program created under section 300jj–11(c)(3) and meet standards adopted under section 300jj–12(a)(2). The National Coordinator may charge a small fee for providers to adopt the system. Any fee must consider small, low-income, rural, and medically underserved providers. No person or agency has to use the technology.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §300jj–17

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

(a)In general
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)Certification
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) of this title.
(c)Authorization to charge a nominal fee
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 (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)Rule of construction
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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Amendments

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

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 300jj–17

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110