Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Wednesday, September 16
CMS is widening its bet on technology-supported chronic care—and the implementation burden is about to get real.
Interoperability
Interoperability analysis covering health data exchange, APIs, FHIR, TEFCA, information blocking, EHR certification, standards adoption, and payer-provider connectivity. Focused on making health information usable, secure, and available when needed to support patient care, reduce burden, and improve system performance.
Privacy and Security
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Monday, September 14
ONC has published USCDI Version 7, adding 31 data elements and expanding the federal vocabulary around patient safety, nutrition care, and other clinical…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Thursday, September 3
Today’s actionable work sits one layer below rulemaking: ONC has put terminology infrastructure into public hands, while HL7 has put a short…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Tuesday, September 1
CMS’s Prior Authorization API FAQ, modified August 31, now clarifies how decision clocks, later documentation requests, and Coverage Requirements…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Wednesday, August 19
No fresh development cleared today’s changed-state, primary-source evidence, and Action Card gates; this is a genuinely slow federal health-policy morning.
Interoperability
ONC moves to formalize how TEFCA hears from its exchange networks
TEFCA may be getting a more official listening post.
Privacy and Security
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Monday, August 17
HHS telegraphs HTI-6, but has not released a rule.
Interoperability
ONC seeks a new feedback loop for TEFCA’s growing exchange network
The federal health-information-exchange framework known as TEFCA may be getting a more formal listening post.
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Friday, August 14
An ONC-backed study gives physician-burden advocates a useful reality check on electronic prior authorization.
Health IT Certification
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Thursday, August 13
CMS says it could not disburse the 1.88% APM incentive to certain clinicians who qualified based on 2024 performance because it lacks current Medicare…
AI Governance
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Wednesday, August 12
CMS has finalized a rule barring federal Medicaid matching funds for specified gender-affirming procedures for beneficiaries under 18 and federal CHIP…
Interoperability
HEALTH POLICY BRIEF — Friday, August 7
Today’s useful movement is in interoperability standards, not federal rulemaking.