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ONC HTI-1 for tutor and grader workflows

ONC HTI-1 in tutor and grader workflows: what compliance requires, who asks for evidence, and the records to keep.

Legal forceBinding on developers of certified health IT; certification is voluntary but tied to CMS programs
Applies from8 Feb 2024
SectorEducation
Checked21 Oct 2026

01 / The rule

What ONC HTI-1 requires

Developers of health IT certified under the ONC Health IT Certification Program, plus actors subject to the information blocking rules (developers, health information networks and exchanges, and health care providers).

  1. 01Certify to the decision support interventions criterion (45 CFR 170.315(b)(11)), which replaced the clinical decision support criterion (a)(9).
  2. 02Provide users source attribute information for supplied predictive and evidence-based decision support tools.
  3. 03Apply intervention risk management practices to supplied predictive DSIs and publish summary information about them.
  4. 04Review and update source attributes and risk practices on an ongoing basis from January 1, 2025.
  5. 05Support USCDI version 3 as the baseline data standard for certified modules.
  6. 06Comply with revised information blocking definitions and exceptions in 45 CFR part 171.

02 / In this sector

In a tutor and grader workflow

HTI-1 defines 'predictive decision support intervention' to cover models that learn from training data, which includes machine-learning and generative AI features in certified EHRs. It requires those tools to come with disclosed development, validation, fairness and monitoring details.

Usually asked by

District administrators, school leaders, and student equity teams.

Named alongside

Title VI · FERPA · §504 / IDEA.

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03 / Records

Records to keep

  1. 01Certification to 170.315(b)(11) listed on the Certified Health IT Product List
  2. 02Source attribute records for each supplied DSI
  3. 03Intervention risk management documentation and public summary
  4. 04Records of ongoing attribute review and updates

Optional evidence · where Planisphere fits

Keep a record anyone can check

When your team meets a duty, Planisphere can seal the event it reports as a receipt.

01 · Your teamRecord the event

A disclosure shown, a review signed, a model change approved: the event your system reports.

02 · PlanisphereSeal it

The event becomes a sealed receipt, dated and attributed to whoever is signed in.

03 · AnyoneCheck it

Paste the receipt into Verify. No account or key.

A record supports your compliance evidence process. It is not a legal finding or a certification. Systems that call Planisphere's gate API can also hold or refuse an action before it runs.

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