Under a final rule released today, impacted payers will be required to send prior authorization decisions within 72 hours for urgent requests and seven calendar days for standard requests. The Centers ...

CMS is searching for an informatics expert to serve as chief health informatics officer and lead interoperability efforts among several federal agencies, according to a recent job posting. The ...

More than half of providers and 43% of payers have yet to start work on the application programming interface requirements of the interoperability and prior authorization final rule, according to a ...

The past decade has witnessed an unprecedented and rapid pace of federal policy making intended to achieve interoperability of core electronic health record (EHR) data. This movement began in 2009 ...

CMS finalized changes to the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program for hospitals demonstrating meaningful use of certified EHRs in the 2024 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System final ...

As a longtime advocate for interoperability standards, Premier "strongly support proposals that support electronic health record interoperability and patient access to health information, as well as ...

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has finalized a series of new rules related to the use of technology for electronic prescribing and prior authorization. In the rules, the Assistant ...

A number of federal agencies, including the Secret Service and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are still working to become interoperable with FOIA.gov — a hiccup in the slow-going effort to ...

Government IT is marred by technical lock-in and restrictive contracts that generate waste and slow innovation. Bundled licensing, for example, packaging multiple products, solutions or services into ...