The Hospital Quality Reporting System is now open and accepting calendar year 2024 Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program data submissions and attestations from eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals.
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The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategic Plan is setting a vision for how AI can revolutionize health care, human services, and public health. Read the Strategic Plan.
From the Health IT Buzz Blog – Health information exchange organizations (HIOs) are networks that enable the electronic exchange of health information across participating health care providers, public health agencies, payers, and other entities.
By Courtney Breece – The Medicare landscape is poised for significant changes with the release of proposed rules from the CMS in November, set to impact contract year 2026, aimimg to reshape key elements of Medicare Advantage, Medicare Prescription Drug Programs, and other Medicare services.
CMS has published the updated 2025 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture Category III Implementation Guide, Schematron, and Sample Files for Eligible Clinician Programs based on the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule released on November 1, 2024.
By Avinash Shanbhag – In this post we outline specific compliance areas associated with API registration that require developers’ attention to support an API user’s ability to utilize a third-party application to access EHI without special effort.
By Steven Posnack – It’s that time of the year when we all close out annual processes. In this case, we at the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy through the hard work of our Office of the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer are pleased to let you know that HHS’ 2024 AI Use Case Inventory is available for review.
By Buff Colchagoff – The reindeer had a choice: join Santa now or wait to see if the idea took off. It’s not unlike the decision healthcare organizations face today: whether to join TEFCA and a QHIN now or adopt a wait-and-see approach. Both scenarios offer compelling reasons to leap early rather than lag behind. Let’s take a closer look through a Christmas lens.
By Erin Little – ASTP has taken your valuable feedback and we are proud to unveil the newly redesigned Standards Implementation & Testing Environment (SITE)—your all-in-one testing hub for the ONC Health IT Certification Program (Certification Program).