42 U.S.C. § 300jj–16 — Voluntary application and use of adopted standards and implementation specifications by private entities

(a) In general Except as provided under section 13112 of the HITECH Act (42 U.S.C. 17902), nothing in the HITECH Act, or in the amendments made by that Act, may be read to (1) require a private entity to adopt or comply with a standard or implementation specification adopted under section 300jj-14, or (2) give a federal agency authority - beyond authority that agency already has under other law - to require a private entity to comply with such a standard or implementation specification. (b) Rule of construction Nothing in this part requires a private entity that has a contract with the federal government to apply or use the standards and implementation specifications adopted under section 300jj-14 for activities not related to that contract.