A Christman present from ASTP

#HTI2 Part 2 just dropped. At 54 pages, Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Protecting Care Access is one of the shortest rules I've seen recently from ASTP/ONC.  You can find it in the FR at https://federalregister.gov/documents/2024/12/17/2024-29683/health-data-technology-and-interoperability-protecting-care-access or in PDF form here https://govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-12-17/pdf/2024-29683.pdf

There's just two pages of regulatory text in Protecting Care Access part of #HTI2. 

A definition for "Reproductive Healthcare" is added to section 171 -- which explains in part the rationale for this rule.

And Information Blocking is updated with 171.206 to permit blocking to protect "persons seeking, obtaining, providing, or facilitating reproductive health care are at risk of being potentially exposed to legal action ..."

The text for it starts here https://federalregister.gov/d/2024-29683/p-amd-5

Protecting Care Access truly is a Christmas present.  Thank you ASTP!