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ONC's HTI-5 final rule, published October 28, 2026, removes 14 criteria from the Health IT Certification Program, reshaping compliance and product roadmaps for health IT vendors, providers and payers.
On October 28, 2026, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology published the HTI-5 final rule, scaling back the ONC Health IT Certification Program by removing 14 certification criteria and revising other parts of the framework. The available excerpt does not identify which criteria were removed or the revised provisions, so affected obligations must be confirmed against the rule text.
Why sophisticated counsel should care: certified health IT sits at the intersection of federal and state incentive programs, hospital and payer procurement, and vendor development cycles. A narrower criteria set can shorten conformance testing and release timelines for EHR and digital health vendors, while changing which attestations providers must make and which marketing claims remain supportable. It also matters for clients whose business models assume that a given certification status is durable.
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Steptoe's international compliance team reports a U.S. Treasury proposal to expand outbound investment restrictions under the COINS Act, which could widen screening and reporting duties on U.S. persons' foreign investments.
Steptoe's international compliance team reports that the U.S. Treasury has issued a proposal to expand outbound investment restrictions under the COINS Act. The evidence available here is a single firm alert headline, so the proposal's specifics — covered jurisdictions, the technology or infrastructure sectors involved, the transaction forms caught (equity, debt, joint ventures), the mix of prohibitions versus notification requirements, and the comment deadline and any effective date — are not established and should be verified against the Federal Register notice and Treasury's own materials.
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ONC's HTI-5 final rule, published October 28, 2026, removes 14 criteria from the Health IT Certification Program, reshaping compliance and product roadmaps for health IT vendors, providers and payers.
On October 28, 2026, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology published the HTI-5 final rule, scaling back the ONC Health IT Certification Program by removing 14 certification criteria and revising other parts of the framework. The available excerpt does not identify which criteria were removed or the revised provisions, so affected obligations must be confirmed against the rule text.
Why sophisticated counsel should care: certified health IT sits at the intersection of federal and state incentive programs, hospital and payer procurement, and vendor development cycles. A narrower criteria set can shorten conformance testing and release timelines for EHR and digital health vendors, while changing which attestations providers must make and which marketing claims remain supportable. It also matters for clients whose business models assume that a given certification status is durable.
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ONC's HTI-5 final rule, published October 28, 2026, removes 14 criteria from the Health IT Certification Program, reshaping compliance and product roadmaps for health IT vendors, providers and payers.
On October 28, 2026, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology published the HTI-5 final rule, scaling back the ONC Health IT Certification Program by removing 14 certification criteria and revising other parts of the framework. The available excerpt does not identify which criteria were removed or the revised provisions, so affected obligations must be confirmed against the rule text.
Why sophisticated counsel should care: certified health IT sits at the intersection of federal and state incentive programs, hospital and payer procurement, and vendor development cycles. A narrower criteria set can shorten conformance testing and release timelines for EHR and digital health vendors, while changing which attestations providers must make and which marketing claims remain supportable. It also matters for clients whose business models assume that a given certification status is durable.
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Steptoe's international compliance team reports a U.S. Treasury proposal to expand outbound investment restrictions under the COINS Act, which could widen screening and reporting duties on U.S. persons' foreign investments.
Steptoe's international compliance team reports that the U.S. Treasury has issued a proposal to expand outbound investment restrictions under the COINS Act. The evidence available here is a single firm alert headline, so the proposal's specifics — covered jurisdictions, the technology or infrastructure sectors involved, the transaction forms caught (equity, debt, joint ventures), the mix of prohibitions versus notification requirements, and the comment deadline and any effective date — are not established and should be verified against the Federal Register notice and Treasury's own materials.
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Grade 3 — worth a glance, not the full analysis.
- Amended Complaints Sharpen Valuation, Fee and Non-Accrual Theories Against BDC Advisers
Mayer Brown reports that amended complaints in private credit litigation sharpen valuation, fee and non-accrual theories against business development company advisers, signalling where advisers and lenders face exposure.
- Mayer Brown issues October 2026 Russia/Ukraine sanctions update
Mayer Brown's month-of-October 2026 digest is the standing consolidated review of Russia/Ukraine-related sanctions and export-control developments, though the captured filing contains no item-level detail on specific measures.