ONC’s proposed interoperability rules will require the healthcare industry to adopt standardized application programming interfaces to allow patients to access their medical records via smartphone ...

As the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S., CMS is evaluating the timeline for its final interoperability rule that was released earlier this month. 1. The Health Information ...

The Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability rule, or HTI-2, doesn’t feature a number of provisions included in the ...

New litigation and federal government policy statements demonstrate the ever-evolving nature of the health information ...

Many payers, providers unprepared for interoperability and prior authorization rule, WEDI finds Starting Jan. 1, 2026, payers must send prior authorization decisions within 7 days and expedited ...

The goal of the interoperability rules is to move the healthcare system from an environment built by providers and payers to one in which patients are in control, according to Dr. Don Rucker, head of ...

At first glance, the rule doesn’t meet MGMA’s definition of administrative simplification." Meanwhile, the American Medical Group Association said it too was disappointed by the proposed rules' high ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC), has released a ...

CMS has finalized a 2.6% payment increase for inpatient services, boosted DSH payments, established new interoperability rules for prior authorization, and confirmed the launch of a controversial ...

When the Office of the Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) was established in 2004, the health information technology (IT) landscape was relatively bare. Few hospitals and providers ...