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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is amending and updating its HHS Acquisition Regulation (HHS) to implement requirements to procure health information technology (health IT) that meets standards and implementation specifications (standards) adopted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), consistent with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act). This rule would add a new HHSAR subpart 339.70, Standards for Health Information Technology, which provides definitions, policy, and a prescription for a new HHSAR clause to implement requirements of the HITECH Act, to include: 1) When contracting officers must procure health IT that complies with the HITECH Act; and 2) inserting in contracts and agreements with health care providers, health plans, or health insurance issuers the requirement to use health IT that complies with the HITECH Act.