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 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 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: ...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has assembled a cross-functional team to help ensure the Nashville, Tenn.-based health system is prepared to comply with HHS’ new interoperability rules Nov. 1.

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 ...

A large portion of payers and providers have not started or are partially through implementing CMS API requirements, with compliance due by January 1, 2027. Key challenges include funding, developing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...