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The agency is formalizing its ambitions in health-IT modernization by creating a dedicated organizational unit to lead interoperability initiatives and digital product development. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a new health technology office designed to...
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's approach to centralizing and digitizing reference medical policies into reusable FHIR Questionnaires offers a concrete playbook for payers and vendors scaling prior authorization under Da Vinci DTR. The HL7 Da Vinci Project's June 2026 Community Roundtable...
A new designated expert role for information blocking enforcement has arrived with no clear definition of qualifications, scope, or process — including from the expert themselves. ONC has established a formal "Information Blocking Expert" designation under the information blocking framework, but...
A new integrative review maps the legal, technical, and governance barriers to deploying granular, revocable patient consent for secondary health data use across Europe — and proposes a three-stage architecture to address them. Secondary use of health data — for research, innovation, and public...
A new CMS organizational unit consolidates the agency's health-IT standards agenda under a chief product officer, ending the fragmented command structure that long complicated interoperability policy execution. CMS has established the Office of Health Technology and Products (OHTP) , a structural...
DirectTrust's submission signals the health-IT trust community's stake in how CMS shapes FHIR-based prior authorization and interoperability standards for drugs. DirectTrust submitted formal comments to HHS and CMS on the Interoperability Standards and Prior Authorization for Drugs Proposed Rule...
As AI systems consume clinical data across organizations, syntactic interoperability alone fails to preserve meaning — a shared semantic layer is now a prerequisite, not a nice-to-have. In a MedCity News opinion piece, Hamid Tabatabaie argues that the healthcare industry's hard-won...
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