The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in collaboration with standards development organizations and health IT stakeholders, released the Project US@ (‘Project USA’) Technical Specification Final Version 1.0.
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By Jeff Shuren MD JD & William Maisel MD MPH – Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, staff at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health have worked tirelessly to manage unprecedented workload demands to help increase access to high quality, critical products that are essential to our nation’s pandemic response.
Looking at 2022 the HHS reported its regulatory and deregulatory rule proposals for inclusion in the Administrations unified agenda released in December. We take a look at the ONC, CMS, and HRSA agencies under HHS.
CMS is accepting stakeholders’ recommendations regarding potential new specialty measure sets and/or revisions to existing specialty measure sets for the 2023 performance year of MIPS. Recommendations for new specialty sets or revisions to the 2022 specialty sets should be based on the established 2022 MIPS quality measures.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including an ONC Artificial Intelligence Showcase, the ONC2022 Annual Meeting & the ONC Patient Access Summit.
By Jason Ausili PharmD – As interoperability provisions from the Cures Act enter their enforcement phase, pharmacy leaders within the Pharmacy HIT Collaborative, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and pharmacy system vendors, met recently to discuss the state of pharmacy interoperability.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that 15 digital health startups are joining the 2022 PandemicX Accelerator cohort, specifically to address health inequities, create a culture for success, and deploy resources to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Kathryn Marchesini & Michael Lipinski – ONC’s information blocking regulations apply to interferences with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information (EHI) (45 CFR Part 171) and define certain exceptions to the definition of information blocking. Thus, it’s important that those subject to the information blocking regulations –
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, announced the distribution of approximately $9 billion in Provider Relief Fund Phase 4 payments to health care providers who have experienced revenue losses and expenses related to the COVID-19 pandemic.