By Patti Barkey – The 21st Century Cures Act (also known simply as the Cures Act), signed into law on December 13, 2016, is bipartisan legislation designed to increase choice and access to electronic health information for patients and providers. Provisions in the law are intended to help accelerate…
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By Mike Berry – The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee plays an important role in ONC activities and objectives. Required by the 21st Century Cures Act, the HITAC has been operational since 2018 and represents a wide range of experts in health IT who inform ONC’s policies and programs.
CMS has opened the data submission period for Merit-based Incentive Payment System eligible clinicians who participated in the 2022 performance year of the Quality Payment Program.
By Andrew Hayden – We are excited to continue a New Year’s tradition at ONC with the release of the annual Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) Reference Edition! The 2023 ISA Reference Edition, the ninth annual publication, reflects more than 150 comments received by ONC during…
By Chris Emper – In the final two months of 2022, CMS released over 5,000 pages of new regulations and the U.S. Congress passed into law a 4,000-plus page omnibus spending bill that had over 1,000 pages of healthcare provisions.
By Chelsea Richwine – Patients have a right of access to their health information under the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Recent policy efforts aim to simplify and increase patient access to electronic health information, as easy access to health information enables patients to monitor…
The $1.7 trillion spending bill for fiscal year 2023 was signed into law. Included were health care provisions. With billions going to healthcare, what are our industry leaders saying about how the money will be spent? We reach out to see what they had to say.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including an upcoming TEFCA webinar, new ONC Standards Bulletin published, & the Draft USCDI v4 is now available.
By Alex Kontur – In 2017 the Health Level Seven® standards development community began exploring the feasibility of standardizing a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® bulk data access application programming interface to facilitate large-scale data transfer between systems.