The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a proposed rule Thursday aimed at improving the electronic exchange of healthcare data among payers, providers and patients. The rule would ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, today finalized its Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: ...

The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on Oct. 29 released a new timeline of compliance dates for certain requirements related to its information-blocking rules. HHS on March 9 ...

The rule aims to free data from silos to promote interoperability between payers and providers. On July 1, a final rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) takes effect, and aims to ...

HHS and CMS’ regulations requiring all healthcare providers and payers to meet interoperability standards will start being enforced on June 30. The rule is the first phase of policies aimed at ...

The health IT arm of the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule this week that federal leaders say will remove red tape and enable faster prior authorization and real-time ...

For hospitals and payer organizations, the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule made January 2022 the deadline to allow patients to access their data. Today, the healthcare industry is kind ...

Healthcare leaders have begun to digest the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's recently proposed HTI-2 interoperability rule, and many have offered their reaction to its various ...

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 ...

Building on the technological foundation of the May 2020 CMS Interoperability and Patient Access final rule (85 FR 25510), these API policies will improve patient, provider, and payer access to ...

As Eden Avraham-Katz, Vice President, Legal and Compliance at 1upHealth explains in this podcast, the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rule helps standardize how health plans and payers ...

In recent months, the word “ransomware” has moved from a topic discussed only among cybersecurity professionals to a term used at dinner tables and water coolers across the country. Simultaneously, in ...