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The 2024 CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization final rule sets hard compliance deadlines for payers to implement FHIR APIs that streamline prior authorization and cross-payer data exchange — with a key HIPAA carve-out clearing the path. CMS released the 2024 Interoperability and Prior...
Health-ISAC's CSO warns that even espionage-motivated intrusions into medical research institutions carry serious downstream security risks for the broader healthcare sector. A report analyzed by Health-ISAC links a sophisticated China-nexus threat group to a sustained, multiyear espionage...
As CMS's LEAD model extends value-based care timelines, health systems that lack real-time post-acute data will find themselves structurally disadvantaged on cost and quality performance. CMS's LEAD (Longitudinal Episode-based Alternative Payment) model reshapes how accountable care organizations...
ONC's certification framework — the gatekeeper for federally recognized health IT — is updating criteria, surveillance rules, and standards versioning processes that every EHR and API developer must track. The ONC Health IT Certification Program is the federal mechanism through which health...
A VA OIG review found that the Department of Veterans Affairs lacks adequate oversight controls over how employees use generative AI chat tools — raising privacy and security concerns for veteran health data. The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published a review identifying significant...
Repeal efforts are underway, but experts aren't convinced Democrats have the votes or leverage to undo the controversial payment model. Congressional Democrats are seeking to repeal the WISeR (Work Incentives Support and Engagement in Recovery) model, a CMS payment initiative that has drawn...