---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300jj–17"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300jj–17"
heading: "Federal health information technology"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300jj-17"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXVIII — Health Information Technology and Quality"
  - "Part A — Promotion of Health Information Technology"
---

# §300jj–17. Federal health information technology

- (a) **In general—** The [National Coordinator](/usc/42/300jj.md?p=11) shall support the development and routine updating of [qualified electronic health record](/usc/42/300jj.md?p=13) technology (as defined in [section 300jj of this title](/usc/42/300jj.md)) consistent with subsections [(b)](#b) and [(c)](#c) and make available such [qualified electronic health record](/usc/42/300jj.md?p=13) technology unless the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) determines through an assessment that the needs and demands of [providers](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8) are being substantially and adequately met through the marketplace.
- (b) **Certification—** In making such electronic health record technology publicly available, the [National Coordinator](/usc/42/300jj.md?p=11) shall ensure that the [qualified electronic health record](/usc/42/300jj.md?p=13) technology described in [subsection (a)](#a) is certified under the [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) developed under [section 300jj–11(c)(3) of this title](/usc/42/300jj–11.md?p=c-3) to be in compliance with applicable standards adopted under [section 300jj–12(a)(2)](/usc/42/300jj–12.md)[^1] of this title.
- (c) **Authorization to charge a nominal fee—** The [National Coordinator](/usc/42/300jj.md?p=11) may impose a nominal fee for the adoption by a [health care provider](/usc/42/300jj.md?p=3) of the [health information technology](/usc/42/300jj.md?p=5) system developed or approved under subsection[^2] (a) and (b). Such fee shall take into account the financial circumstances of smaller [providers](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8), low income [providers](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8), and [providers](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8) 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.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. No par. (2) of section 300jj–12(a) has been enacted.
[^2]: So in original. Probably should be “subsections”.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXX, § 3007, as added Pub. L. 111–5, div. A, title XIII, § 13101, Feb. 17, 2009, 123 Stat. 241; amended Pub. L. 114–255, div. A, title IV, § 4003(e)(2)(E), Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1175.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

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