Part II: The HTI-5 Deregulation Rule Just Told EHR Vendors That AI Agents Count as Users Under Information Blocking, and Here Is the Startup Map for What Gets Built on Top of That

HTI-5 just told every EHR vendor: you can no longer claim a bot is not a covered user under information blocking. Autonomous AI systems are explicitly named in the rule.

The rule also deletes the condition that let vendors refuse third-party write-back requests as infeasible. That condition was the universal justification for keeping AI out of the chart.

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