Tri-Agency HIT Report Pushes 'Light Touch' Oversight, Sets Up New Center

Tri-Agency HIT Report Pushes 'Light Touch' Oversight, Sets Up New Center-insidehealthpolicy:  FDA, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Federal Communications Commission Thursday (April 3) issued a long-awaited proposal for a tri-agency, risk-based framework that breaks health information technology into three categories -- administrative health, health management and medical devices -- and limits FDA oversight to high-risk technology. Under the proposal, FDA would continue to regulate health IT systems that function as medical devices, including computer-aided diagnostics, but would not extend its authority to clinical decision support software categorized as health management IT.